The gentleman and cabinet-maker's director. Being a large collection of the most elegant and useful designs of houshold 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. To which is prefixed. A short explanation of the five orders of architecture, and rules of perspective; 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 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 (oversize)
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Type of record: Book
Title: The gentleman and cabinet-maker's director. Being a large collection of the most elegant and useful designs of houshold 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. To which is prefixed. A short explanation of the five orders of architecture, and rules of perspective; 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 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 (oversize)
Classmark: Bedford Collection K045
Creator(s): Chippendale, Thomas (1718-1779)
Additional creator(s): Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019) (Former owner)
Related people: Chippendale, Thomas, 1718-1779
Publisher: printed for the author, and sold at his house in St. Martin's-Lane. MDCCLIV. Also by T. Osborne, bookseller, in Gray's-Inn; H. Piers, bookseller, in Holborn; R. Sayer, print-seller, in Fleetstreet; J. Swan, near Northumberland-House, in the Strand. At Edi
Publication city: London
Date(s): [1754]
Language: English
Size and medium: [4],x,27,[1]p.,plates
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/741584
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991020017994705181
Description
Titlepage in red and black.
With a half-title and a list of subscribers.
The third leaf is an engraved dedication.
Indexed in: ESTC
Features
Bindings
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection K043: modern (20th century?) full red morocco, gold tooled on covers, edges and spine, marbled endpapers, gilt fore-edges, red cloth slipcase.
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection K045: full brown suede, green cloth slipcase with quarter calf spine.
Provenance
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection K043: From the John Evan Bedford Library, gifted in 2019. Twenty-first-century pictorial bookplate on front flyleaf: John Evan Bedford. Former reference: FEo/68.
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection K045 [another copy]: From the John Evan Bedford Library, gifted in 2019. Twenty-first-century pictorial bookplate on front pastedown: John Evan Bedford. Former reference: FEo/3.
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