Chapter III: Preface: 7

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS 13

BIBLIOGRAPHY 19

GLOSSARY OF TERMS USED 23

CHAPTER

I. THE RENAISSANCE ON THE CONTINENT 31

II. THE ENGLISH RENAISSANCE 57

III. STUART OR JACOBEAN (SEVENTEENTH CENTURY) 79

IV. STUART OR JACOBEAN (LATE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY) 109

V. QUEEN ANNE STYLE 133

VI. FRENCH FURNITURE. THE PERIOD OF LOUIS XIV. 155

VII. FRENCH FURNITURE. THE PERIOD OF LOUIS XV. 169

VIII. FRENCH FURNITURE. THE PERIOD OF LOUIS XVI. 189

IX. FRENCH FURNITURE. THE FIRST EMPIRE STYLE 201

X. CHIPPENDALE AND HIS STYLE 211

XI. SHERATON, ADAM, AND HEPPELWHITE STYLES 239

XII. HINTS TO COLLECTORS 257

INDEX 275

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

JACOBEAN OAK CABINET; decorated with mother-of-pearl, ebony, and ivory. Dated 1653. (By permission of the Board of Education) _Frontispiece_

CARVED WOOD FRAME; decorated with gold stucco. Sixteenth Century. Italian _Title page_

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