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Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Chippendale, Thomas, 1718â1779
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1762
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Cabinetwork -- England -- Early works to 1800.
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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 ... 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-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.
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Chippendale, Thomas, 1718â1779
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MDCCLXII [1762]
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[4], 20 pages, CC leaves of plates : chiefly illustrations ; 48 cm (folio)
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Rare Books and Manuscripts