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Notes: "Reprint of the Third Edition with a Biographical Sketch and Photographic Supplemental of Chippendale-Type Furniture"--t.p.
Full title of original: 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 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.
Status: Shelf