The gentleman and cabinet-maker's director
Subtitle: 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, cofas, 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 hundred copper-plates, neatly engraved ...
By: by Thomas Chippendale, cabinet-maker and upholsterer, in St. Martin's Lane, London
Contributors: Darly, Matthias; T. Becket and P. A. de Hondt
Edition: The third edition.
Publisher: Printed for the author, and sold at his house, in St. Martin's Lane; Also by T. Becket and P.A. De Hondt, in the Strand
Published: 1762
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 20
Subjects: Early works to 1800; Chippendale style; Furniture design; History; Decoration and ornament; Chinese influences; Furniture
Notes: First published 1754, 2nd ed. 1755.

Leaf following title is engraved dedication to Prince William Henry.

Many plates engraved by Matthias Darly; others by Butler Clowes, W. Foster, Cornelius Heinrich Hemerich, James Hulett, Morris, Johann Sebastien Müller, Tobias Müller, Edward Rooker, Isaac Taylor.

Signatures: pi² A-E².

Binding: calfskin, rebacked preserving original backstrip. Double frame of blind & gilt fillets on boards. Spine gilt tooled, title on red labe. Edges gilt.

Bookplate of Morant & Co., 91 New Bond St. Pencilled inscription on 2nd front free endpaper: Presented by "Gen. Edward Lawes Pym". R.M.L.I. to S(?).D. Greenbank, June 21st 1886.