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chippendale, thomas, 1718-17791
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Chippendale, Thomas, 1718-177911
Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)10
Chippendale, Thomas (1718-1779)6
Chippendale, Thomas Junior [Or the Younger] (1749-1823)1
Chippendale, Thomas, 1749-18231
Christie, Manson & Woods1
Donnell, Edna1
Gilbert, Christopher1
Goodison, Judith1
Harris, Nathaniel1

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Chippendale

Harris, Nathaniel; Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)

1989

Includes index.

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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, shaving-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 hunderd [sic] 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, cabinet-maker and upholsterer, in St. Martin's Lane, London (oversize)

Chippendale, Thomas (1718-1779); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)

MDCCLXII. [1762]

In this issue, the words "chairs, sofas,... for furniture." are laid out in a regular paragraph form. Another issue (ESTC T102007) has this passage laid out in two columns separated by a double rule. ...

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The gentleman and cabinet-maker's director

Chippendale, Thomas (1718-1779)

2005

"... anniversary reprint... to mark the 250th anniversary of the book's original publication in 1754 ..."--T.p. verso.

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The furniture of Thomas Chippendale

Chippendale, Thomas (1718-1779); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019); Partridge, Lewis & Simmons (Firm)

[between 1920 and 1929?]

Each plate accompanied by descriptive letter press on verso of preceding leaf.

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The Master of Chippendale exhibition

Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019); Reindeer Antiques Ltd.

2000

Catalogued from cover.

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The life and work of Thomas Chippendale

Gilbert, Christopher; Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019); Christie, Manson & Woods

1978

Limited edition one-volume set of 500 copies signed by the author. Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection A410: No. 96 of an edition of 500 copies.

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The life and work of Thomas Chippendale Junior

Goodison, Judith; Chippendale, Thomas Junior [or The Younger] (1749-1823); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)

[2017]

Includes bibliographical references (pages 452-454) and index.

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The creators of the Chippendale style

Kimball, Fiske (1888-1955); Donnell, Edna; Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019); Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)

1929

Originally published in: Metropolitan museum studies; volume 1, 1928-1929. New York : The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1929. Includes bibliographical references.

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The gentleman & cabinet-maker's director : reprint of the third edition with a biographical sketch and photographic supplement of Chippendale-type furniture

Chippendale, Thomas (1718-1779); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)

1966

"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 : bei...

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