Excerpt from The Practical Book of Period Furniture: Treating of Furniture of the English, American Colonial and Post-Colonial and Principal French Periods Appear. For many courtesies and not a little assistance they record their Sincere thanks to Messrs. Richard W. Lehne, Hale and Kilburn Co., E. J. Holmes and Co., the Chapman Decorative Co., James Curran and A. F. C. Bateman, all of Philadelphia; Cooper and Griffith, Arthur S. Vernay, H. Burlingham and C. J. Dearden, of New York; C. J. Charles, Gill and Reigate and Maple and Co., of London and New York; Robson and Sons of London; the Officials of the Metropolitan Museum, New York, the Pennsylvania Museum and School of Industrial Arts, Philadelphia, the Pennsylvania His. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.