Excerpt from Decorative Furniture: A Picture Book of the Beautiful Forms of All Ages and All Periods, Egyptian, Assyrian, Greek, Roman, Byzantine, Chinese, Japanese, Persian, Romanesque, Gothic, French Renaissance, Italian Renaissance, Later Italian, Louis XIII, XIV, XV, XVIThe illustrations are the important part of this book. The text furnishes background and scale for the complete understanding of the periods.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.