Hidden Bibliographic Details
| Varying Form of Title: | Gentleman and cabinet-maker's director
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| ISBN: | 0486216012
9780486216010
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| Notes: | "Reprint of the third edition with a biographical sketch and photographic supplement of Chippendale-type furniture"--Title page.
"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.
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| 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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| Other form: | Online version: Chippendale, Thomas, 1718-1779. Gentleman & cabinet-maker's director. New York, Dover Publications [1966]
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