Transcriber's note: Minor spelling and punctuation inconsistencies have been harmonized. Italic text has been marked with _underscores_. Obvious typos have been corrected. COMPANION VOLUME BY THE SAME AUTHOR CHATS ON OLD FURNITURE _Illustrated by 72 Full-page Plates._ CONTENTS CHAPTER I. THE RENAISSANCE ON THE CONTINENT II. THE ENGLISH RENAISSANCE III. STUART OR JACOBEAN (Early Seventeenth Century) IV. STUART OR JACOBEAN (Late Seventeenth Century) V. QUEEN ANNE AND EARLY GEORGIAN STYLES VI. FRENCH FURNITURE: THE PERIOD OF LOUIS XIV. VII. FRENCH FURNITURE: THE PERIOD OF LOUIS XV. VIII. FRENCH FURNITURE: THE PERIOD OF LOUIS XVI. IX. FRENCH FURNITURE: THE FIRST EMPIRE STYLE X. CHIPPENDALE AND HIS STYLE XI. ADAM, HEPPLEWHITE, AND SHERATON STYLES XII. HINTS TO COLLECTORS CHATS ON COTTAGE AND FARMHOUSE FURNITURE BOOKS FOR COLLECTORS _With Coloured Frontispieces and many Illustrations._ _Large Crown 8vo, cloth._ CHATS ON ENGLISH CHINA. By ARTHUR HAYDEN. CHATS ON OLD FURNITURE. By ARTHUR HAYDEN. CHATS ON OLD PRINTS. By ARTHUR HAYDEN. CHATS ON COSTUME. By G. WOOLLISCROFT RHEAD. CHATS ON OLD LACE AND NEEDLEWORK. By E. L. LOWES. CHATS ON ORIENTAL CHINA. By J. F. BLACKER. CHATS ON MINIATURES. By J. J. FOSTER. CHATS ON ENGLISH EARTHENWARE. By ARTHUR HAYDEN. (Companion Volume to "Chats on English China.") CHATS ON AUTOGRAPHS. By A. M. BROADLEY. CHATS ON OLD PEWTER. By H. J. L. J. MASSÉ, M.A. CHATS ON POSTAGE STAMPS. By FRED J. MELVILLE. CHATS ON OLD JEWELLERY AND TRINKETS. By MACIVER PERCIVAL. CHATS ON COTTAGE AND FARMHOUSE FURNITURE. By ARTHUR HAYDEN. (Companion Volume to "Chats on Old Furniture.") LONDON: T. FISHER UNWIN. NEW YORK: F. A. STOKES COMPANY. [Illustration: SIDEBOARD OF CARVED OAK. ENGLISH, SEVENTEENTH CENTURY. (_In the Victoria and Albert Museum._) _Frontispiece._] CHATS ON COTTAGE AND FARMHOUSE FURNITURE BY ARTHUR HAYDEN AUTHOR OF "CHATS ON OLD FURNITURE," ETC. WITH A CHAPTER ON OLD ENGLISH CHINTZES BY HUGH PHILLIPS AND SEVENTY-THREE FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS NEW YORK FREDERICK A. STOKES COMPANY PUBLISHERS (_All rights reserved._) TO MY OLD FRIEND FREDERIC ARUP I DEDICATE THIS VOLUME IN MEMORY OF A HAPPY LABOUR OF LOVE COMPLETED PREFACE The number of works dealing with old English furniture has grown rapidly during the last ten years. Not only has the subject been broadly treated from the historic or from the collector's point of view, but latterly everything has been scientifically reduced into departments of knowledge, and individual periods have received detailed treatment at the hands of specialists.