The cabinet-maker and upholsterer's guide; or, repository of designs for every article of household furniture, in the newest and most approved taste: displaying a great variety of patterns for Chairs Stools Sofas Confidante Duchesse Side Boards Pedestals and Vases Cellerets Knife-Cases Desk and Book-Cases Secretary and Book-Cases Library Cases Library Tables Reading Desks Chests of Drawers Urn Stands Tea Caddies Tea Trays Card Tables Pier Tables Pembroke Tables Tambour Tables Dressing Glasses Dressing Tables and Drawers Commodes Rudd's Table Bidets Night Tables Bason Stands Wardrobes Pot Cupboards Brackets Hanging Shelves Fire Screens Beds Field Beds Sweep Tops for Ditto Bed Pillars Candle Stands Lamps Pier Glasses Terms for Busts Cornices for Library Cases, Wardrobes, &c. at large Ornamented Tops for Pier Tables, Pembroke Tables, Commodes, &c. &c. In the plainest and most enriched styles; with a scale to each, and an explanation in letter press. Also the plan of a room, shewing the proper distribution of the furniture. The whole exhibiting near three hundred different designs, engraved on one hundred and twenty-seven plates. From drawings by A. Heppelwhite and Co. Cabinet-Makers
Details
Type of record: Book
Title: The cabinet-maker and upholsterer's guide; or, repository of designs for every article of household furniture, in the newest and most approved taste: displaying a great variety of patterns for Chairs Stools Sofas Confidante Duchesse Side Boards Pedestals and Vases Cellerets Knife-Cases Desk and Book-Cases Secretary and Book-Cases Library Cases Library Tables Reading Desks Chests of Drawers Urn Stands Tea Caddies Tea Trays Card Tables Pier Tables Pembroke Tables Tambour Tables Dressing Glasses Dressing Tables and Drawers Commodes Rudd's Table Bidets Night Tables Bason Stands Wardrobes Pot Cupboards Brackets Hanging Shelves Fire Screens Beds Field Beds Sweep Tops for Ditto Bed Pillars Candle Stands Lamps Pier Glasses Terms for Busts Cornices for Library Cases, Wardrobes, &c. at large Ornamented Tops for Pier Tables, Pembroke Tables, Commodes, &c. &c. In the plainest and most enriched styles; with a scale to each, and an explanation in letter press. Also the plan of a room, shewing the proper distribution of the furniture. The whole exhibiting near three hundred different designs, engraved on one hundred and twenty-seven plates. From drawings by A. Heppelwhite and Co. Cabinet-Makers
Classmark: Bedford Collection A610
Creator(s): A. Hepplewhite and Co
Additional creator(s): Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019) (Former owner)
Publisher: printed by I. and J. Taylor, at the Architectural Library, no. 56, Holborn, opposite Great Turn-Stile
Publication city: London
Date(s): M DCC LXXXIX. [1789]
Language: English
Size and medium: 4, iv, [2], 24 pages
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/729097
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991019660449605181
Description
With four pages of advertisements bound at beginning.
With index.
Bedford Collection copy A610 has 2 pages of advertisements bound at the end: A catalogue of modern books on architecture, &c., I and J Taylor's Architectural Library, No. 56, High Holborn, London.
Indexed in: ESTC,
Features
Leeds University Library copy at A610: excerpt from sale catalogue for this item pasted into front flyleaf; loose note in John Bedford's hand comparing the plates in the first and second editions.
Bindings
Leeds University Library copy at A610: contemporary tree calf, re-backed and re-cornered, gold tooled on spine.
Provenance
Leeds University Library copy at A610: From the John Evan Bedford Library, gifted in 2019. Twenty-first-century pictorial bookplate on front pastedown: John Evan Bedford. Former shelfmark: FEo/9.
Access and usage
Access
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