Furniture - Early works to 1800
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The gentleman and cabinet-maker's director . Being a large collection of the most elegant and useful designs of houshold furniture In The Gothic, Chinese and Modern Taste: Including a great Variety of Book-Cases for Libraries or Private Rooms. Commodes, Library and Writing-Tables, Buroes, Breakfast-Tables, Dressing and China-Tables, China-Cases, Hanging-Shelves, Tea-Chests, Trays, Fire-Screens, Chairs, Settees, Sopha's, Beds, Presses and Cloaths-Chests, Pier-Glass Sconces, Slab Frames, Brackets, Candle-Stands, Clock-Cases, Frets, And Other Ornaments. To Which IS Prefixed. A Short Explanation of the Five Orders of Architecture, and Rules of Perspective; 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 one hundred and sixty 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, Of St. Martin's-Lane, Cabinet-Maker.
Chippendale, Thomas, 1718-1779.Date: [1754]- E-books
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A catalogue of the household goods and furniture of Edward Mantell, Esq At his House in Castle-Street, Canterbury: Consisting of Variety of Beds, Bedding, Chairs, Mahogany Tables, large fine Looking Glasses, China, Glass, Kitchen, and other Furniture. To be Sold by Auction, on Tuesday and Wednesday the 21st and 22d Inst. 1762. The Sale to begin each Day at Two O'Clock. The Goods may be view'd on Saturday the 18th and Monday the 20th, before the Day of Sale. As the Price of Second Hand Furniture is greatly reduced by the Number of Sales which have lately been in this City, those at a Distance (who have occasion) may have the Opportunity of being furnish'd at an easy rate.
Roch, ThomasDate: 1762]