English vernacular furniture, 1750-1900
Publication details: 1991 Yale University Press LondonDescription: viii,294pISBN:- 0300047622
- 749.22 GIL
Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Notes | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Book | CEPT Library | Faculty of Design | 749.22 GIL | Available | Bill No.IN98 Dt.18/07/2014 ($100) | 012902 |
Contents
Preface Introduction
1 Traditional Crafts and Native Timbers
2 Country Joiners
3 Provincial Price Books
4 Farmhouses and Cottages
5 Urban Working-Class Homes
6 Back-stairs Furniture
7 Alehouses, Inns and Taverns
8 Regional Chairmaking Traditions
9 Regional Beds
10 Straw and Wicker Furniture
11 Schools
12 Workhouses
13 Houses of Correction, Bridewells and Prisons
14 Lunatic Asylums and Hospitals
15 Almshouses
16 Meeting Houses and Chapels
17 Factories and Workshops
18 Offices and Shops
19 Railway Premises
20 Army Barracks and Campaign Furniture
21 Bothies, Chaumers and Mine Shops
22 Ships
23 Caravans, Narrowboats and Living-Vans
24 Children's Furniture
25 Cricket and Tennis
26 Ducking Stools
Appendix One Bibliography of Provincial Price Books
Appendix Two The Bolton Supplement to the
London Book of Cabinet Piece Prices (1802)
Appendix Three The Wycombe Chairmakers' List of Prices (1872)
Glossary
Notes
Select Bibliography
Index
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