Chats on Old Furniture: A Practical Guide for Collectors

Hayden , Arthur

T. Fisher Unwin, 1913

Bound in publisher's brown cloth, with gilt vignette of an antique table and chair on front. Hardcover. Good binding and cover. Bottom corner has a small persistent stain. 283 pages : illustrations, plates, frontispiece ; 21 cm. 

Contents:The renaissance on the continent; The English renaissance; Stuart or Jacobean (seventeenth century); Stuart or Jacobean (late seventeenth century); Queen Anne style; French furniture. The period of Louis XIV; French furniture. The period of Louis XV; French furniture. The period of Louis XVI; French furniture. The first empire style; Chippendale and his style; Sheraton, Adam, and the Heppelwhite styles; Hints to collectors