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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
By Thomas Chippendale (English, 1718–1779)
1754