Frances Clary Morse

Contents

List of Illustrations

Furniture of the Olden Time

CHAPTER I

CHAPTER II

CHAPTER III

CHAPTER IV

CHAPTER V

CHAPTER VI

CHAPTER VII

CHAPTER VIII

CHAPTER IX

CHAPTER X

CHAPTER XI

CHAPTER XII

CHAPTER XIII

GLOSSARY OF TERMS USED IN CABINET WORK

INDEX OF THE OWNERS OF FURNITURE

GENERAL INDEX

TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES:

—Obvious print and punctuation errors were corrected.

—Illustration can be relocated if necessary for project’s graphic needings.

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FURNITURE
OF THE OLDEN TIME

BY
FRANCES CLARY MORSE

NEW EDITION
With a New Chapter and Many New Illustrations

“How much more agreeable it is to sit in the midst of old furniture like Minott’s clock, and secretary and looking-glass, which have come down from other generations, than amid that which was just brought from the cabinet-maker’s, smelling of varnish, like a coffin! To sit under the face of an old clock that has been ticking one hundred and fifty years—there is something mortal, not to say immortal, about it; a clock that begun to tick when Massachusetts was a province.”

H. D. Thoreau, “Autumn.”

New York
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
1926
All rights reserved

Copyright, 1902 and 1917,
By THE MACMILLAN COMPANY.

Set up and electrotyped November, 1902. Reprinted April, 1903;
July, 1905; February, 1908; September, 1910; September, 1913.

New edition, with a new chapter and new illustrations, December, 1917.

Norwood Press
J. S. Cushing Co.—Berwick & Smith Co.
Norwood, Mass., U.S.A.

To my Sister
ALICE MORSE EARLE