WRITING DESKS._The Every-day Book and Table Book. v. 3 (of 3) Everlasting Calerdar of Popular Amusements, Sports, Pastimes, Ceremonies, Manners, Customs and Events, Incident to Each of the Three Hundred and Sixty-five Days, in past and Present Times; Forming a Complete History of the Year, Month, and Seasons, and a Perpetual Key to the Almanac

There is not any mention of writing-desks among the ancients. They

usually wrote upon the knee in the manner wherein Angelica Kauffman

represents the younger Pliny, as may be seen in a modern engraving; and

yet it appears from Stolberg, quoted by Mr. Fosbroke, that desks

resembling ours have been found in Herculaneum. Writing-desks in the

middle ages slanted so much, as to form an angle of forty-five degrees:

their slant till within the last two centuries was little less.

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The Every-day Book and Table Book. v. 3 (of 3) Everlasting Calerdar of Popular Amusements, Sports, Pastimes, Ceremonies, Manners, Customs and Events, Incident to Each of the Three Hundred and Sixty-five Days, in past and Present Times; Forming a Complete History of the Year, Month, and Seasons, and a Perpetual Key to the Almanac · 第 1026 / 1847 题