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• Specimens of ancient furniture (London : William. Pickering, 1836., 1836), by Samuel Rush Meyrick, William Pickering, and Henry Shaw (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)
• Designs for Gothic furniture (R. Ackermann, 1828), by Augustus Pugin (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)
• 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)

• 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)

• Thirty-six new, original & practical designs for chairs (J. Hollway lithog., 1830), by William Toms and Joseph Hollway (page images at HathiTrust)

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• The Anarchist's Design Book (expanded edition; Covington, KY: Lost Art Press, c2019), by Christopher Schwarz, illust. by Briony Morrow-Cribbs (PDF at lostartpress.com)
• The Anarchist's Workbench (Covington, KY: Lost Art Press, c2020), by Christopher Schwarz (PDF with commentary at lostartpress.com)
• Furniture designing and draughting, notes on the elementary forms, methods of construction and dimensions of common articles of furniture (The William T. Comstock co., 1914), by Alvan Crocker Nye (page images at HathiTrust)
• La menuiserie. (C. Delagrave, 1897), by H. Havard (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, to which is added a complete series of new and original designs for household furniture and interior decoration ... comprising likewise instructions and examples in the ... principles of ornamental foliage ... (Jones and co., 1828), by George Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ideas for rustic furniture proper for garden seats, summer houses, hermitages, cottages, &c : on 25 plates. (M. Taylor, 1838), by William Wrighte (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)
• Gründerzeit : Möbel und Zimmereinrichtungen (Verlag Th. Schäfer, 1881), by Friedrich Schwenke (page images at HathiTrust)
• Chats on cottage and farmhouse furniture (F.A. Stokes Co., 1912), by Arthur Hayden and Hugh Phillips (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 as applicable to the above branches of mechanics ... illustrated by ... numerous engravings to which is added, a complete series of new and original designs for household furniture, and interior decoration beautifully and correctly coloured ... (Jones and Co., 1826), by George Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
• Designs of ornaments for cabinet furniture, with prices ... (Printed for the London cabinet makers, 1811) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The cabinet maker, upholsterer, and complete decorator : with geometrical sections, and furniture coloured engravings, and a perfect glossary of technical terms used in cabinet making (Fisher & Caxton, 1826), by Peter Nicholson (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)
• The cabinet makers' sketch book : a series of original details, for modern furniture (W. Mackenzie, 1852), by P. Thomson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cabinet maker's album of furniture : comprising a collection of designs for the newest and most elegant styles of furniture : illustrated by forty-eight large and beautifully engraved plates. (Henry Carey Baird, 1868) (page images at HathiTrust)
• L'art et la science du meuble; ouvrage d'enseignement professionnel moderne ... (C. Moreau, 1925), by Louis Bertin (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Studii architettonico-ornamentali : nei quali si comprendono riduzioni di fabbricati di ogni maniera variamente modificati, parti architettoniche, decorazioni, grandi suppellettili, ec., secondo richiedono i bisogni del secolo (Nel privil. stabilimento nazionale di G. Antonelli edit., 1850), by Giuseppe Zanetti and Lorenzo Urbani (page images at HathiTrust)

• CODOFF : computer design of furniture frames, program documentation (Purdue University Agricultural Experiment Station, 1971), by Carl A. Eckelman (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Computer analysis (Fortran and Basic) of chair frames (Purdue University Agricultural Experiment Station, 1976), by Carl A. Eckelman and David A. Fergus (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Codoff : computer design of furniture frames : user's manual (Purdue University Agricultural Experiment Station, 1970), by Carl A. Eckelman (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Modell- und Zeichnungsbuch für Ebenisten, Tischer, Tapezirer und Stuhlmacher : und sonst für jeden Liebhaber des guten Geschmacks bey Möblirung und Einrichtung der Putz- und Prachtzimmer (Bey Gerhard Fleischer dem Jüngeren, 1794), by Thomas Sheraton and Gottfried Traugott Wenzel (page images at HathiTrust)

• [Collection of designs for furniture and architectural ornamentation] (Jacques-François Chareau, in the 1780s), by Jacques-François Chereau, Richard La Londe, and Henri Salembier (page images at HathiTrust)

• Recueil de décorations intérieures comprenant tout ce qui a rapport à l'ameublement (G. Antonelli, 1843), by Charles Percier, Giuseppe Borsato, Francesco Lazzari, and Pierre François Léonard Fontaine (page images at HathiTrust)

• Ameublements Drouard : ébénisterie, sculpture, sièges : reproduction des meubles du Musée de Cluny : Rue St. Dominique 35, Paris. (Drouard, 1872), by Drouard (Firm) (page images at HathiTrust)

• Fabrique et grands magasins d'ameublements au Confortable. (Paris : Au Confortable, [between 1900 and 1909?], in the 1900s), by Au Confortable (Firm) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Oeuvre de Cornille (Chés François Chereau, rue St. Jacques, aux deux piliers d'or, 1751), by F. Cornille, François Chéreau, and A. Monchelet (page images at HathiTrust)

• Das neue Möbel : neuzeitliche Wohn-, Schlaf- und Arbeitsräume in 93 Ansichten und 119 Masszeichnungen (J. Hoffmann, 1929), by Paul Griesser (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Neues Verzeichniss und Muster-Charte des Meubles-Magazin ([s.n.], 1795), by Friedrich Gottlob Hofmann (page images at HathiTrust)

• Austellung der Stuhl : Katalog : Stuttgart, September-Oktober 1928, Städt. Ausstellungsbäude auf dem Interimtheaterplatz. (J. Hoffmann, 1928) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Furniture as interpreted by the Century Furniture Company. (Century Furniture Company, 1928), by Century Furniture Company (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Stick Chair Book (revised edition; Covington, KY: Lost Art Press, c2023), by Christopher Schwarz (PDF with commentary at lostartpress.com)

• JAUR (Journal of Architecture and Urbanism Research) (in Indonesian; 2017-) (partial serial archives)

• Literature survey on passenger and seat modeling for the evaluation of ride quality (Council for Advanced Transportation Studies, The University of Texas at Austin, 1973), by Anthony Healey, Ronald Stearman, Bruce Gene Shanahan, United States. Dept. of Transportation, and University of Texas at Austin. Council for Advanced Transportation Studies (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Light-weight seating: design research and development of a net seat for Project Manhigh. One of a series of studies pertaining to crew compartment habitability for extended missions. (Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio : Wright Air Development Center, Air Research and Development Command, United States Air Force, 1958., 1958), by John H. Duddy, Charles A. Dempsey, United States. Air Force. Air Research and Development Command, Wright Air Development Center, and Tufts University. Bio-Mechanics Laboratory (page images at HathiTrust)
• Light-weight seating: design research on a nylon net seat : one of a series of studies pertaining to crew compartment habitability for extended missions (Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio : Wright Air Development Center, Air Research and Development Command, United States Air Force, 1958., 1958), by Jess Forrest, R. F. Slechta, Wilbert Kennith Carter, Edward A. Wade, United States. Air Force. Air Research and Development Command, Wright Air Development Center, and Tufts University. Bio-Mechanics Laboratory (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; US access only)
• 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)
• Early English furniture & woodwork ... (G. Routledge and sons limited, 1922), by Herbert Cescinsky and Ernest R. Gribble (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• 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; US access only)
• Old English walnut & lacquer furniture (H. Jenkins limited, 1923), by Robert Wemyss Symonds (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• 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; US access only)
• 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; US access only)
• English furniture at a glance (The Architectural press, 1924), by Charles H. Hayward (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• 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; US access only)
• Time, taste and furniture. (Richards, 1925), by John Gloag (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The old-world house, its furniture & decoration (The Macmillan company;, 1924), by Herbert Cescinsky (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• 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; US access only)
• 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; US access only)
• Möbel und Raumkunst in England, 1680-1800 (J. Hoffmann, 1911), by G. M. Ellwood (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The old-world house : its furniture & decoration (Macmillan ;, 1924), by Herbert Cescinsky (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• 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; US access only)
• Old English furniture (B.T. Batsford, 1920), by Frederick Fenn and Bertie Wyllie (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• 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; US access only)
• 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; US access only)
• 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; US access only)
• The furniture designs of Thomas Sheraton (Gibbings and Co., Ltd., 1910), by Thomas Sheraton, Arthur Hayden, and J. Munro Bell (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• 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; US access only)
• 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; US access only)
• Möbel und Raumkunst in England, 1680-1800 (J. Hoffmann, 1909), by George Montague Ellwood (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• 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; US access only)
• 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; US access only)
• English furniture & decoration, 1680-1800. (B. T. Batsford, 1922), by George Montague. 1875- Ellwood (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Chippendale period in English furniture (Debenham & Freebody [etc.];, 1990), by K. Warren Clouston (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• 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; 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 (McCorquodale, 1900), by Thomas Arthur Strange (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• English decoration and furniture of the later XVIIIth century (1760-1820) (B. T. Batsford ltd., 1922), by Margaret Jourdain (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• English furniture and decoration (B. T. Batsford, 1922), by G. M. Ellwood (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Chippendale and his school (Frederick A. Stokes Co., 1913), by John Percy Blake (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• 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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