This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1913 edition. Excerpt: ... lower back and the sculptured panel is of approximately the same date as the bedstead or a little earlier. There is a good mantel clock in the room, a piece when of this merit and of this style, rarer than even the tall clocks built for stairway or kitchen. R. Sturgis. Mahogany Case Of Drawers.. ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1913 edition. Excerpt: ... lower back and the sculptured panel is of approximately the same date as the bedstead or a little earlier. There is a good mantel clock in the room, a piece when of this merit and of this style, rarer than even the tall clocks built for stairway or kitchen. R. Sturgis. Mahogany Case Of Drawers.. Facing 384 Mahogany Card Table... Facing 384 This is a solid and handsome table. It will be noticed that it has five legs, one of which pulls out to support the flap. This is evidently not a very unusual feature since an identi-cal specimen appears on page 309. E. S. Chair Used By John Adams....?8r / w/ w This is said to have been used by John Adams and is, therefore, Interesting as showing how long the old fashions survived in some of the New England homes. The model, of course, belongs to the seventeenth century and has already been fully discussed. Mr. Adams was a pronounced enemy to fashion and luxury. . S. Harpsichord..... Facing 385 harpsichord or spinet. It is urged elsewhere that great opportunities seemed offered the designer of such pieces, those opportunities being all lost when the much more ponderous piano came in with its generally four-square case and heavy legs. It is still the ideal way of designing a piano to treat its box--that which contains the heavy string-board and which a opened up by the key-board--to treat that by itself and to set it upon a supporting frame of corresponding design indeed, but not lost in the one general conception. It makes a practised designer envious to see what opportunities for making a pretty and delicate piece of furniture were held by the makers of the eighteenth century clavichords. R. Sturgis. Six-legged High Case Of Drawers. Facing 390 A tall-boy of design not unlike that shown in the...
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Add this copy of The Furniture of Our Forefathers to cart. $18.00, poor condition, Sold by Between the Covers-Rare Books rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Gloucester City, NJ, UNITED STATES, published 1901 by Doubleday.
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Poor. Volume one only. Please Note: This book has been transferred to Between the Covers from another database and might not be described to our usual standards. Please inquire for more detailed condition information.
Add this copy of The Furniture of Our Forefathers: Complete in One to cart. $22.00, good condition, Sold by Crabtree's Collection rated 3.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Sebago, ME, UNITED STATES, published 1913 by Doubleday Page.
Add this copy of The Furniture of Our Forefathers. With Critical to cart. $26.60, very good condition, Sold by Lawrence Jones rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Nobby Beach, QLD, AUSTRALIA, published 1913 by Doubleday, Page & Company.
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Very Good. 8vo. xii, 664 pages, illustrated throughout with b/w photos, line drawings, index. Small book shop stamp on the front flyleaf, short (2.5 cm) tear at the front hinge. There is a tanned stain on the fore-edge. Page edges lightly foxed. Decorative cloth boards. The book's sections cover: Early Southern; Later Southern; Early New England; Dutch and English Periods, New York from 1615-1776; New England from 1700 to 1776; Chippendale and other great cabinet-makers of the 18th century; Domestic and imported furniture from 1776-1830; and Woods, upholstery and styles of the early 19th century.
Add this copy of The Furniture of Our Forefathers Part II With Critical to cart. $32.00, good condition, Sold by The Avocado Pit rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Staunton, VA, UNITED STATES, published 1901 by Doubleday, Page and Company.
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Good+ Of this edition de luxe there have been printed, for sale, fifty copies on Imperial Japan paper of which this copy Is No. Sample. Darkening to the covers with small splits to the edges. Owner's name and address printed twise on the first endpaper.; 4to 11"-13" tall; 79-152 pages; Extra postage required for priority and international shipping.
Add this copy of The Furniture of Our Forefathers to cart. $40.00, good condition, Sold by Second Life Books Inc. rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Lanesborough, MA, UNITED STATES, published 1913 by Doubleday, Page.
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8vo, pp. xii, 664. Index. Copiously illustrated, with notes on illustrations by Russell Sturgis. Khaki cloth, stamped in black. Owner's name and addresses on pastedown. Hinges tender, cover bumped and little worn at edges, o/w VG.
Add this copy of The Furniture of Our Forefathers to cart. $96.75, fair condition, Sold by Solomon's Mine Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Howard, PA, UNITED STATES, published 1900 by Doubleday, Page and Co.
Add this copy of The Furniture of Our Forefathers Volumes I & II to cart. $100.00, poor condition, Sold by Ken's Book Haven rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Coopersburg, PA, UNITED STATES, published 1900 by Doubleday.
Add this copy of The Furniture of Our Forefathers to cart. $295.00, very good condition, Sold by DogStar Books rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Lancaster, PA, UNITED STATES, published 1900 by Doubleday, Page & Company.
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Very Good. Very good. No dust jacket as issued.; 8 pt., illus., plates. 26 cm. Includes Illustrations.; 1900-01 Doubleday Page. Issued in 8 parts in printed decorative paper wraps. 1st edition. Complete. All 8 volumes sound and clean; vols 5 & 7 with mild chipping to covers at base of spine. Prior owner has fashioned a crude but effective heavy card slipcase. Wraps here and there a touch faded at edge and a little rubbed and crimped where they extend past the edge of the page blcok. Some page edges unopened at top edge. Fore edge untrimmed. Copiously illustrated with hundreds of lush photographic plates. Solid and generally quite neat. Scarce in the 1st edition. About VG.
