The Practical Book of Period Furniture: Treating of Furniture of the English, American Colonial and Post-Colonial and Principal French Periods
- Author(s): Harold Donaldson Eberlein and Abbot McClure
- Category: Furniture & Furnishings
- Publisher: Philadelphia: Lippincott
- Publish year: 1914
- ISBN: 9678000001115
- Number of Pages: 508
Every book ought to have a definite reason for its being. In the present instance that reason is that hitherto there has never been a book of brief compass and succinct arrangement for ready reference to tell the reader what he wished to know and all that he needed to know in order to identify and classify any piece of period furniture, whether original or a repro- duction, that he might own or intend to buy. The Illus- trated Chronological Key at the beginning of the book is of inestimable value in showing at a glance the dominant characteristics of each period style. For the idea and plan of this Key the authors are wholly indebted to Edward Stratton Holloway, Esq., of the J. B. Lippincott Company,
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THE PRACTICAL BOOK OF PERIOD FURNITURE
FOREWORD
CONTENTS
ILLUSTRATIONS
ILLUSTRATED CHRONOLOGICAL KEY
CHAPTER I INTRODUCTORY
CHAPTER II JACOBEAN PERIOD 1603-1688
CHAPTER III WILLIAM AND MARY 1688-1702
CHAPTER IV QUEEN ANNE AND EARLY GEORGIAN 1702-1750
CHAPTER V LOUIS QUATORZE AND LOUIS QUINZE
CHAPTER VI CHIPPENDALE c. 1705--1779
CHAPTER VII THE BROTHERS ADAM c. 1762 - c. 1792
CHAPTER VIII GEORGE HEPPLEWHITE 17? - 1786
CHAPTER IX LOUIS SEIZE 1774-1793
CHAPTER X THOMAS SHERATON 1750-1806
CHAPTER XI THE OTHER GEORGIAN MAKERS AND DESIGNERS
CHAPTER XII THE EMPIRE PERIOD French and English 1793-1830
CHAPTER XIII AMERICAN EMPIRE c. 1795-1830
CHAPTER XIV OTHER AMERICAN FURNITURE
CHAPTER XV PAINTED FURNITURE
CHAPTER XVI ADVICE TO BUYERS AND COLLECTORS
CHAPTER XVII FURNISHING AND ARRANGEMENT
GLOSSARY
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX