TY - GEN AU - Gilbert, Christopher TI - English vernacular furniture, 1750-1900 SN - 0300047622 U1 - 749.22 PY - 1991/// CY - London PB - Yale University Press N2 - 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 ER -