Desirable commodity or practical necessity? The sale and consumption of second-hand furniture, 1750-1900

Buying for the Home: Shopping for the Domestic from the Seventeenth Century to the Present

Volumn , Issue , 2017, Pages 117-137

  Edwards, Clive ^a   Ponsonby, Margaret ^b  

^a LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WOLVERHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

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