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Thomas Chippendale Furniture Gentleman Cabinet Maker Director

A Gallery of Chippendale Furniture and A Sketch of Chippendale's Work by Walter Rendell Storey

The Third Edition published 1938 (very hard to find)
Two hundred plates
Large folio size: 18" X 12"
Hardback, no dust jacket
Condition: No dust cover, binding tight, page slightly yellow but clean.

From the cover page:

The Gentleman and Cabinetmaker 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, beds. couches, china-tables, dressing tables, shaving tables, basin stands, teakettle stands, frames for marble slabs, bureau-dressing tables, commodes, writing tables, library tables, library book cases, organ cases for private rooms or churches, desks, dressing and writing tables with book cases, toilets, cabinets, clothes presses, china cases, china shelves, candles 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 tables-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.

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.

A great gift for the Antique Collector or Furniture Restorer