The gentleman & cabinet-maker's director /

The gentleman & cabinet-maker's director /

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Author / Creator:Chippendale, Thomas, 1718-1779.
Imprint:New York : Dover Publications, 1966.
Description:20 pages, [219] pages of plates : illustrations ; 31 cm
Language:English
Subject:
Furniture -- England -- Early works to 1800.
Furniture design -- England -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Decoration and ornament -- Chippendale style.
Furniture -- Drawings.
Cabinetwork -- Drawings.
Architecture -- Orders.
Architecture -- Orders.
Cabinetwork.
Decoration and ornament -- Chippendale style.
Furniture.
Furniture design.
England.
Drawings.
Early works.
Handbooks and manuals.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/3047132
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Varying Form of Title:Gentleman and cabinet-maker's director
ISBN:0486216012
9780486216010
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.
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.
Other form:Online version: Chippendale, Thomas, 1718-1779. Gentleman & cabinet-maker's director. New York, Dover Publications [1966]

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