The Talbot J. Taylor collection : furniture, wood-carving, and other branches of the decorative arts (1906)
New York : G.P. Putnam · leaf 64
Z\K Clalbot 3. ^a^lor Collectioit 44 Charles Louis Fouquet and Jean Baptiste Colbert. Louis XIV. had a fancy for books and sprinkled his covers with fleiirs dc lys and the Royal Crown. There is a hook of songs which belonged to him in the library at Talbot House. There, also, are two books with… … The great tl replace in the library is of severe simplicity. Before this stands a beautifully carved altar rail of the seventeenth century (Figure 50) with an angel at either end. This piece is particularly effective where it is placed, for it serves as a
Taylor, Talbot James, 1865 · Decorative arts
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