The gentleman and cabinet-maker's director : being a large collection of the most elegant and useful designs of household furniture in the Gothic, Chinese, and modern taste ... : 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 ... / by Thomas Chippendale ...

Accession number

PML 53030

Creator

Chippendale, Thomas, 1718-1779.

Published

London : Printed by J. Haberkorn ... for the author, and sold at his house in St. Martin's-Lane, also by T. Osborne [and 5 others], 1754.

Credit line

Gift of Henry S. Morgan, 1962.

Notes

Plates engraved by Tobias Müller (fl. 1754-90), Matthew Darly (fl. 1754-1778), Butler Clowes (d. 1782), Isaac I. Taylor (1730-1807), Edward Rooker (1711-1774), Johann Sebastian Müller (1715-1785), William Foster ? (d. 1812), James Hulett (d. 1771) and Hemerick.
PML copy without half-title page. Plates 14 and 15 in first state, with Arabic rather than Roman numerals.

Description

[2], x, 27, [1] p., CLX [i.e. 161] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 45 cm.

Provenance

Jane Norton Morgan's collection.

Binding

Red morocco, gilt.

Classification

Book

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