CF7

General Description: A mahogany dwarf bookcase, c. 1870, with a moulded top over four clear-glazed doors, on a moulded base with six ball feet (Bowett, Adam, 2013)
Researcher Description: These bookcases are of average ‘municipal’ quality. They almost certainly post-date the acquisition of the collection by the Plymouth Proprietary Library (Bowett, Adam, 2013)

The case is made as a rectangular box, presumably dovetailed at the corners. It is divided internally by a central partition housed into grooves in the top and bottom boards. The shelves are housed into grooves in the case sides and into the central partition. The partition has a stile screwed to its forward edge which forms the hanging stile for the two centre doors, while the outer doors are hung on similar stiles at each end. All doors have mortise and tenon frames and butt hinges. The back is panelled and screwed into a rebate. The base moulding is glued to battens on the base; the feet are turned and dowelled into square blocks which are either glued or screwed to the base board. The solid top moulding is applied.

, 1870 c.

wood (mahogany), wood (white pine)

Named Collection: Cottonian Collection