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 ... (1762)
Chippendale, Thomas, 1718-1779, Darly, Matthias, T. Becket and P. A. de Hondt · London : Printed for the author, and sold at his house, in St. Martin's Lane : Also by T. Becket and P.A. De Hondt, in the Strand · leaf 30
es. I would recommend the ornamental Parts to be of wrought Brafs, andas they may be made to take off, will be eafdy cleaned. PLATES CXCII. CXCIIL Eight Defigns of Frets. PLATES CXCIV. CXCV. Ten Defigns of Borders for Paper-Hangings. PLATE CXCVI. Three Defigns of Fret-Work. PLATES CXCVII. CXCVIII.…
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