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• Decorative arts -- England -- History
• Decorative arts -- History -- 18th century
• England -- 18th century

• Costume -- England -- History -- 18th century
• Decoration and ornament -- England -- History -- 18th century
• Furniture -- England -- History -- 18th century

• 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)

• Guide to the English costumes presented by Messrs. Harrods Ltd. (Printed under the authority of his Majesty's Stationery Office, 1913), by Victoria and Albert Museum. Department of Textiles and Harrods Ltd (page images at HathiTrust)

• 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 and Furniture Makers of the 18th century (London: Hurst and Blackett, 1906), by R. S. Clouston
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• English Furniture Designers of the Eighteenth Century (London: A. H. Bullen, 1905), by Constance Simon (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Robert Adam and his brothers : their lives, work & influence on English architecture, decoration and furniture (B.T. Batsford ;, 1915), by John Swarbrick (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The gentleman and cabinet-maker's director : being a large collection of the most elegant and useful designs of household furniture, in the most fashionable taste : including a great variety of chairs, cofas, beds, and couches : china-tables, dressing-tables, shaving-tables, bason-stands, and teakettle-stands : frames for marble-slabs, bureau-dressing-tables, and commodes : writing-tables, and library-tables : library-book-cases, organ-cases for private rooms, or churches, desks, and book-cases : dressing and writing-tables with book-cases, toilets, cabinets, and cloaths-presses : china-cases, china-shelves, and book-shelves : candle-stands, terms for busts, stands for china jars, and pedestals : cisterns for water, lanthorns, and chandeliers : fire-screens, brackets, and clock-cases : pier-glasses, and table-frames : girandoles, chimney-pieces, and picture-frames : stove-grates, boarders, frets, Chinese-railing, and brass-work, for furniture : and other ornaments : to which is prefixed, a short explanation of the five orders of architecture : with proper directions for executing the most difficult pieces, the mouldings being exhibited at large, and the dimensions of each design specified : the whole comprehended in two hundred copper-plates, neatly engraved ... (Printed for the author, and sold at his house, in St. Martin's Lane :, 1762), by Thomas Chippendale, Matthias Darly, and T. Becket and P. A. de Hondt (page images at HathiTrust)
• Household furniture in genteel taste for the year 1760 : containing upwards of 180 designs on 60 copper plates ... with scales (Printed for Robt. Sayer ... at the Golden Buck, 1760) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The decoration and furniture of English mansions during the seventeenth & eighteenth centuries (T. Werner Laurie, 1909), by Francis Henry Lenygon (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Chippendale and other English furniture of the XVIII century : tapestries, oriental rugs, paintings, silver, china, linens & laces : relics of George Washington and Robert Burns, portrait miniatures, gold boxes : property of the estates of the late Edward E.B. Adams (sold by order of City Bank, Farmers Trust Company, executor), Louise Wicke (sold by order of Carl Wicke, executor), property of Mrs. O.M. Mitchel (sold by her order), other owners and estates : public auction sale, February 19, 20, 21, at 2 p.m. (Parke-Bernet Galleries, 1942), by Parke-Bernet Galleries and Hiram H. Parke (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The gentleman and cabinet-maker's director : being a large collection of the most elegant and useful designs of houshold furniture in the Gothic, Chinese and modern taste ... and other ornaments to which is prefixed a short explanation of the five orders of architecture and rules of perspective with proper directions for executing the most difficult pieces, the mouldings being exhibited at large, and the dimensions of each design specified ... (Printed for the author and sold at his House in St. Martin's Lane ... [and 7 others], 1754), by Thomas Chippendale (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Chippendale room from Woodcote Park, Epsom, Surrey, England (c.1750) (Dept. of Decorative Arts of Europe and America, Museum of Fine Arts, 1928), by Boston. Department of Decorative Arts of Europe and America Museum of Fine Arts and Eben Howard Gay (page images at HathiTrust)
• Little Books About Old Furniture. Volume II. The Period of Queen Anne, by J. P. Blake and A. E. Reveirs-Hopkins (Gutenberg ebook)

• English XVIII century furniture & paintings. (Parke-Bernet Galleries Inc., 1940), by Parke-Bernet Galleries (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• English XVIII century furniture ... : public sale, January 26 & 27 at 2 p.m. (Parke-Bernet Galleries Inc., 1940), by Parke-Bernet Galleries (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• American and English eighteenth century furniture : Early American and Georgian silver ... : public sale, Friday and Saturday, November 29 and 30 at 2 p.m. (American Art Association, Anderson Galleries, Inc., 1935), by Anderson Galleries American Art Association (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• The decoration and furniture of English mansions during the seventeenth & eighteenth centuries (T. Werner Laurie, 1909), by Francis Henry Lenygon (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Chippendale room from Woodcote Park, Epsom, Surrey, England (c.1750) (Dept. of Decorative Arts of Europe and America, Museum of Fine Arts, 1928), by Boston. Department of Decorative Arts of Europe and America Museum of Fine Arts and Eben Howard Gay (page images at HathiTrust)

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• Manual of Design, Compiled from the Writings and Addresses of Richard Redgrave (New York: Scribner, Welford, and Armstrong, ca. 1876), by Richard Redgrave, ed. by G. R. Redgrave (page images at HathiTrust)
• Manual of Design, Complied from the Writings and Addresses of Richard Redgrave (London: Pub. for the Committee of Council on Education by Chapman and Hall, 1876), by Richard Redgrave, ed. by G. R. Redgrave (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The drawing-room : its decorations and furniture (Macmillan and Co., 1878), by Lucy Orrinsmith (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 ... ((59 Gordon Sq., W.C.1), Tabard Press, 1970), by Joseph Strutt and J. R. Planché (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A history of costuming on the English stage between 1660 and 1823 ([Madison : University of Wisconsin, 1918), by Lily Bess Campbell, Joseph Fawcett, and Arthur Beatty (page images at HathiTrust)
• The civil costume of England from the conquest to the present time (H.G. Bohn, 1842), by Charles Martin and Leopold Martin (page images at HathiTrust)
• The history of the art of cutting in England : preceded by a sketch of the history of English costumes : illustrated by twenty-one illustrations, nine plates of diagams, and a lithographic portrait of the author (F.T. Prewett : Messrs. Kent & Co. ;, 1887), by Edward B. Giles, F.T. Prewett, Jno. J. Mitchell Co, and W. Kent and Co (page images at HathiTrust)
• The history of the art of cutting in England : preceded by a sketch of the history of English costumes : illustrated by twenty-one illustrations, nine plates of diagrams, and a lithographic portrait of the author (Published by T.H. Holding, 1896), by Edward B. Giles and Thomas Hiram Holding (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 (McCarquodale & co :, 1907), by Thomas Arthur Strange (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• 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 (Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & co., ltd., 1903), by Thomas Arthur Strange (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• 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; US access only)
• English furniture, decoration, woodwork, and allied arts during the last half of the seventeenth century, the whole of the eighteenth century, and the earlier part of the nineteenth (McCorquodale & Co., 1890), by Thomas Arthur Strange (page images at HathiTrust)

• Creators of Decorative Styles: Being a Survey of The Decorative Periods in England From 1600 To 1800, With Special Reference to the Masters of Applied Art Who Developed the Dominant Styles (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page, and Co., 1917), by Walter A. Dyer
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• English and American furniture; a pictorial handbook of furniture made in Great Britain and in the American colonies, some in the sixteenth century but principally in the seventeenth, eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries (Dean-Hicks Co., 1929), by Herbert Cescinsky and George Leland Hunter (page images at HathiTrust)
• Old English furniture and its surroundings, from the restoration to the regency (W. Heinemann, 1920), by MacIver Percival (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Furniture in England from 1660 to 1760 (B. T. Batsford ltd., 1924), by Francis Lenygon (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 (McCarquodale & co :, 1907), by Thomas Arthur Strange (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Style in furniture (Longmans, Green, and co., 1920), by R Davis Benn (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A history of English furniture (Lawrence & Bullen ;, 1904), by Percy Macquoid (page images at HathiTrust)
• English furniture, its essentials and characteristics simply and clearly explained for the student and small collector ("Country life", ltd., and G. Newnes ltd.;, 1923), by John Charles Rogers (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• English and American furniture : a pictorial handbook of fine furniture made in Great Britain and in the American colonies, some in the sixteenth century, but principally in the seventeenth, eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries (Garden City publishing company, inc., 1929), by Herbert Cescinsky and George Leland Hunter (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)
• Style in furniture (Longmans, Green, 1910), by R. Davis Benn (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The period of Queen Anne. (Frederick A. Stokes company, 1917), by John Percy Blake and A. E. Reveirs-Hopkins (page images at HathiTrust)
• Style in furniture (Longmans, Green, and Co., 1904), by R. Davis Benn (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Furniture in England from 1660 to 1760; an account of its development and design (B.T. Batsford, 1924), by Francis Lenygon (page images at HathiTrust)
• The period of Queen Anne ... (Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1911), by John Percy Blake and A. E. Reveirs-Hopkins (page images at HathiTrust)
• English furniture designers of the eighteenth century (A.H. Bullen, 1905), by Constance Simon (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Style in furniture (Longmans, Green, 1912), by R. Davis Benn (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Tudor to Stuart... (Frederick A. Stokes company, 1911), by John Percy Blake and A. E. Reveirs-Hopkins (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 (Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & co., ltd., 1903), by Thomas Arthur Strange (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• 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; US access only)
• Le meuble anglais des Tudors aux Stuarts (Hachette, 1923), by John Percy Blake, Roger de Félice, and Alfred Edward Riveirs-Hopkins (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Furniture in England from 1660 to 1760 (Batsford, 1914), by Francis Lenygon and Margaret Jourdain (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Old English furniture and its surroundings, from the restoration to the regency (C. Scribner's sons, 1920), by MacIver Percival (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Sheraton period : post-Chippendale designers, 1760-1820 ... (W. Heinemann, 1912), by Alfred Edward Reveirs-Hopkins (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Early English furniture & woodwork (The Waverley book company,ltd., 1922), by Herbert Cescinsky and Ernest R. Gribble (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The period of Queen Anne (W. Heineman, 1927), by J. P. Blake (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tudor to Stuart. (Frederick A. Stokes., 1917), by John Percy Blake and Alfred Edward Reveirs-Hopkins (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Sheraton period : post Chippendale designers, 1760-1820. (Stokes, 1910), by Alfred Edward Reveirs-Hopkins (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; US access only)
• The present state of old English furniture (Duckworth & co., 1921), by R. W. Symonds (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The present state of old English furniture (F.A. Stokes, 1921), by R. W. Symonds (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Sheraton period; post-Chippendale designers, 1760-1820. (Frederick A. Stokes, 1922), by A. E. Reveirs-Hopkins (page images at HathiTrust)
• English furniture designers of the eighteenth century (Philadelphia : G.W. Jacobs, [1907?], 1907), by Constance Simon (page images at HathiTrust)
• English furniture, decoration, woodwork, and allied arts during the last half of the seventeenth century, the whole of the eighteenth century, and the earlier part of the nineteenth (McCorquodale & Co., 1890), by Thomas Arthur Strange (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tudor to Stuart (W. Heinemann, 1922), by John Percy Blake and Alfred Edward Reveirs-Hopkins (page images at HathiTrust)

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