TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES: —Obvious print and punctuation errors were corrected. —Bold text has been rendered ad =bold text=. —Superscript letters have been rendered as word^s. FURNITURE OF THE OLDEN TIME THE MACMILLAN COMPANY NEW YORK · BOSTON · CHICAGO · DALLAS ATLANTA · SAN FRANCISCO MACMILLAN & CO., LIMITED LONDON · BOMBAY · CALCUTTA MELBOURNE THE MACMILLAN CO. OF CANADA, LTD. TORONTO [Illustration] FURNITURE OF THE OLDEN TIME BY FRANCES CLARY MORSE NEW EDITION WITH A NEW CHAPTER AND MANY NEW ILLUSTRATIONS “_How much more agreeable it is to sit in the midst of old furniture like Minott’s clock, and secretary and looking-glass, which have come down from other generations, than amid that which was just brought from the cabinet-maker’s, smelling of varnish, like a coffin! To sit under the face of an old clock that has been ticking one hundred and fifty years—there is something mortal, not to say immortal, about it; a clock that begun to tick when Massachusetts was a province._” H. D. THOREAU, “Autumn.” New York THE MACMILLAN COMPANY 1926 _All rights reserved_ COPYRIGHT, 1902 AND 1917, BY THE MACMILLAN COMPANY. Set up and electrotyped November, 1902. Reprinted April, 1903; July, 1905; February, 1908; September, 1910; September, 1913. New edition, with a new chapter and new illustrations, December, 1917. Norwood Press _J. S. Cushing Co._—_Berwick & Smith Co._ _Norwood, Mass., U.S.A._ To my Sister ALICE MORSE EARLE Contents PAGE INTRODUCTION 1 CHAPTER I CHESTS, CHESTS OF DRAWERS, AND DRESSING-TABLES 10 CHAPTER II BUREAUS AND WASHSTANDS 41 CHAPTER III BEDSTEADS 64 CHAPTER IV CUPBOARDS AND SIDEBOARDS 84 CHAPTER V DESKS 117 CHAPTER VI