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(fol.)\r\n\r\nWith an engraved dedication leaf (counted as plate).\r\n\r\nThe 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-dlabs, 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 hundred 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. / By Thomas Chippendale, cabinet-maker and upholsterer, in St. Martin's Lane, London\n\nHead- and tailpieces.\nPlates are engraved and etched. The dedication leaf is signed \"Darly ft.\". 97 of the numbered plates are signed as designed by Chippendale and engraved by Matthias Darly (78 plates), I. Taylor (26 plates), I.S. Mułler/J. Miller (22 plates), T. Müller (18 plates), W. Foster (17 plates), B. Clowes (9 plate), I. Hulett (3 plates), Hemerich (2 plates), E. 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