ILLUSTRATIONS

PLATE
I	The small Jacobean room of elegance and intimacy	Frontispiece
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II	Late Tudor mantel	[4]
III	Late Tudor bed	[5]
IV	Large oak chest	[6]
V	Early Jacobean chest of carved oak	[7]
VI	Oak chest with drawers	[8]
VII	Oak stand and marquetry cabinet	[9]
VIII	Gate-leg table, forming console with gate closed	[10]
IX	Oak chairs	[11]
X	Oak chest of drawers	[12]
XI	Early Jacobean cabinet	[13]
XII	Oak chairs	[16]
XIII	Spiral turned chair, characteristic of first half of Century	[17]
XIV	Oak cabinet, dated 1653	[20]
XV	Oak gate-leg dining table	[21]
XVI	Oak day beds	[24]
XVII	Stuart chairs	[25]
XVIII	Marquetry cabinet about 1700	[28]
XIX	Walnut cabinet	[29]
XX	Stuart settee with carving. Second half of XVII Century	[42]
XXI	Charles II chairs in varying styles in carving	[43]
XXII	Walnut sofa	[44]
XXIII	Gilt mirror, time of Charles II	[45]
XXIV	Interesting chair transitional between Stuart Styles and William and Mary	[48]
XXV	Chairs in variants of William and Mary	[49]
XXVI	Chest of drawers in burr walnut veneer	[50]
XXVII	Small walnut table	[51]
XXVIII	Carved chairs. Period of William and Mary	[52]
XXIX	Walnut chairs, William and Mary	[53]
XXX	Queen Anne single chair. Queen Anne arm chair. Walnut Queen Anne chairs	[54]
XXXI	Queen Anne chair	[55]

CHAPTER I