The cabinet dictionary, : containing an explanation of all the terms used in the cabinet, chair & upholstery branches; with directions for varnish-making, polishing, and gilding. To which is added a supplementary treatise on geometrical lines, perspective, and painting in general. The whole illustrated on eighty-eight handsomely-engraved copper-plates, including a very great variety of the most fashionable pieces of cabinet furniture, and the five orders of architecture in perspective
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Type of record: Book
Title: The cabinet dictionary, : containing an explanation of all the terms used in the cabinet, chair & upholstery branches; with directions for varnish-making, polishing, and gilding. To which is added a supplementary treatise on geometrical lines, perspective, and painting in general. The whole illustrated on eighty-eight handsomely-engraved copper-plates, including a very great variety of the most fashionable pieces of cabinet furniture, and the five orders of architecture in perspective
Classmark: Bedford Collection A081
Creator(s): Sheraton, Thomas (1751-1806)
Additional creator(s): Barlow, J (1759-1810) (Etcher); Caldwall, James (1739-1819) (Etcher); Jones, Maurice (Publisher) (Bookseller); Mathews, J (1774-1814) (Bookseller); Row, W (1839) (Bookseller); Smith, William (1799-1844) (Printer); Warner, J (Etcher); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019) (Former owner); Pesman, FA (Former owner); Westwood, M (Former owner); Vernor and Hood (Bookseller)
Publisher: printed by W. Smith, King Street, Seven Dials : And sold by W. Row, bookseller, Great Marlborough Street; Mathews, No. 18. Strand; Vernor and Hood, Poultry; M. Jones, No. 1, Paternoster Row, and by the author, 8, Broad Street, Golden Square, London
Publication city: London
Date(s): 1803
Language: English
Size and medium: viii, 8, [2], 440 p., 79, 4, 4 leaves of plates (some folded)
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/722351
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991019779291305181
Description
A list of most of the master cabinetmakers, upholsterers, and chair makers, in and about London, for 1803, printed by W. Smith, King Street, Seven Dials: at pages 435-440.
87 engr. plates (many folding) incl. elevations, plans and diagr.
Numbering of the main sequence of plates is variable. The Directions for placing the plates has 80 plates, with no caption given for plate 78. Bedford copy A081 has complete plates [86], except for Perspective section plate 2 [total 87].
Plates are etchings after Sheraton by J. Barlow, J. Caldwell or Warner.
Price beneath imprint: Price 1l. 12s. boards.
With a list of subscribers.
Features
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection A081: loose photocopied pages from bookseller's catalogue, W. H. Collectables, 24, Ipswich Road, Woodbridge, Suffolk; loose MS. notes by John Bedford listing the plates in this item.
Bindings
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection A081: contemporary calf [worn], gold tooled on spine.
Provenance
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection A081: From the John Evan Bedford Library, gifted in 2019. Twenty-first-century pictorial bookplate on front pastedown: John Evan Bedford. Former reference: FEo/78. Nineteenth-century MS. inscription on title page, front and rear pastedown, and rear flyleaf: F A Pesman. Nineteenth-century MS. inscription on title page: M Westwood [i.e. M Westwood, Upholsterer, 32, Crooked-Lane, see p.440 List of master cabinet-makers]. Nineteenth-century MS. annotation on front pastedown [possibly in Westwood's hand]: May 19th went to Gal[?] H [?] R's daughter Jane receipt [?] for cheque [drawn?] by R -.
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