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TABLES 
Edinburgh is twelve feet nine inches in length by 
seven feet nine inches in width. Another of similar 
size was published by Mr. Robinson in "The Art 
Journal" for June, 1881. These great tables were 
supplied with a leaf on each side, and with oval end 
pieces made separate from the main table. An oval 
end piece which had belonged to such a table is pre- 
served in the rooms of the Connecticut Historical 
Society of Hartford. Its framework is very heavy, 
the legs being three and five eighths inches square 
between the turnings. The width of the top is seven 
feet four inches, and this is not quite as wide as the 
main table of which it was a part. 
A little table with a folding frame of this same 
style, but with a circular top in one piece, is shown 
in Fig. 99 from the Hosmer collection. The table 
is made to stand on the floor and to support its top 
in the horizontal position by placing the two por- 
tions of the frame at right angles with each other. 
By folding these parallel with each other the top 
falls on a hinge to a vertical line, just as is often 
seen in stands and stand tables, and the table thus 
folded being unable to support itself is placed in a 
closet, or against the wall at the side of the room. 
A style of table very common in New England, 
from about the beginning of the eighteenth century, 
is shown in Fig. ioo from the Hosmer collection. 
The tops were usually round or oval, but sometimes