Regency Period Furniture Vol. 1

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REGENCY PERIOD FURNITURE, Volume One contains over 235 photographs and descriptions of Regency-era furniture such as Recamier sofas, settees, gilt-wood chairs, a Regency wheelchair, eighteen photographs of pianofortes, spinets, and a rare lyraflugel; japanned benches and window seats, draperies, rout chairs, corner chairs, a cylinder bureau bookcase, butler's sideboard, pie-crust tea tables, a teapoy table, Pembroke tables, drum tables, a lanterloo table, ladies writing desks, a rare Military bed used by a British General and his lady; a Harlequin desk, a Carlton House desk, Grecian sofas, a child's bed, a day-bed, a chiffonier, coal bins, chamber pot, actual Regency room settings, plus color plates of furniture from Ackermann’s Repositories dated 1811-1815 and much, much more. Volume One also contains articles reprinted from The Regency Plume Newsletter famous English furniture makers, and a Glossary of Furniture Terms used during the Regency period. Author Marilyn Clay is the publisher of The Regency Plume, an international newsletter focused on the English Regency period. The Regency Plume was in circulation from 1991 through 2006. Each issue contains well-researched and documented articles written by authors and historians of the Regency period. All back issues of the newsletter are still available for purchase from The Regency Plume website. In addition, Marilyn Clay is the author of over a dozen historical novels including Deceptions: A Colonial Jamestown Novel, published in hardcover in 2010 and now available from major online retailers in both print and digital editions; A Petticoat And Lambskin Gloves, originally published in hardcover in 2012, now available in print and digital editions online; Betsy Ross: Accidental Spy, (released in 2013) available in print and ebook online, and Stalking A Killer, (2014) also available in print and ebook formats, plus six Regency romance novels, no longer in print but available as ebooks online. Two of Marilyn Clay’s non-fiction titles, History of the Water Closet and 18th and 19th English Women At Sea (now available in print) were named to Amazon’s Top 100 Best-Selling Ebooks lists in two categories and remained on those lists for many weeks. A former University Editor with The University of Texas at Dallas and for many years, a professional commercial artist, Marilyn Clay designed the Romance Writers of America’s RITA award statuette and received the first RITA award ever presented at the RWA Conference in San Francisco when the RITA was unveiled. The author currently resides in Oklahoma. You are invited to visit her website at: Marilyn Clay Author.