“My Lady’s Chamber” by British artist Walter Crane, the frontispiece of The House Beautiful: Essays on Beds and Tables, Stools and Candlesticks by Clarence Cook (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1881). In 1877, Cook , an American author and art critic, published a series of articles on interior design and furnishings for Scribner’s Monthly, which were gathered together the next year for the first edition of this book, which became Cook’s best known work.