The gentleman & cabinet-maker's director : reprint of the third edition with a biographical sketch and photographic supplement of Chippendale-type furniture
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Type of record: Book
Title: The gentleman & cabinet-maker's director : reprint of the third edition with a biographical sketch and photographic supplement of Chippendale-type furniture
Classmark: Bedford Collection B418
Creator(s): Chippendale, Thomas (1718-1779)
Additional creator(s): Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019) (Former owner)
Related people: Chippendale, Thomas, 1718-1779
Publisher: Dover Publications
Publication city: New York
Date(s): 1966
Language: English
Size and medium: 20 pages, [219] pages of plates
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/730782
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991019912160905181
Description
"Unabridged and unaltered republication of the third ed. published by the author in London in 1762"--Title page verso.
Facsimile reprint. With title: The gentleman and cabinet-maker's director : being a large collection of the most elegant and useful designs of household furniture, in the most fashionable taste. Including a great variety of chairs, sofas, beds, and couches; china-tables, dressing-tables, bason-stands, and teakettle-stands ; frames for marble-slabs, bureau-dressing-tables, and commodes ; writing-tables, and library-tables ; library-book-cases, organ-cases for private rooms or churches, desks, and book-cases ; dressing and writing-tables with book-cases, toilets, cabinets, and cloaths-presses ; china-cases, china-shelves, and book-shelves ; candle-stands, terms for busts, stands for china jars and pedestals ; cisterns for water, lanthorns, and chandeliers ; fire-screens, brackets, and clock-cases ; pier-glasses, and table-frames ; girandoles, chimney-pieces, and picture frames ; stove-grates, boarders, frets, Chinese-railing, and brass-work for furniture. And other ornaments. To which is
prefixed, a short explanation of the five orders of architecture; 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 two hundred copper-plate, neatly engraved. Calculated to improve and refine the present taste, and suited to the fancy and circumstances of persons in all degrees of life. By Thomas Chippendale, cabinet-maker and upholsterer, in St. Martin's Lane, London. The third edition. London: printed for the author, and sold at his house, in St. Martin's Lane ; also by T. Becket and P. A. De Hondt, in the Strand. MDCCLXII.
Unabridged republication of the third edition (1762) of Thomas Chippendale's catalogue of furniture designs, representing prevailing furniture styles, particularly French (Louis XV), Gothic, and Chinese-manner pieces. Plates contain drawings with construction diagrams, elevations, and enlargements of moldings and other details. This reprint includes a biographical sketch of Thomas Chippendale by N.I. Bienenstock, and a supplement of photographs of eighteenth-century Chippendale-style pieces and pieces executed by Chippendale.
Provenance
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection B418: From the John Evan Bedford Library, gifted in 2019. Twenty-first-century pictorial bookplate on front page: John Evan Bedford. Former reference: FER/2.
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