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COMPANION VOLUME BY THE SAME AUTHOR

CHATS ON OLD FURNITURE

_Illustrated by 72 Full-page Plates._


CONTENTS

    CHAPTER
       I. THE RENAISSANCE ON THE CONTINENT
      II. THE ENGLISH RENAISSANCE
     III. STUART OR JACOBEAN (Early Seventeenth Century)
      IV. STUART OR JACOBEAN (Late Seventeenth Century)
       V. QUEEN ANNE AND EARLY GEORGIAN STYLES
      VI. FRENCH FURNITURE: THE PERIOD OF LOUIS XIV.
     VII. FRENCH FURNITURE: THE PERIOD OF LOUIS XV.
    VIII. FRENCH FURNITURE: THE PERIOD OF LOUIS XVI.
      IX. FRENCH FURNITURE: THE FIRST EMPIRE STYLE
       X. CHIPPENDALE AND HIS STYLE
      XI. ADAM, HEPPLEWHITE, AND SHERATON STYLES
     XII. HINTS TO COLLECTORS




    CHATS ON
    COTTAGE AND
    FARMHOUSE FURNITURE




BOOKS FOR COLLECTORS

_With  Frontispieces and many Illustrations._

_Large Crown 8vo, cloth._


   CHATS ON ENGLISH CHINA.

    By ARTHUR HAYDEN.

   CHATS ON OLD FURNITURE.

    By ARTHUR HAYDEN.

   CHATS ON OLD PRINTS.

    By ARTHUR HAYDEN.

   CHATS ON COSTUME.

    By G. WOOLLISCROFT RHEAD.

   CHATS ON OLD LACE AND NEEDLEWORK.

    By E. L. LOWES.

   CHATS ON ORIENTAL CHINA.

    By J. F. BLACKER.

   CHATS ON MINIATURES.

    By J. J. FOSTER.

   CHATS ON ENGLISH EARTHENWARE.

    By ARTHUR HAYDEN.

    (Companion Volume to "Chats on English China.")

   CHATS ON AUTOGRAPHS.

    By A. M. BROADLEY.

   CHATS ON OLD PEWTER.

    By H. J. L. J. MASSE, M.A.

   CHATS ON POSTAGE STAMPS.

    By FRED J. MELVILLE.

   CHATS ON OLD JEWELLERY AND TRINKETS.

    By MACIVER PERCIVAL.

   CHATS ON COTTAGE AND FARMHOUSE FURNITURE.

    By ARTHUR HAYDEN.

    (Companion Volume to "Chats on Old Furniture.")


    LONDON: T. FISHER UNWIN.
    NEW YORK: F. A. STOKES COMPANY.




  [Illustration: SIDEBOARD OF CARVED OAK. ENGLISH, SEVENTEENTH
  CENTURY.

  (_In the Victoria and Albert Museum._)

    _Frontispiece._]




    CHATS ON COTTAGE

    AND

    FARMHOUSE FURNITURE

    BY

    ARTHUR HAYDEN

    AUTHOR OF "CHATS ON OLD FURNITURE," ETC.

    WITH A CHAPTER ON

    OLD ENGLISH CHINTZES

    BY HUGH PHILLIPS

    AND SEVENTY-THREE FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS

    NEW YORK

    FREDERICK A. STOKES COMPANY

    PUBLISHERS




(_All rights reserved._)




    TO
    MY OLD FRIEND
    FREDERIC ARUP
    I DEDICATE THIS VOLUME
    IN MEMORY OF A HAPPY LABOUR
    OF LOVE COMPLETED




PREFACE


The number of works dealing with old English furniture has grown
rapidly during the last ten years. Not only has the subject been
broadly treated from the historic or from the collector's point
of view, but latterly everything has been scientifically reduced
into departments of knowledge, and individual periods have received
detailed treatment at the hands of specialists.

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