CHAPTER XII.--HINTS TO COLLECTORS.

DESIGN FOR SPURIOUS MARQUETRY WORK 259

"MADE-UP" BUFFET 261

CABINET OF OLD OAK, "made-up" 267

DESIGN FOR SPURIOUS MARQUETRY WORK 273

PIECE OF SPANISH CHESTNUT, showing ravages of worms 274

BIBLIOGRAPHY

GENERAL.

Ancient Furniture, Specimens of. H. Shaw. Quaritch. 1836. L10 10s., now worth L3 3s.

Ancient and Modern Furniture. B. J. Talbert. Batsford. 1876. 32s.

Antique Furniture, Sketches of. W. S. Ogden. Batsford. 1889. 12s. 6d.

Carved Furniture and Woodwork. M. Marshall. W. H. Allen. 1888. L3.

Carved Oak in Woodwork and Furniture from Ancient Houses. W. B. Sanders. 1883. 31s. 6d.

Decorative Furniture, English and French, of the Sixteenth, Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries. W. H. Hackett. 7s. 6d.

Ecclesiastical Woodwork, Remains of. T. T. Bury. Lockwood. 1847. 21s.

French and English Furniture. E. Singleton. Hodder. 1904.

Furniture, Ancient and Modern. J. W. Small. Batsford. 1883. 21s.

Furniture and Decoration. J. A. Heaton. 1890-92.

Furniture and Woodwork, Ancient and Modern. J. H. Pollen. Chapman. 1874-5. 21s. and 2s. 6d.

Furniture and Woodwork. J. H. Pollen. Stanford. 1876. 3s. 6d.

Furniture of the Olden Time. F. C. Morse. Macmillan. 12s. 6d.

Gothic Furniture, _Connoisseur_. May, 1903.

History of Furniture Illustrated. F. Litchfield. Truslove. 25s.

Marquetry, Parquetry, Boulle and other Inlay Work. W. Bemrose. 1872 and 1882.

Old Furniture, English and Foreign. A. E. Chancellor. Batsford. L1 5s.

Old Furniture from Twelfth to Eighteenth Century. Wyman. 1883. 10s. 6d.

Style in Furniture and Woodwork. R. Brook. Privately printed. 1889. 21s.

PARTICULAR.

ENGLISH.--Adam R. & J., The Architecture, Decoration an Furniture of R. & J. Adam, selected from works published 1778-1822. London. 1880.

Adam, The Brothers. _Connoisseur._ May, June and August, 1904.

Ancient Wood and Iron Work in Cambridge. W. B. Redfern. Spalding. 1887. 31s. 6d.

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Chippendale and His Work. _Connoisseur_, January, July, August, September, October, November, December, 1903, January, 1904.

Chippendale, Sheraton and Heppelwhite, The Designs of. Arranged by J. M. Bell. 1900. Worth L2 2s.

Chippendale's Contemporaries. _Connoisseur_, March, 1904.

Chippendale and Sheraton. _Connoisseur_, May, 1902.

Coffers and Cupboards, Ancient. Fred Roe. Methuen & Co. 1903. L3 3s.

English Furniture, History of. Percy Macquoid. Published by Lawrence & Bullen in 7s. 6d. parts, the first of which appeared in November, 1904.

English Furniture and Woodwork during the Eighteenth Century. T. A. Strange. 12s. 6d.

Furniture of our Forefathers. E. Singleton. Batsford. L3 15s.

Hatfield House, History of. Q. F. Robinson. 1883.

Hardwicke Hall, History of. Q. F. Robinson. 1835.

Heppelwhite, A., Cabinet Maker. Published 1788, 1789, and 1794, and contains about 130 plates. Value L8 to L12. Reprint issued in 1897. Worth L2 10s.

Ince and Mayhew. Household Furniture. N.d. (1770). Worth L20.

Jacobean Furniture. _Connoisseur_, September, 1902.

Knole House, Its State Rooms, &c. (Elizabethan and other Furniture.) S. J. Mackie. 1858.

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Old English Houses and Furniture. M. B. Adam. Batsford. 1889. 25s.

Old English Oak Furniture. J. W. Hurrell. Batsford. L2 2s.

Old English Furniture. Frederick Fenn and B. Wyllie. Newnes. 7s. 6d. net.

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Sheraton, T. Cabinet Maker's Drawing Book. 1791-3 edition contains 111 plates. Value L13. 1794 edition contains 119 plates. Value L10.

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Staircases and Handrails of the Age of Elizabeth. J. Weale. 1860.

Upholsterer's Repository. Ackermann. N.d. Worth L5.

FRENCH.--_Dictionnaire de l'Ameublement._ H. Havard. Paris. N.d. Worth L5.

_Dictionnaire Raisonne._ M. Viollet-le-Duc. 1858-75. 6 vols. Worth L10.

French Furniture. Lady Dilke. Bell. 1901.

French Eighteenth Century Furniture, Handbook to the. Jones Collection Catalogue. 1881.

French Eighteenth Century Furniture, Handbook to the. Wallace Collection Catalogue. 1904.

History of Furniture. A. Jacquemart. Chapman. 1878. 31s. 6d. Issued in Paris in 1876, under the title _Histoire du Mobilier_.

_Le Meuble en France au XVI Siecle._ E. Bonnaffe. Paris. 1887. Worth 10s.

JAPANESE.--Lacquer Industry of Japan. Report of Her Majesty's Acting-Consul at Hakodate. J. J. Quin. Parliamentary Paper. 8vo. London. 1882.

SCOTTISH.--Scottish Woodwork of Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries. J. W. Small. Waterston. 1878. L4 4s.

SPANISH.--Spanish and Portuguese. Catalogue of Special Loan Exhibition of Spanish and Portuguese Ornamental Art. 1881.

GLOSSARY OF TERMS USED

_Armoire._--A large cupboard of French design of the dimensions of the modern wardrobe. In the days of Louis XIV. these pieces were made in magnificent style. The Jones Collection at the Victoria and Albert Museum has several fine examples. (See illustration, p. 165.)

_Baroque._--Used in connection with over ornate and incongruous decoration as in _rococo_ style.

_Bombe._--A term applied to pieces of furniture which swell out at the sides.

_Boule._--A special form of marquetry of brass and tortoiseshell perfected by Andre Charles Boule in the reign of Louis XIV. (See