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.
Edition:
The third edition
Published / Created:
London : Printed for the author, and sold at his House in St. Martin's Lane : MDCCLXII [1762]
Physical Description:
[4], 20 pages, CC leaves of plates : chiefly illustrations ; 48 cm (folio)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
Engravings by Matthias Darly, Johann Sebastien Müller, Tobias Müller, Butler Clowes, James Taylor, James Hulett, Edward Rooker, Isaac Taylor and W. Foster; after Thomas Chippendale.
Subject Terms:
Decoration and ornament -- Chippendale style -- Early works to 1800. | Furniture -- England -- Early works to 1800. | Cabinetwork -- England -- Early works to 1800. | Cabinetwork -- England -- Early works to 1800.
Form/Genre:
Engravings -- 1762. | Etchings -- 1762.
Contributors:
T. Becket and P.A. de Hondt, printer. | Clowes, Butler, -1782, engraver. | Darly, Matthias, engraver. | Foster, W., active 1762, engraver. | Hulett, James, -1771, engraver. | Muller, Johann Stephan, 1730–1768, engraver. | Müller, Tobias, active 1744–1790, engraver. | Taylor, Isaac, 1730–1807, engraver. | Taylor, James, 1745–1797, engraver. | Rooker, Edward, -1774, engraver.