Ancient and Modern Furniture and Woodwork

This brilliant work by English writer on crafts and furniture, John Hungerford Pollen (1820–1902), is an interesting study of ancient and modern furniture and woodwork. He carefully reviews them and carries us back to the days in which these pieces of artistic furniture were made. This work makes the reader familiar to the taste and techniques, the habits and the needs, of those olden ages which eventually leads to a comparison between the furniture and woodwork of that era and the modern times.

Contents include:

Furniture Ancient and Modern

Antique: Egypt, Nineveh and Greece

The Romans

Byzantine Art

The Middle Ages

The Fifteenth Century

The Renaissance in Italy

Renaissance in England, Flanders, France, Germany, and Spain

Tudor and Stuart Styles

Furniture of the Eighteenth Century

Changes of Taste and Style

Appendix: Names of the Designers of Woodwork and Makers of Furniture