A book of this nature, a Treasury of Designs, by Batty and Thomas Langley, was published in 1740 and is useful in so far as it provides some guide to fashionable taste at the 1920 sheraton card table time. the kidney shaped couch Palladian influence was still strong, but waning. the antique railway clocks value [...]

BOOKCASES — large
Bookcases fall into two main types, both the result of the requirements of the rich. The first from the eighteenth and early nineteenth century are floor to ceiling; the small very late eighteenth and nineteenth century examples were bought to preserve wall space for pictures — and even more expensive decoration.
Bookcases have been [...]