THE EVOLUTION OF THE CHAIR 189 Early days--The typical Jacobean oak chair--The evolution of the stretcher--The chair-back and its development--Transition between Jacobean and William and Mary forms--Farmhouse styles contemporary with the cane-back chair--The Queen Anne splat--Country Chippendale, Hepplewhite, and Sheraton--The grandfather chair--Ladder-back types--The spindle-back chair--Corner chairs. CHAPTER VIII THE WINDSOR CHAIR 243 Early types--The stick legs without stretcher--The tavern chair--Eighteenth-century pleasure gardens--The rail-back variety--Chippendale style Windsor chairs--The survival of the Windsor chair. CHAPTER IX LOCAL TYPES 265 Welsh carving--Scottish types--Lancashire dressers, wardrobes, and chairs--Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire, Cambridge, and Essex tables--Isle of Man tables. CHAPTER X MISCELLANEOUS IRONWORK, ETC. 285 The rushlight-holder--The dipper--The chimney crane--The Scottish crusie--Firedogs--The warming-pan--Sussex firebacks--Grandfather clocks. CHAPTER XI OLD ENGLISH CHINTZES. (By Hugh Phillips) 315 The charm of old English chintz--Huguenot cloth-printers settle in England--Jacob Stampe at the sign of the Calico Printer--The Queen Anne period--The Chippendale period--The age of machinery. INDEX 343 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS SIDEBOARD OF CARVED OAK (ENGLISH, SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY) _Frontispiece_ CHAPTER I--INTRODUCTORY NOTE PAGE CHESTS (SIXTEENTH CENTURY) 29 ELIZABETHAN CHAIR 35 CHEST (SEVENTEENTH CENTURY) 35 INTERIOR OF FARMHOUSE PARLOUR 39 INTERIOR OF COTTAGE 39 CHAPTER II MONK'S BENCH 53 OAK CHEST WITH DRAWERS UNDERNEATH 53 JOINT STOOLS 57 OAK TABLE 57 CHEST (RESTORATION PERIOD) 63 EARLY OAK TABLE (MIDDLE SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY) 63 SMALL OAK TABLE (_c._ 1680) 65 JACOBEAN CHEST OF DRAWERS (_c._ 1660) 65 CHESTS OF DRAWERS 69 CHEST OF DRAWERS (CABRIOLE FEET) 73 WILLIAM AND MARY TABLE (_c._ 1670) 73 CHILDREN'S STOOLS 77