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Author	Chippendale, Thomas, 1718-1779.
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 / by Thomas Chippendale.
Publication Info.	New York : Towse Pub. Co., 1938.

Location	Call No.	Status
Closed Stack Flat	749 C CS Flat	ASK AT CIRCULATION DESK

Description	[28] p., CXCIX (i.e. 201) plates on 202 p. : chiefly ill. ; 49 cm.
Note	"Including a great variety of chairs, sofas, beds, and couches [etc.] ... 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 ... "
	Reprint (1st work). Originally published: 3rd ed. London : Printed for the author, MDCCLXII [1762].
Contents	The gentleman and cabinet maker's director -- Supplement. A gallery of Chippendale furniture and a sketch of Chippendale's life and works / by Walter Rendell Storey -- American furniture vogue of this era as interpreted by the prominent firms ... through whose cooperation this book is published.
Local Note	Library copy lacks "American furniture vogue of this era ... " section.
Subject	Chippendale, Thomas, 1718-1779.
	Furniture.
	Furniture -- England.
	Interior decoration -- United States.
	Decoration and ornament -- Chippendale style.
Added Author	Storey, Walter Rendell, b. 1881. Gallery of Chippendale furniture and a sketch of Chippendale's life and works.
Added Title	Gallery of Chippendale furniture and a sketch of Chippendale's life and works.

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