in Great Britain.
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| CHAPTER II |
| SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY STYLES |
43 |
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Typical Jacobean furniture—Solidity of English joiners' work—Oak general in its use—The oak forests of England—Sturdy independence of country furniture—Chests of drawers—The slow assimilation of foreign styles—The changing habits of the people. |
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| CHAPTER III |
| THE GATE-LEG TABLE |
83 |
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Its early form—Transitional and experimental stages—Its establishment as a permanent popular type—The gate-leg table in the Jacobean period—Walnut and mahogany varieties—Its utility and beauty contribute to its long survival—Its adoption in modern days. |
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| CHAPTER IV |
| THE FARMHOUSE DRESSER |
113 |
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The days of the late Stuarts—Its early table form with drawers—The decorated type with shelves—William and Mary style with double cupboards—The Queen Anne cabriole leg—Mid-eighteenth-century types. |
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| CHAPTER V |
THE BIBLE-BOX, THE CRADLE, THE SPINNING-WHEEL,
AND THE BACON-CUPBOARD |
137 |
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The Puritan days of the seventeenth century—The Protestant Bible in every home—The variety of carving found in Bible-boxes—The Jacobean cradle and its forms—The spinning-wheel—The bacon-cupboard. |
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| CHAPTER VI |
| EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY STYLES |
155 |
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The advent of the cabriole leg—The so-called Queen Anne style—The survival of oak in the provinces—The influence of walnut on cabinet-making—The early-Georgian types—Chippendale and his contemporaries. |
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| CHAPTER VII |
| THE EVOLUTION OF THE CHAIR |
189 |
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Early days—The typical Jacobean oak chair—The evolution of the stretcher—The chair-back and its development—Transition between Jacobean and William and Mary forms—Farmhouse styles contemporary with the cane-back chair—The Queen Anne splat—Country Chippendale, Hepplewhite, and Sheraton—The grandfather chair—Ladder-back types—The spindle-back chair—Corner chairs. |
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| CHAPTER VIII |
| THE WINDSOR CHAIR |
243 |
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Early types—The stick legs without stretcher—The tavern chair—Eighteenth-century pleasure gardens—The rail-back variety—Chippendale style Windsor chairs—The survival of the Windsor chair. |
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| CHAPTER IX |
| LOCAL TYPES |
265 |
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Welsh carving—Scottish types—Lancashire dressers, wardrobes, and chairs—Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire, Cambridge, and Essex tables—Isle of Man tables. |
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| CHAPTER X |
| MISCELLANEOUS IRONWORK, ETC. |
285 |
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The rushlight-holder—The dipper—The chimney crane—The Scottish crusie—Firedogs—The warming-pan—Sussex firebacks—Grandfather clocks. |
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| CHAPTER XI |
| OLD ENGLISH CHINTZES. (By Hugh Phillips) |
315 |
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The charm of old English chintz—Huguenot cloth-printers settle in England—Jacob Stampe at the sign of the Calico Printer—The Queen Anne period—The Chippendale period—The age of machinery. |
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| INDEX |
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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
