Beeton's housewife's treasury of domestic information : comprising complete and practical instructions on the house and its furniture, artistic decoration economy, toilet, children, etiquette, domestic and fancy needlework, dressmaking and millinery, and all other household matters : with every requisite direction to secure the comfort, elegance, and prosperity of the home : a companion volume to "Mrs. Beeton's book of household management" : profusely illustrated (1879)
Beeton, Mrs. (Isabella Mary), 1836-1865 · London ; New York : Ward, Lock & Co., Warwick House, Salisbury Square, E.C. · leaf 288
nts in the proper form, are thenplaced according to the design,and fixed on paper; afterwardsthey are applied, like veneer, to inlaid cabinet. the piece of furniture ; being mounted, they are cleaned off and slightlypolished, and the finer lines are then engraved. The manufacture ofboule, or buhl,… … S80. FITNESS IN FURNITURE. The adaptation of all objects of artmanufacture to the purposes for which they are designed, should formthe basis for all forms and proportions in such objects. Alison, in his Essay on Taste, says : I apprehend that the beauty of proportionsin forms is to be ascribed to…
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