MTU Cork Library Catalogue

Early English furniture & woodwork. vol. 1 / Herbert Cescinsky and Ernest R. Gribble.

By: Cescinsky, Herbert, b. 1875.
Contributor(s): Gribble, Ernest R.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: London : George Routledge and Sons Limited, 1922Description: 387 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 35 cm.Subject(s): Furniture -- England -- History | Woodwork -- England -- HistoryDDC classification: 749.22
Contents:
The dissolution of monasteries -- The early woodworker: his life, tools and methods -- The plan of the early Tudor house -- The development of the English timber roof -- Gothic woodwork and colour decoration -- Timber houses, porches and doors -- The English staircase -- Wood panellings and mantels -- Bedsteads and their development.

Frontispieces are accompanied by guard sheets with descriptive letterpress.

Includes index.

The dissolution of monasteries -- The early woodworker: his life, tools and methods -- The plan of the early Tudor house -- The development of the English timber roof -- Gothic woodwork and colour decoration -- Timber houses, porches and doors -- The English staircase -- Wood panellings and mantels -- Bedsteads and their development.

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