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Record ID 87860
Library: Craigston Castle Library. Register: Register (1768-1830, Type: Other). Page: 09
Chippendale's Designs
Borrowed: 1782/9/2 (Monday).
William Henderson
Gender: Male.
Borrower entry: Willm Henderson.
Thomas Chippendale (Male, born 1718, died 1779)
Genre: Practical Arts/Useful Knowledge
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
Confidence level: Certain
Thomas Chippendale (Male, born 1718, died 1779)
Genre: Practical Arts/Useful Knowledge
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. Including a great variety of chairs, sofas, beds, and couches; china-tables, dressing-tables, shaving-tables, bason-stands, and teakettle-stands; frames for marble-slabs, bureau-dressing-tables, and commodes; writing-tables, and library-tables; library-book-cases, organ-cases for private rooms, or churches, desks, and book-cases; dressing and writing-tables with book-cases, toilets, cabinets, and cloaths-presses; china-cases, china-shelves, and book-shelves; candle-stands, terms for busts, stands for china jars, and pedestals; cisterns for water, lanthorns, and chandeliers; fire-screens, brackets, and clock-cases; pier-glasses, and table-frames; girandoles, chimney-pieces, and picture-frames; stove-grates, boarders, frets, chinese-railing, and brass-work, for furniture. And other ornaments. 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 hunderd [sic] 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.
Language: English . Published: London. Date of publication: 1762. Format: folio.
Number of borrowings: 1
ESTC: N505552
Thomas Chippendale (Male, born 1718, died 1779)
Genre: Practical Arts/Useful Knowledge
Gentleman and Cabinet-maker’s Director
Borrowed: 1782/9/2 (Monday).
Borrower: William Henderson
Author: Thomas Chippendale (Male, born 1718, died 1779), Genre: Practical Arts/Useful Knowledge