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The rudiments of drawing cabinet and upholstery furniture: comprehending concise and explicit instructions for designing and delineating the different articles of those branches perceptively and geometrically ; thereby producing the effect each piece will have when executed, and also shewing by a scale the real measures for the workmen ; illustrated by appropriate diagrams, and designs proportioned upon architectural principles, after the manner of the antique, on twenty-five plates, each accompanied with classical remarks / Richard Brown

Richard Brown

RA Collection: Book

Record number

06/4413

Author

Imprint

London: Printed for, and sold by, the author, 4, Wells-Street, Oxford-Street; sold also by J. Taylor, at the Architectural Library, High Holborn; W. Reynolds, 137, Oxford-Street; and to be had of all booksellers., 1820

Physical Description

xii, 52 pages : 25 illustrations (some colour) ; 28 cm.

General Note

The printer is named at the foot of the title page and of page 52: `L. Harrison, printer, 373, Strand.'
All 25 plates state that they are drawn by Richard Brown and were published March 2, 1819, by R. Brown, Wells Street, Cavendish-Square. No engraver is given for plates 1-5. Plates 6-25 are engraved by R.W. Smart. Plates 6-22 are partially hand-coloured.
Hand-coloured etching and engraving with aquatint.

Contributors

Richard Brown, publisher, draughtsman
William Reynolds, bookseller
Architectural Library (London), bookseller