Produced by Delphine Lettau, Susan Skinner and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net CHATS ON OLD FURNITURE [Illustration: _Jacobean Chair._] CHATS ON OLD FURNITURE _Press Notices, First Edition._ "Mr. Hayden knows his subject intimately."--_Pall Mall Gazette._ "The hints to collectors are the best and clearest we have seen; so that altogether this is a model book of its kind."--_Athenaeum._ "A useful and instructive volume."--_Spectator._ "An abundance of illustrations completes a well-written and well-constructed history."--_Daily News._ "Mr. Hayden's taste is sound and his knowledge thorough."--_Scotsman._ "A book of more than usual comprehensiveness and more than usual merit."--_Vanity Fair._ "Mr. Hayden has worked at his subject on systematic lines, and has made his book what it purports to be--a practical guide for the collector."--_Saturday Review._ CHATS ON OLD CHINA BY THE SAME AUTHOR. _Second Edition._ _Price_ 5s. _net._ _With Coloured Frontispiece and Reproductions of 156 Marks and 89 Specimens of China._ A List of SALE PRICES and a full INDEX increase the usefulness of the Volume. This is a handy book of reference to enable Amateur Collectors to distinguish between the productions of the various factories. _Press Notices, First Edition._ "A handsome handbook that the amateur in doubt will find useful, and the china-lover will enjoy for its illustrations, and for the author's obvious love and understanding of his subject."--_St. James's Gazette._ "All lovers of china will find much entertainment in this volume."--_Daily News._ "It gives in a few pithy chapters just what the beginner wants to know about the principal varieties of English ware. We can warmly commend the book to the china collector."--_Pall Mall Gazette._ "One of the best points about the book is the clear way in which the characteristics of each factory are noted down separately, so that the veriest tyro ought to be able to judge for himself if he has a piece or pieces which would come under this heading, and the marks are very accurately given."--_Queen._ IN PREPARATION. CHATS ON OLD PRINTS _Price_ 5s. _net._ _Illustrated with Coloured Frontispiece and 70 Full-page Reproductions from Engravings._ With GLOSSARY of Technical Terms, BIBLIOGRAPHY, full INDEX and TABLE of more than 350 of the principal English and Continental Engravers from the XVIth to the XIXth centuries, together with copious notes as to PRICES and values of old prints. LONDON: T. FISHER UNWIN, ADELPHI TERRACE. [Illustration] Chats on Old Furniture A Practical Guide for Collectors By Arthur Hayden Author of "Chats on English China" LONDON: T. FISHER UNWIN 1 ADELPHI TERRACE. MCMVI * * * * * _First Edition, 1905._ _Second " 1906._ _All rights reserved._ [Illustration: _Portion of Carved Walnut Virginal._] PREFACE