The Most Important Collection of Furniture Designs to be Published in Eighteenth-Century England
CHIPPENDALE, Thomas. Gentleman and the Cabinet-Maker's Director. Being a large collection of the most elegant and useful designs of houshold furniture in the Gothic, Chinese and Modern Taste: Including a great variety of book-cases for libraries or private rooms, , commodes, library and writing-tables, buroes, breakfast-tables, dressing and china-tables, china-cases, hanging-shelves, tea-chests, trays, fire-screens, chairs, settees, sopha's beds, presses and cloaths-chests, pier-glass sconces, slab frames, brackets, candle-stands, clock-cases, frets, and other ornaments. To which is prefixed, a short explanation of the five orders of architecture, and rules of perspective; with proper directions for executing the most difficult pieces, the mouldings being exhibited at large, and the dimensions of each design specified: The whole comprehended in one hundred and sixty copper-plates, neatly engraved, calculated to improve and refine the present taste, and suited to the fancy and circumstances of persons in all degrees of life. London: Printed for the Author, and sold at his House in St. Martin's-Lane..., 1754.
HBS 64829 $12,500