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• A brief sketch of the Morris movement and of the firm founded by William Morris to carry out his designs and the industries revived or started by him, written to commemorate the firm's fiftieth anniversary in June 1911. (Privately printed for Morris & company, decorators, ltd., 1911), by England) Morris & Co. (London (page images at HathiTrust)
• Modern decorative art in England, its development & characteristics (B.T. Batsford, ltd., 1922), by W. G. Paulson Townsend (page images at HathiTrust)
• Some minor arts as practised in England (Seeley and Co. Limited, 1894), by A. H. Church, John Starkie Gardner, Albert Hartshorne, William Younger Fletcher, and Charles Hercules Read (page images at HathiTrust)

• Catalogue of examples from a collection of early English furniture, English porcelains, silver, etc., ([Vernay], 1922), by N.Y.) Arthur S. Vernay Incorporated (New York and Arthur S. Vernay (page images at HathiTrust)

• 1851 Great Exhibition official catalogue with alphabetical & classified index and priced lists (Spicer Brothers ;, 1851), by England) Great Exhibition (1851 : London (page images at HathiTrust)

• Iron & brass implements of the English and American home (Medici Society, 1927), by J. Seymour Lindsay (page images at HathiTrust)

• The South Kensington Museum : examples of the works of art in the museum and of the decorations of the building with brief descriptions. (S. Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington, 1881), by South Kensington Museum (page images at HathiTrust)
• Works of art in the collections of England (Holloway and Son, in the 1870s), by Edouard Lièvre (page images at HathiTrust)

• Designs for carving and gilding, used as interior decoration and furniture : with original patterns for dressing glasses, in a variety of styles, including that of Louis XIV, which being at present highly fashionable, is displayed in many examples (London : J. Weale, at the Architectural Library ; Glasgow : A. Rutherglen ; Edinburgh : J. Menzies ; Dublin : G. Young, [1836?], 1836), by Thomas King (page images at HathiTrust)

• Anecdotes of the manners and customs of London during the eighteenth century ... with a review of the state of society in 1807. To which is added, a sketch of the domestic architecture, and of the various improvements in the metropolis ... (Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1810), by James Peller Malcolm (page images at HathiTrust)
• A history of everyday things in England ... written and illustrated by Marjorie and C. H. B. Quennell. (B. T. Batsford, ld, 1918), by Marjorie Quennell and C. H. B. Quennell (page images at HathiTrust)
• A complete view of the dress and habits of the people of England, from the establishment of the Saxons in Britain to the present time ... To which is prefixed an introduction, containing a general description of the ancient habits in use among mankind, from the earliest period of time to the conclusion of the seventh century (H. G. Bohn, 1842), by Joseph Strutt and J. R. Planché (page images at HathiTrust)
• Civil costume of England : from the conquest to the present period ([s.n.], 1841), by Charles Martin and Leopold Martin (page images at HathiTrust)
• The English in the middle ages; from the Norman usurpation to the days of the Stuarts. Their mode of life, dress, arms, occupations, and amusements. As illustrated in the British Museum. (Whiting & co., 1885), by J. Frederick Hodgetts (page images at HathiTrust)
• Notes on civil costume in England from the conquest to the regency. (W. Clowes and sons, limited, 1884), by Lewis Strange Wingfield and London. 1884 (page images at HathiTrust)
• Anecdotes of the manners and customs of London from the Roman invasion to the year 1700 ... To which are added, illustrations of the changes in our language, literary customs, and gradual improvement in style and versification, and various particulars concerning public and private libraries ... (Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1811), by James Peller Malcolm (page images at HathiTrust)
• English costume (A. and C. Balck, 1906), by Dion Clayton Calthrop (page images at HathiTrust)
• The mirror of the graces; or, The English lady's costume. Combining and harmonizing taste and judgment, elegance and grace, modesty, simplicity and economy, with fashion in dress ... (printed for B. Crosby, 1811), by Lady of distinction (page images at HathiTrust)
• Engravings of sepulchral brasses in Norfolk and Suffolk : tending to illustrate the ecclesiastical, military, and civil costume as well as to preserve memorials of ancient families in that county (H. G. Bohn, 1839), by John Sell Cotman and Dawson Turner (page images at HathiTrust)
• The English in the middle ages (Whiting & co., 1885), by J. Frederick Hodgetts (page images at HathiTrust)
• The book of the York pageant, 1909. A dramatic representation of the city's history in seven episodes, from B.C. 800-A.D. 1644. (Johnson, 1909), by Ben & Co. Johnson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Phillip Stubbes's Anatomy of the abuses in England in Shakspere's youth, A.D. 1583 (Pub. for the New Shakspere Society, by N. Trübner & co., 1877), by Phillip Stubbes (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ornatvs mliebris Anglicanus (Bohemus, fecit London., 1640), by Wenceslaus Hollar (page images at HathiTrust)

• Travels in South Kensington, with notes on Decorative art and architecture in England (Trübner & co., 1882), by Moncure Daniel Conway (page images at HathiTrust)
• Measured drawings of old oak English furniture, also of some remains of architectural woodwork, plasterwork, metalwork, glazing, etc. (B. T. Batsford, 1902), by John Weymouth Hurrell (page images at HathiTrust)
• The arts connected with building: lectures on craftsmanship and design delivered at Carpenters hall, London wall, for the worshipful company of carpenters (B.T. Batsford, 1909), by T. Raffles Davison (page images at HathiTrust)
• Nordisk og femmed ornamentik i vikingetiden, med saerligt henblik paa stiludviklingen i England. (H. H. Thieles bogtrykkeri, 1921), by Johannes Brøndsted (page images at HathiTrust)
• Travels in South Kensington, with notes on Decorative art and architecture in England (Trübner & co., 1882), by Conway (page images at HathiTrust)
• Guide to collectors : 3000 illustrations : English furniture, decoration, woodwork & allied arts during the last half of the seventeenth century, the whole of the eighteenth century, and the earlier part of the nineteenth ([London, 1900), by Thomas Arthur Strange (page images at HathiTrust)
• Antiquarian gleanings in the North of England : being examples of antique furniture, plate, church decorations, objects of historical interest, etc. (G. Bell, 1851), by William Bell Scott (page images at HathiTrust)
• English furniture, decoration, woodwork & allied arts : during the last half of the seventeenth century, and the whole of the eighteenth century, and the earlier part of the nineteenth (T. A. Strange, 1910), by Thomas Arthur Strange (page images at HathiTrust)
• Antiquarian gleanings in the north of England : being examples of antique furniture, plate, church decorations, objects of historical interest, etc. (G. Bell, 1850), by William Bell Scott (page images at HathiTrust)
• Household furniture and interior decoration (Printed by T. Bensley for Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1807), by Thomas Hope (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sixty different sorts of ornaments jnvented by Gaetano Brunetti, Italian painter (G. Brunetti], 1736), by Gaetano Brunetti, John Rocque, and Henry Fletcher (page images at HathiTrust)
• English decoration and furniture of the later XVIIIth century (1760-1820) : an account of its development and characteristic forms (Scribner's, 1922), by Margaret Jourdain (page images at HathiTrust)
• A guide to collectors : 3,500 illustrations : English furniture, decoration, woodwork & allied arts during the last half of the seventeenth century, the whole of the eighteenth century, and the earlier part of the nineteenth (McCorquodale, 1900), by Thomas Arthur Strange (page images at HathiTrust)
• A book of old English designs : twenty-seven plates of historical English ornament. (The Company, 1921), by Jacobson & Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• English decoration and furniture of the later XVIIIth century (1760-1820) (B. T. Batsford ltd., 1922), by Margaret Jourdain (page images at HathiTrust)
• Designs for carving and gilding, used as interior decoration and furniture : with original patterns for dressing glasses, in a variety of styles, including that of Louis XIV, which being at present highly fashionable, is displayed in many examples (London : J. Weale, at the Architectural Library ; Glasgow : A. Rutherglen ; Edinburgh : J. Menzies ; Dublin : G. Young, [1836?], 1836), by Thomas King (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ackermann's repository of arts (London : [Ackermann], 1809-1828., 1809), by J. Taylor, Elihu Phinney, F. Ambrose Clark, Alfred Corning Clark, Charles Blunt, and Rudolph Ackermann (page images at HathiTrust)
• Antiquarian gleanings in the North of England : being examples of antique furniture, plate, church decorations, objects of historical interest, etc., illust. by William Bell Scott (Gutenberg ebook)
• Travels in South Kensington: with Notes on Decorative Art and Architecture in England, by Moncure Daniel Conway (Gutenberg ebook)

• Glass frames, ovals, stands for candles, picture frames, slab frames, side of a room, an organ, ceilings, chimney peices, brackets for figures &c., clock cases, gerondoles, lanthorns, stands for china, silversmiths, table brackets, stove grates, watch cases. (Sold by T. Johnson ..., 1758), by Thos. Johnson and Butler Clowes (page images at HathiTrust)

• English Furniture (London: Methuen and Co., c1905), by Frederick S. Robinson (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Old English furniture, a view of its characteristics from Tudor times to the regency, for the use of collectors, designers and students (B. T. Batsford, 1924), by Joshua T. Garside (page images at HathiTrust)
• Seats of the colonists and other furnishings. (American architect company, 1904), by William Rotch Ware, R. Davis Benn, Horace C. Dunham, and William B. Bigelow (page images at HathiTrust)
• English furniture from Gothic to Sheraton : a concise account of the development of English furniture and woodwork from the Gothic of the fifteenth century to the classic revival of the early nineteenth (Garden City Pub. Co., 1937), by Herbert Cescinsky (page images at HathiTrust)
• Early English furniture & woodwork ... (G. Routledge and sons limited, 1922), by Herbert Cescinsky and Ernest R. Gribble (page images at HathiTrust)
• English furniture of the eighteenth century (G. Routledge & sons, limited, 1910), by Herbert Cescinsky (page images at HathiTrust)
• The dictionary of English furniture (Offices of "Country Life", 1924), by Percy Macquoid, Theresa I. Dent Macquoid, and Ralph Edwards (page images at HathiTrust)
• Old English walnut & lacquer furniture. (H. Jenkins limited, 1923), by Robert Wemyss Symonds (page images at HathiTrust)
• Old English furniture, its true value and function. (Pub. by Country life, ltd., for Waring & Gillow, ltd., 1928), by H. Avray Tipping (page images at HathiTrust)
• Furniture mouldings. (E. Benn limited, 1923), by E. J. Warne (page images at HathiTrust)
• Measured drawings of old oak English furniture, also of some remains of architectural woodwork, plasterwork, metalwork, glazing, etc. (B. T. Batsford, 1902), by John Weymouth Hurrell (page images at HathiTrust)
• English furniture at a glance. (The Architectural press, 1924), by Charles H. Hayward (page images at HathiTrust)
• An encyclopaedia of English furniture; a pictorial review of English furniture from Gothic times to the mid-nineteenth century. Edited with an introduction by Oliver Brackett. (E. Benn, limited, 1927), by Oliver Brackett (page images at HathiTrust)
• Time, taste and furniture. (Richards, 1925), by John Gloag (page images at HathiTrust)
• The old-world house, its furniture & decoration (The Macmillan company;, 1924), by Herbert Cescinsky (page images at HathiTrust)
• Old English furniture from the 16th to the 19th centuries. A guide for the collector. (L. U. Gill, 1909), by George Owen Wheeler (page images at HathiTrust)
• A history of English furniture (Medici Society in conjunction with Lawrence & Bullen, 1919), by Percy Macquoid (page images at HathiTrust)
• English furniture (G.P. Putnam ;, 1905), by Frederick S. Robinson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Möbel und Raumkunst in England, 1680-1800 (J. Hoffmann, 1911), by G. M. Ellwood (page images at HathiTrust)
• The old-world house : its furniture & decoration (Macmillan ;, 1924), by Herbert Cescinsky (page images at HathiTrust)
• A picture book of English chairs. (London, 1927), by Victoria and Albert Museum (page images at HathiTrust)
• English furniture of the cabriole period (J. Cape, 1922), by H. Avray Tipping (page images at HathiTrust)
• Little books about old furniture; English furniture (F.A. Stokes, 1911), by John Percy Blake and Alfred Edward Reveirs-Hopkins (page images at HathiTrust)
• Catalogue of English furniture & woodwork. (Board of Education, 1927), by Victoria and Albert Museum. Department of Woodwork, Ralph Edwards, Oliver Brackett, and H. C. Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
• Old English furniture (B.T. Batsford, 1920), by Frederick Fenn and Bertie Wyllie (page images at HathiTrust)
• The decoration and furniture of English mansions during the seventeenth & eighteenth centuries (T. W. Laurie, 1909), by Francis Henry Lenygon (page images at HathiTrust)
• English furniture. (E. Benn, 1928), by Oliver Brackett (page images at HathiTrust)
• English chairs, with specimens illustrating the various periods from the fifteenth to the nineteenth century (J. Tiranti, 1923), by Herbert Ernest Binstead (page images at HathiTrust)
• English furniture and decoration, 1680-1800 (B. T. Batsford, 1900), by G. M. Ellwood (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Chippendale period in English furniture (Debenham & Freebody [etc.];, 1897), by K. Warren Clouston (page images at HathiTrust)
• An introduction to old English furniture (G.Newnes ;, 1905), by W. E. Mallett and H. M. Brock (page images at HathiTrust)
• The collector's guide to furniture design (English and American) from the Gothic to the nineteenth century (Collectors Press, 1928), by Edward Wenham (page images at HathiTrust)
• Victorian furniture. (Roy, 1952), by F. Gordon Roe (page images at HathiTrust)
• A guide to English and French furniture of the eighteenth century; a new and unusual treatise regarding the use, manufacture and care of choice reproductions; intended for the pleasure and interest of all who enjoy fine things. ([Holland, Mich., 1940), by Baker Furniture Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• A glossary of English furniture of the historic periods (Robert M. McBride & Co., 1925), by James George Joseph Penderel-Brodhurst and Edwin J. Layton (page images at HathiTrust)
• The cabinet-maker and upholsterer's guide : being a complete drawing book, in which will be comprised treatises on geometry and perspective ... numerous engravings ... (Jones, 1826), by George Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
• Möbel und Raumkunst in England, 1680-1800 (J. Hoffmann, 1913), by G. M. Ellwood (page images at HathiTrust)
• The furniture designs of Thomas Sheraton (Gibbings and Co., Ltd., 1910), by Thomas Sheraton, Arthur Hayden, and J. Munro Bell (page images at HathiTrust)
• English furniture of the eighteenth century (G. Sadler, 1909), by Herbert Cescinsky (page images at HathiTrust)
• Furniture with candelabra and interior decoration (London : William Pickering, Chancery Lane, 1838., 1838), by Richard Bridgens and William Pickering (page images at HathiTrust)
• Exemplars of Tudor architecture, adapted to modern habitations: with illustrative details, selected from ancient edifices; and observations on the furniture of the Tudor period. (H.G. Bohn, 1841), by T. F. Hunt (page images at HathiTrust)
• English furniture and decoration, 1680-1800. (J. Hoffman, 1909), by G. M. Ellwood (page images at HathiTrust)
• English furniture & decoration, 1680-1800. (Brentano's, 1909), by G. M. Ellwood (page images at HathiTrust)
• Chippendale and his school (Frederick A. Stokes, 1913), by John Percy Blake (page images at HathiTrust)
• Möbel und Raumkunst in England, 1680-1800 (J. Hoffmann, 1909), by George Montague Ellwood (page images at HathiTrust)
• Collection of designs for household furniture and interior decoration, in the most approved and elegant taste ... engraved on 158 plates, from original drawings. (J. Taylor, 1808), by George Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
• The art of building a home : a collection of lectures and illustrations (Longmans, Green & Co., 1901), by Barry Parker and Raymond Unwin (page images at HathiTrust)
• The furniture of Windsor Castle (Bradbury, Agnew & Co., 1905), by Guy Francis Laking and Windsor Castle (page images at HathiTrust)
• Illustrated catalogue of a notable collection of beautiful English furniture of the XVII and XVIII centuries ([Press of the Lent & Graff Company], 1910), by Tiffany Studios, Thomas E. Kirby, Luke Vincent Lockwood, Thomas B. Clarke, and American Art Association (page images at HathiTrust)
• Möbel und Raumkunst in England, 1680-1800 (J. Hoffmann, 1910), by G. M. Ellwood (page images at HathiTrust)
• Old English furniture of the 17th and 18th centuries. A guide for the collector. (L.U. Gill;, 1907), by George Owen Wheeler (page images at HathiTrust)
• English furniture & decoration, 1680-1800. (B. T. Batsford, 1922), by George Montague. 1875- Ellwood (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Chippendale period in English furniture (Debenham & Freebody [etc.];, 1990), by K. Warren Clouston (page images at HathiTrust)
• Exemplars of Tudor architecture, adapted to modern habitations: with illustrative details, selected from ancient edifices; and observations on furniture of the Tudor period. (Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1830), by T. F. Hunt (page images at HathiTrust)
• English decoration and furniture of the later XVIIIth century (1760-1820) : an account of its development and characteristic forms (Scribner's, 1922), by Margaret Jourdain (page images at HathiTrust)
• A guide to collectors : 3,500 illustrations : English furniture, decoration, woodwork & allied arts during the last half of the seventeenth century, the whole of the eighteenth century, and the earlier part of the nineteenth (McCorquodale, 1900), by Thomas Arthur Strange (page images at HathiTrust)
• English decoration and furniture of the later XVIIIth century (1760-1820) (B. T. Batsford ltd., 1922), by Margaret Jourdain (page images at HathiTrust)
• English furniture and decoration (B. T. Batsford, 1922), by G. M. Ellwood (page images at HathiTrust)
• Chippendale and his school (Frederick A. Stokes Co., 1913), by John Percy Blake (page images at HathiTrust)
• English furniture, objects d'art & embroideries ... the property of ... the Marquess of Reading ... to be sold ... January fifteenth ... (The Anderson Galleries, 1927), by Rufus Daniel Isaacs Reading and Inc Anderson Galleries (page images at HathiTrust)
• The practical cabinet maker & upholsterer's treasury of designs : house-furnishing & decorating assistant : in the Grecian, Italian, Renaissance, Louis-Quatorze, Gothic, Tudor, and Elizabethan styles : interspersed with designs executed for the royal palaces, and for some of the principal mansions of the nobility and gentry, and club houses (Peter Jackson, late Fisher, Sons, & Co., 1847), by Henry Whitaker (page images at HathiTrust)
• The cabinet-maker's assistant : a series of original designs for modern furniture, with descriptions and details of construction : preceded by practical observations on the materials and manufacture of cabinet-work, and instructions in drawing adapted to the trade. (Blackie and Son, 1853), by P. Thomson (page images at HathiTrust)
• A picture book of English chests and cabinets (Published under the authority of the Board of Education, 1926), by Victoria and Albert Museum (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Ackermann's repository of arts (London : [Ackermann], 1809-1828., 1809), by J. Taylor, Elihu Phinney, F. Ambrose Clark, Alfred Corning Clark, Charles Blunt, and Rudolph Ackermann (page images at HathiTrust)
• Old English walnut & lacquer furniture : the present-day condition and value and the methods of the furniture-faker in producing spurious pieces (R.M. McBride, 1923), by R. W. Symonds (page images at HathiTrust)
• A glossary of English furniture of the historic periods (J. Murray, 1925), by J. Penderel-Brodhurst and Edwin J. Layton (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Tudor architecture. (H. G. Bohn, 1841), by T. F. Hunt (page images at HathiTrust)
• The A.B.C. history of antique English furniture (Old World Galleries, 1926), by Herbert Stanley Barrett (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Illustrated catalogue of an extraordinary collection of antique Italian, French and English furniture, beautiful old laces, velvets and embroideries, sixty desirable tapestries and other art property and antiquities : To be sold at unrestricted public sale for the purpose of liquidating the interest of the late Madame Anna Keller in the wellknown art house of Keller and Funaro ... January 25th, 26th, 27th and 29th, at the American art galleries ... ([American Art Association], 1923), by Anna Keller, American Art Association, and Thomas E. Kirby (page images at HathiTrust)
• English furniture from Gothic to Sheraton; a concise account of the development of English furniture and woodwork from the Gothic of the fifteenth century to the classic revival of the early nineteenth (The Dean-Hicks company, 1929), by Herbert Cescinsky (page images at HathiTrust)
• Chippendale and his school (W. Heinemann, 1925), by John Percy Blake (page images at HathiTrust)
• French and English furniture: distinctive styles and periods described and illustrated, by Esther Singleton (Gutenberg ebook)
• Chats on Cottage and Farmhouse Furniture, by Arthur Hayden, contrib. by Hugh Phillips (Gutenberg ebook)

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