The Next-to-Nothing House (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The Next-to-Nothing HouseSad to say, a great deal of present-day furniture is blundering, whether it is upholstered or not, inac curate, expensive travesties of once lovely and for gotten modes, lacking both subtle line and cunning craftsmanship, I am disheartened every time I see these tawdry ameublements advertised. One espe cially quaint recommendation I am very sure I shall never forget. It ran, A fine William and Mary Suite in the popular Jacobean Finish. Poor William of Orange! The Battle of the Boyne might never have been fought at all! For beyond everything else, furniture is tangible history, and unless you can realize its background, the periods which made it, the in¿uences which shaped it, why, you '11 do very well to leave collecting alone.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.