Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 233
ND STOOL. ledge is preferred. If desired, the main shelfmay be made two or three inches wider to ac-commodate a large book, such as a dictionary oran atlas. The stool is twelve inches square andtwenty-two inches high, and the top is coveredwith a stout square of leather caught all aroundthe edges… … six inches in width, but thirty inches will befound a desirable size. The writing-ledge isthirty inches above the floor, and to the frontedge of it a drop-ledge of the proper width isattached with hinges let into the wood on thetop when the ledge is let down. The width ofthe ledge is made according…
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