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| 100 | 1 | # | $a Chippendale |
| 245 | 1 | 4 | $a The Gentleman And Cabinet-Maker's Director. Being A Large Collection Of The Most Elegant and Useful Designs of Houshold Furniture In The Gothic, Chinese and Modern Taste: Including a great Variety of Book-Cases for Libraries or Private Rooms. Commodes, Library and Writing-Tables, Buroes, Breakfast-Tables, Dressing and China-Tables, China-Cases, Hanging-Shelves, Tea-Chests, Trays, Fire-Screens, Chairs, Settees, Sopha's, Beds, Presses and Cloaths-Chests, Pier-Glass Sconces, Slab Frames, Brackets, Candle-Stands, Clock-Cases, Frets, And Other Ornaments. To Which Is Prefixed, A Short Explanation of the Five Orders of Architecture, and Rules of Perspective; 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 One Hundred and Sixty Copper-Plates, neatly Engraved, Calculated to improve and refine the present Taste, and suited to the Fancy and Circumstances of Persons in all Degrees of Life. - [Epigraph] - By Thomas Chippendale, Of St. Martin's-Lane, Cabinet-Maker. - |
| 260 | # | # | $a London, $b Printed for the Author, and sold at his House in St. Martin's-Lane. $c MDCCLIV. $c [1754] $b Also by T. Osborne, Bookseller, in Gray's-Inn; H. Piers, Bookseller, in Holborn; R. Sayer, Print-seller, in Fleetstreet; J. Swan, near Northumberland-House, in the Strand. $a At Edinburgh, $b by Messrs. Hamilton and Balfour: $a And at Dublin, $b by Mr. John Smith, on the Blind-Quay. |
| 300 | # | # | $a [2], x, 27, [1] p., engr. dedic., 160 [i.e. 161] pl.; $c 463 mm. (Folio.) |
| 500 | # | # | $a There is a bis plate 25. Plate 'CXI' is misnumbered as 'CII'. |
| 505 | 0 | # | $a [Half-t., t.p., engr. dedic.] - The Preface - The Names Of The Subscribers - [Text] - [Plates]. |
| 508 | # | # |
$a The engraved dedication is signed as made by MDarly. The numbered plates are all signed as designed and drawn by T. Chippendale, and most are signed by their engravers - T. Müller, M. Darly or J.S. Müller. The work is dedicated by Thomas Chippendale to Hugh, Earl of Northumberland. The rear pastedown is stamped in green ink, 'Bound By Ex Libris'. |
| 510 | 4 | # | $a ESTC $c T129806 |
| 510 | 3 | # | $a J. Sellars, ed., The art of Thomas Chippendale (2000). |
| 510 | 3 | # | $a C. Gilbert, The life and work of Thomas Chippendale (2 v., 1978). |
| 520 | 2 | # |
$a Most plates carry the publication-date of 1753. The list of subscribers includes both landowners and cabinet-makers. A second edition was published in 1755, and a third in 1762 - the latter including some neoclassical designs. |
| 533 | # | # | $n An electronic reproduction was published in 2003 (Farmington Hills, Mich.: Thomson Gale). A microfilm copy was published in 1986 (Woodbridge CT: Research Publications). |
| 561 | # | # | $a Purchased for RA Library in 1884 (see 'Librarian's Report', RA Annual Report for 1884, pp.53, 55). |
| 563 | # | # | $a 20th-century half calf, marbled-papered boards; red morocco spine-label lettered 'Chippendale Director', spine lettered 'R.A.' and '1754'. |
| 653 | # | # | $a Furniture - Designs - Carpentry - Woodwork - Woodworking - Great Britain - History - 18th century - Rococo - Chinoiserie |
| 655 | # | 0 | $a Pattern books - Manuals - Great Britain - 18th century |
| 655 | # | 0 | $a Pictorial works - Great Britain - 18th century |
| 700 | 1 | # | $a Chippendale $e source artist $e draughtsman $e publisher |
| 700 | 1 | # | $a Osborne $e bookseller |
| 700 | 1 | # | $a Piers $e bookseller |
| 700 | 1 | # | $a Sayer $e bookseller |
| 700 | 1 | # | $a Swan $e bookseller |
| 700 | 1 | # | $a Smith $e bookseller |
| 700 | 1 | # | $a Darly $e engraver |
| 700 | 1 | # | $a Muller $e engraver |
| 700 | 1 | # | $a Miller $e engraver |
| 710 | 2 | # | $a Hamilton and Balfour $e bookseller |
| 710 | 2 | # | $a Ex Libris $e binder |