Modern dwellings in town and country adapted to American wants and climate with a treatise on furniture and decoration (1878)
Holly, Henry Hudson, 1834-1892 · New York, Harper & brothers, publishers · leaf 112
First-floor Plau of Design No. 10. LIBRARY. 107 CHAPTER XVII. LIBRARY. Nooks and Cubby-holes. PROBABLY the library, more than any other room in a house, reflectsthe master mind of the household. One person regards this apart-ment as simply a place in which to read newspapers, write letters, and … The Library, in Desigu No. 16. keep slippers and dressing-gown. Anothers idea is that it is like a mu-seum for bric-a-brac, with showy bookcases and ample shelving for books,purchased by the yard, selected according to their backs. The real libra-ry is, of course, that in which the style and…
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