English Furniture 1660‐1714: From Charles II to Queen Anne

This extensively illustrated book is the first comprehensive review of this subject for some 100 years and will likely establish a new chronology for late seventeenth and early eighteenth century English furniture. The main subject of the book is fashionable English furniture, probably made in London between, as the title indicates, 1660 and 1714.

The author aims to completely revise our understanding and knowledge of the structural and stylistic developments of furniture in this period by basing his research mainly on primary evidence with the intention of re‐establishing historical accuracy. The survey looks to contemporary documents, in particular tradesmen’s bills,...