The practical cabinet maker and furniture designer's assistant : with essays on history of furniture, taste in design, color and materials, with full explanation of the canons of good taste in furniture ... (1910)
Hodgson, Fred. T. (Frederick Thomas), 1836-1919 · Chicago : F.J. Drake · leaf 151
151 THE PRACTICAL CABINET MAKER that it required a special attendant to guard this little specimen, so many were crowding round to inspect it. … It was literally mobbed as I tried to get a glimpse of it for my note book, and the adjectives showered upon n by the upper ten were the most expressive I have ever heard applied to furniture. It was oblong in shape, with a drawer fitted with inkstand, writing-slide, and shelf beneath an oval…
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