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Salvaging the past: this richly detailed book is a pioneering contribution to the scholarship of the period room.(Moving Rooms: The Trade in Architectural Salvages)(Book review)
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Apollo
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June 1, 2008| Author:
Jenkins, Susan
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Moving Rooms: The Trade in Architectural Salvages
JOHN HARRIS
Yale University Press, 30 [pounds sterling]/$65
ISBN 100300124201
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John Harris's dense new book is a study of the connoisseurship of the period room, filled with the erudition and vitality characteristic of the author. The book's frontispiece is the rifle page of the Catalogue 'of all the Materials of the Dwelling-House, Out-Houses &c Of His G...
