A WILLIAM IV OAK GOTHIC REVIVAL LIBRARY TABLE, by Gillows of Lancaster, with a rectangular top and canted corners above a frieze fitted with two drawers, one stamped GILLOWS, LANCASTER, on pointed arched end-standards and dual supports applied with scrolling foliage on faceted bun feet

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A WILLIAM IV OAK GOTHIC REVIVAL LIBRARY TABLE, by Gillows of Lancaster, with a rectangular top and canted corners above a frieze fitted with two drawers, one stamped GILLOWS, LANCASTER, on pointed arched end-standards and dual supports applied with scrolling foliage on faceted bun feet
50in. (127cm.) wide; 28¾in. (73cm.) high; 28½in. (72.5cm.) deep

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Manufactured by John Mason in 1837, at a cost of #12.14.5½ and illustrated in Gillows of Lancaster's sketch book of August 18th, where it is described as 'an oak sofa table on Gothic pilaster ends' and was supplied with other library furniture to John Edmundson.

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