Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Tudor to Stuart, Vol. 1
The collecting habit is not confined to the u ealthy. When the whole history of man comes to be written we shall read that he is a collect ing animal. Acquisitiveness is inborn in the majority - it is only a matter of degree - and recognising this, together with the fact that there are little things worth collecting as well as great this series sets out to be a guide to the collector of moderate means. The first volume deals with the period from early times to James II., during which oak was the wood generally in use for the making of furniture. To arrive at a representative list of illustrations we have gone both to public and private collee tions, as well as to the floating stocks of well known London and provincial antique dealers. We should express our thanks to the Director and Secretary of the Victoria and Albert Museum for permission to reproduce a number of the exhibits, and especially for causing a number of pieces to be specially photographed for us; and also to members of the Museum staff (par ticularly Mr. Oliver Brackett and Mr. H. W. 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.
