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, cofas, 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 ...
Thomas Chippendale's furniture pattern book, third edition, published in London in 1762 for cabinet-makers, upholsterers and gentleman clients ordering household pieces. The 200 copper plates show chairs, beds, bookcases, mirrors and chimney-pieces in outline elevation and section, often two or three variants per sheet, with rococo scrollwork, pierced Gothic tracery, Chinese railing and fretwork drawn at usable scale alongside enlarged mouldings and measured dimensions.
