Excerpt from The Guide: A Description of the Modern School Furniture Manufactured by Samuel Wales, Jr., No; 14 Bromfield Street, Boston Wales' American School Chairs, represented in the engraving No. 1, in the following leaves. They were the first of this series of improvements; and though a great advance in style and finish has since been made, the original principles which were then relied upon to give strength and durability are unimpaired. These chairs were invented, and first introduced, in 1839; and on the ninth day of June, in that year, the school in the town of Chelsea, Mass, where they were first put in use, commenced operations. Since that time, there has been a constantly increasing interest in this enterprise - a rapid enlargement of the variety of articles, and an unfailing demand - until the enterprise has become so extensive, and its products so widely called for, that nothing less than the plan adopted in this pamphlet could give, on paper, an adequate idea of its extent; and no less than the establishment of a manufactory for the sole purpose, could be confidently relied upon to meet the constant demand with the fidelity and prompt ness due to its importance. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.