"Where next?"  From The World by Chester Glass, 1881.

Did you know that the night sky features both a chair and the Platonic ideal of a chair?  Our illustration appears in St. Nicholas magazine, 1877.

"I have little patience with drawing-room patriotism," from White Poppies by May Kendall, 1893.

This ornate capital G reminds us of Number 2's signature spherical chair in The Prisoner series.  From Loose Rein by Wanderer and illustrated by G. Bowers, 1887.

"The chair was an ugly old gentleman; and what was more, he was winking at Tom Smart."  From The Works of Charles Dickens, Household Edition.

From The Story of Prince Hildebrand and the Princess Ida by Thomas Strong Seccombe, 1880.

"A most extraordinary change seemed to come over it," from the Works of Charles Dickens, Household Edition.

Why is this judge condemning a chair to "the chair" (as it were)?  Well, illegal furniture can include "settees, sofas, chairs and beds" (Splam! Successful Property Letting and Management, 2008).  Our illustration appears in The Windsor Magazine, 1908.

"Wouldn't it be loverly" to have a room somewhere "with one enormous chair"?  That's what Eliza dreamed of in My Fair Lady (1956), though rooms with enormous chairs go back at least as far as 1865, as we see in Punch:

An illustration from an 1859 issue of Punch magazine.

An illustration from a 1901 issue of Punch magazine.

Robinson Crusoe started off as an armchair traveler.  (See evidence, from Little Wide Awake, 1882.)

"Animal, vegetable, or mineral?"  An illustration from a 1914 issue of Saturday Evening Post magazine.

An illustration from a 1911 issue of Hampton's magazine.  The caption reads: "Hallucinations and the World Beyond: Little comfort in a ghost chair."