[Illustration: FRONT COVER] LITTLE BOOKS ABOUT OLD FURNITURE II. QUEEN ANNE LITTLE BOOKS ABOUT OLD FURNITURE Uniformly bound, Crown 8vo Price 2s 6d net each I. TUDOR TO STUART II. QUEEN ANNE III. CHIPPENDALE AND HIS SCHOOL IV. THE SHERATON PERIOD LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN 21 Bedford Street, W.C. [Illustration: QUEEN ANNE WALNUT TALLBOY AND STOOL (EARLY EIGHTEENTH CENTURY.)] LITTLE BOOKS ABOUT OLD FURNITURE ENGLISH FURNITURE: BY J. P. BLAKE & A. E. REVEIRS-HOPKINS. VOLUME II THE PERIOD OF QUEEN ANNE [Illustration: WILLIAM HEINEMANN LOGO] NEW EDITION ILLUSTRATED LONDON MCMXIV WILLIAM HEINEMANN _First published October 1911_ _New Edition January 1913_ _Second Impression June 1914_ _Copyright London 1911 by William Heinemann_ INTRODUCTION The sovereigns of England, unlike those of France, have seldom taken to themselves the task of acting as patrons of the fine arts. Therefore when we write of the "Queen Anne period" we do not refer to the influence of the undistinguished lady who for twelve years occupied the throne of England. The term is merely convenient for the purpose of classification, embracing, as it does, the period from William and Mary to George I. during which the furniture had a strong family likeness and shows a development very much on the same line. The change, at the last quarter of the seventeenth century, from the Jacobean models to the Dutch, was probably the most important change that has come over English furniture. It was a change which strongly influenced Chippendale and his school, and remains with us to this day.