Illustrated history of furniture

from the earliest to the present time, containing four hundred illustrations of representative examples of the different periods

by Frederick Litchfield

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Published 1922 by Truslove and Hanson, ltd. in London .
Written in English

Subjects:

Furniture -- History.

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Statement	by Frederick Litchfield.
LC Classifications	NK2270 .L7 1922
The Physical Object
Pagination	xviii, 459 p.
Number of Pages	459
ID Numbers
Open Library	OL6654680M
LC Control Number	23008912
OCLC/WorldCa	4734767

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