A brass-mounted pitch-pine bookcase by Sir Charles Eastlake, with a rectangular chamfered top, centred by a square tapering butt with faceted finial and hinged drop-flap compartment, above pediment with moulded dentil freeze with adjustable shelves, the lower part with a pair of panel doors above two small drawers and four shelves, each with a blind-drilled roundel and two geometrically carved bands above an arched foot, the back with a paper label, indistinctly printed Imperial Treasury/Cream Lane/Writing Paper/Thos Delarue, London