The chair-maker's guide; Being upwards of two hundred new and genteel designs, both decorative and plain, of all the most approved patterns for gothic, chinese, ribbon and other chairs, couches, settees, burjairs, french, dressing and corner stools, adapted for halls, lobbies, dining, drewing and dressing rooms, parlours, bed-chambers, summer-houses, seats for gardens, parks, woods, &c. Many of the rural kind may be excuted with rude branches, or limbs of trees, &c. By Robert Manwaring, cabinet-maker, and others. The whole neatly engraved on seventy-five copper-plates
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Type of record: Book
Title: The chair-maker's guide; Being upwards of two hundred new and genteel designs, both decorative and plain, of all the most approved patterns for gothic, chinese, ribbon and other chairs, couches, settees, burjairs, french, dressing and corner stools, adapted for halls, lobbies, dining, drewing and dressing rooms, parlours, bed-chambers, summer-houses, seats for gardens, parks, woods, &c. Many of the rural kind may be excuted with rude branches, or limbs of trees, &c. By Robert Manwaring, cabinet-maker, and others. The whole neatly engraved on seventy-five copper-plates
Classmark: Bedford Collection A065
Creator(s): Manwaring, Robert
Additional creator(s): Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019) (Former owner); Constable, William (1721-91) (Former owner)
Publisher: Printed for Robert Sayer, map and printseller at the Golden Buck, near Serjeants-Inn, Fleet-street
Publication city: London
Date(s): MDCCLXVI. [1766]
Language: English
Size and medium: [2]p., 75plates
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/722349
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991019764649405181
Collection group(s): John Evan Bedford Library of Furniture History
Description
Titlepage in letterpress.
Bedford Collection A083 is incomplete: a single copy of plate 69, summer house chair only.
Indexed in: Christopher Gilbert, Furniture History Society Journal,
Indexed in: ESTC
Features
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection A065: excerpt from sale catalogue for the item pasted into front flyleaf; loose note in John Bedford's hand clarifying which publications certain plates came from, see also FHS Journal, 129, 1993.
Bindings
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection A065: contemporary calf, gold tooled on spine, with spine label Chair Maker's Guide.
Provenance
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection A065: From the John Evan Bedford Library, gifted in 2019. Twenty-first-century pictorial bookplate on front pastedown: John Evan Bedford. Former shelfmark/reference: FEo/7. Eighteenth-century armorial bookplate on front pastedown: Wm. Constable Esqr. F.R.S & F.A.S [i.e. William Constable (1721-91), naturalist, collector, of Burton Constable Hall, Yorkshire, see Franks Bequest 6646].
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