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The gentleman & cabinet-maker's director / Thomas Chippendale.

By:

Chippendale, Thomas, 1718-1779 [author.]

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Dover books on woodworking and carvingPublisher: New York : Dover Publications, Inc., 1966Description: 20 pages, [219] pages of plates : illustrations ; 31 cmContent type:

text
still image

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

0486216012
9780486216010

Other title:

Gentleman and cabinet-maker's director

Subject(s):

Genre/Form:

Handbooks and manuals.

Additional physical formats: Online version:: Gentleman & cabinet-maker's director.Summary: Unabridged republication of the third edition (1762) of Thomas Chippendale's catalogue of furniture designs, representing prevailing furniture styles, particularly French (Louis XV), Gothic, and Chinese-manner pieces. Plates contain drawings with construction diagrams, elevations, and enlargements of moldings and other details. This reprint includes a biographical sketch of Thomas Chippendale by N.I. Bienenstock, and a supplement of photographs of eighteenth-century Chippendale-style pieces and pieces executed by Chippendale.

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Books	Jost Bürgi Library Reading Room	NK2542.C5 A3 1762a (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		31560000008629

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"Reprint of the third edition with a biographical sketch and photographic supplement of Chippendale-type furniture."

"Unabridged and unaltered republication of the third ed. published by the author in London in 1762"--Title page verso

Facsimile reprint. With title: 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 ... to which is prefixed, a short explanation of the five orders of architecture; with proper directions for executing the most difficult pieces ... / by Thomas Chippendale.

Unabridged republication of the third edition (1762) of Thomas Chippendale's catalogue of furniture designs, representing prevailing furniture styles, particularly French (Louis XV), Gothic, and Chinese-manner pieces. Plates contain drawings with construction diagrams, elevations, and enlargements of moldings and other details. This reprint includes a biographical sketch of Thomas Chippendale by N.I. Bienenstock, and a supplement of photographs of eighteenth-century Chippendale-style pieces and pieces executed by Chippendale.

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