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LEADER: 03581cam a2200481 a 4500
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035 $984-B30228
035 $a(OCoLC)83471330
035 $a38071
040 $a*S.U.N.Y. - Binghamton*$dCStRLIN$dMdBJ$dICA$dJPG$edcrb
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100 1 $aChippendale, Thomas,$d1718-1779.
245 14 $aThe gentleman and cabinet-maker's director :$bbeing a large collection of the most elegant and useful designs of household furniture, in the most fashionable taste : including a great variety of chairs, cofas, beds, and couches : china-tables, dressing-tables, shaving-tables, bason-stands, and teakettle-stands : frames for marble-slabs, bureau-dressing-tables, and commodes : writing-tables, and library-tables : library-book-cases, organ-cases for private rooms, or churches, desks, and book-cases : dressing and writing-tables with book-cases, toilets, cabinets, and cloaths-presses : china-cases, china-shelves, and book-shelves : candle-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 table-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 ... /$cby Thomas Chippendale, cabinet-maker and upholsterer, in St. Martin's Lane, London.
250 $aThe third edition.
260 $aLondon :$bPrinted for the author, and sold at his house, in St. Martin's Lane :$bAlso by T. Becket and P.A. De Hondt, in the Strand,$cMDCCLXII [1762]
300 $a[4], 20 p., [1], CC leaves of plates :$bchiefly ill. ;$c46 cm.
500 $aFirst published 1754, 2nd ed. 1755.
500 $aLeaf following title is engraved dedication to Prince William Henry.
500 $aMany plates engraved by Matthias Darly; others by Butler Clowes, W. Foster, Cornelius Heinrich Hemerich, James Hulett, Morris, Johann Sebastien Müller, Tobias Müller, Edward Rooker, Isaac Taylor.
500 $aSignatures: pi² A-E².
590 $aBinding: calfskin, rebacked preserving original backstrip. Double frame of blind & gilt fillets on boards. Spine gilt tooled, title on red labe. Edges gilt.
590 $aBookplate of Morant & Co., 91 New Bond St. Pencilled inscription on 2nd front free endpaper: Presented by "Gen. Edward Lawes Pym". R.M.L.I. to S(?).D. Greenbank, June 21st 1886.
650 0 $aDecoration and ornament$xChippendale style.
650 0 $aFurniture design$zEngland$vEarly works to 1800.
650 0 $aFurniture$zEngland$xHistory$y18th century.
650 0 $aDecoration and ornament$xChinese influences$vEarly works to 1800.
655 7 $aPattern books$zEngland$y18th century.$2aat
655 7 $aEngravings$zEngland$y18th century.$2aat
700 1 $aDarly, Matthias.
710 2 $aT. Becket and P. A. de Hondt.
752 $aEngland$dLondon.
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906 1 $bAcanthus Books$cNew York.
907 1 $d3000
909 1 $aGW
921 $ab10385733$b06-04-98$c04-11-95$dsc$e20070830
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947 $aoclc mm 5/97
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981 1 $b1$c11/27/84 REC$dMAIN$eMAIN