Creators of decorative styles; being a survey of the decorative periods in England from 1600 to 1800, with special reference to the masters of applied art who developed the dominant styles
A 1917 survey of English decorative periods from 1600 to 1800 by Walter A. Dyer, published in Garden City, New York, by Doubleday, Page, written for readers of decoration and furniture. Its plates are photographs of chairs, a sideboard, a desk, a sofa table and a marble chimneypiece, each captioned with its museum source, with the pages printed sideways in this scan. A designer could take from them the proportions and joinery of Chippendale, Gothic, Sheraton and Hepplewhite furniture.
