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The open fireplace in all ages (1886)

Putnam, J. Pickering (John Pickering), 1847-1917 · Boston, Ticknor and Co. · leaf 54

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ree be obtained by this means, since it would / // /•; O VEN FIR ElL A C£. 21 be necessary for the purpose to give up chairs and warm ones selfstanding up. I shall endeavor to show in the next chapter in what way these large,old-fashioned chimneys may be constructed, either with or without thehood,… … Fig. 15. Fireplace in House of Jaques Coeur, Bourges. piled on andirons, and the smoke escaped through the louvre on the roof.Major J. S. Campion, an English traveller, gives the following descriptionof a Spanish kitchen fireplace, showing that this rude form even nowexists: ki Almost in the middle…

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