The cabinet-maker and upholsterer's drawing-book : in three parts / by Thomas Sheraton, cabinet-maker ...
Alternate Title(s):
Cabinet maker and upholsterer's drawing book.
Published / Created:
London : Printed for the author by T. Bensley ..., 1793.
Physical Description:
xxxiii, [5]-446 p., [65] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 30 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Related Content:
View a selection of digital images in the Yale Center for British Art's online catalogue
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/orbis:3559213
Classification:
Books
Notes:
"Contains Appendix, dated 1793, and Accompaniment, forming 3d and 4th parts, which have separate titlepages, pagination and register."--ESTC(RLIN)
Contents:
The cabinet-maker and upholsterer's drawing book. In three parts. Part I. Containing such geometrical lines and instructions as are highly useful to persons of both branches, illustrated in seven copper plates : to which are added the five orders, exhibited in five different plates, proportioned by modules, minutes, and aliquot parts, according to the most approved authority; together with some account of their antiquity and origin. Part II. On practical perspective. applied to the art of representing all kinds of furniture in different situations; interspersed with something of the theory, for such as would know the principles on which this useful art is founded. The whole illustrated in thirteen copper-plates. Part III. A display of the present taste of household furniture; containing also useful remarks on the manufacturing part of difficult pieces. To which are added, some cornices drawn at large; the method shewn of gaging, working, contracting, and enlarging of any kind together with two methods of representing a drawing-room.
Subject Terms:
Furniture design -- Great Britain -- Early works to 1800. | Furniture -- Great Britain -- Early works to 1800. | Cabinetwork -- Great Britain -- Early works to 1800. | Upholstery -- Great Britain -- Early works to 1800. | Architecture -- Orders -- Early works to 1800. | Perspective -- Early works to 1800. | Interior decoration -- Great Britain -- Early works to 1800. | Bensley, T. -- Printer. | Engraving -- Specimens -- 1793.
Contributors:
Bensley, Thomas, approximately 1760-1835, printer. | Hawkins, engraver. | Cooke, J., engraver. | Thornthwaite, A., active 18th century. | Newton, James, 1748-approximately 1804, engraver. | Barlow, J., engraver. | Terry, Garnet, engraver. | Towes, engraver. | Walker, George, -approximately 1795, engraver. | Caldwall, James, 1739-1819, engraver. | Barrett, G., engraver. | Sheraton, Thomas, 1751-1806. Appendix to the cabinet-maker and upholsterer's drawing-book. | Sheraton, Thomas, 1751-1806. Accompaniment to the cabinet-maker and upholsterer's drawing-book.