• Media type: E-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
  • Contributor: Chippendale, Thomas [Author]
  • imprint: London: 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 Edinburgh, by Messrs. Hamilton and Balfour: and at Dublin, by Mr. John Smith, on the Blind-Quay, [1754]
    Online-Ausg.: Farmington Hills, Mich: Cengage Gale, 2009
  • Extent: Online-Ressource ([4],x,27,[1]p.,plates); 2°
  • Language: English
  • Keywords: Chippendale, Thomas 1718-1779 ; Decoration and ornament Chippendale style ; Furniture Early works to 1800 ; Furniture England History 18th century
  • Reproductino series: Eighteenth Century Collections Online
  • Type of reproduction: Online-Ausg.
  • Place of reproduction: Farmington Hills, Mich: Cengage Gale, 2009
  • Reproduction note: Electronic reproduction; Available via the World Wide Web
  • Origination:
  • Footnote: Braces in imprint
    English Short Title Catalog, T129806
    Reproduction of original from British Library
    The third leaf is an engraved dedication
    Titlepage in red and black
    With a half-title and a list of subscribers