The furniture designs of Thomas Chippendale
Details
Type of record: Book
Title: The furniture designs of Thomas Chippendale
Other titles: Gentleman and cabinet-maker's director (1754)
Classmark: Bedford Collection G095
Additional creator(s): Chippendale, Thomas (1718-1779) (Designer); Bell, J Munro (Contributor); Hayden, Arthur (1868-1946) (Contributor); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019) (Former owner)
Related people: Chippendale, Thomas, 1718-1779
Publisher: Gibbings
Publication city: London
Date(s): 1910
Language: English
Size and medium: xxiv pages, 63 leaves of plates
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/740431
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991008660139705181
Description
Contains reproduction of title page of 1754 edition: The gentleman and cabinet-maker's director : being a large collection of the most elegant and useful designs of household 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 : 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 : by Thomas Chippendale, of St. Martin's Lane, Cabinet-Maker. London, printed for the author and sold at his house in St. Martin's Lane. M. DCCLIV.
Includes index.
Provenance
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection G095: From the John Evan Bedford Library, gifted in 2019. Twenty-first-century pictorial bookplate on front pastedown: John Evan Bedford. Former reference: G095. Bookseller's label on front pastedown: The Galignani Library.
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