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Form genre ss Engravings -- 1762.

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1. 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 ... 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 / by Thomas Chippendale, cabinet-maker and upholsterer, in St. Martin's Lane, London.

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Creator:: Chippendale, Thomas, 1718–1779
Date:: MDCCLXII [1762]
Physical Description:: [4], 20 pages, CC leaves of plates : chiefly illustrations ; 48 cm (folio)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. The universal system of houshold furniture : consisting of above 300 designs on the most elegant taste, both useful & ornamental : finely engraved, in which the nature of ornament & perspective, is accurately exemplified : the whole made convenient to the nobility and gentry, in their choice, & comprehensive to the workman, by directions for executing the several designs, with specimens of ornament for young practitioners in drawing / by Ince & Mayhew cabinet-makers & upholders, in Bond Street, Golden Square, London ...

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Creator:: Ince, William, active 18th century
Date:: [1762?]
Physical Description:: iii-iv, 11, [1] pages, [98] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 45 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts