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Author additional ss Rooker, Edward, -1774, engraver.

Collection Rare Books and Manuscripts

Work Type etching

1. 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 ... 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.

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Creator:: Chippendale, Thomas, 1718–1779
Date:: MDCCLXII [1762]
Physical Description:: [4], 20 pages, CC leaves of plates : chiefly illustrations ; 48 cm (folio)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. Designs of Chinese buildings, furniture, dresses, machines, and utensils / engraved by the best hands, from the originals drawn in China by Mr. Chambers, architect, member of the Imperial Academy of Arts at Florence ; to which is annexed a description of their temples, houses, gardens, &c.

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Creator:: Chambers, William, Sir, 1723–1796
Date:: MDCCLVII [1757]
Physical Description:: [10], 19, [1] pages, XXI leaves of plates : illustrations ; 58 cm (folio)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. A treatise on civil architecture : in which the principles of that art are laid down, and illustrated by a great number of plates, accurately designed, and elegantly engraved by the best hands / by William Chambers ...

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Creator:: Chambers, William, Sir, 1723–1796
Date:: MDCCLIX [1759]
Physical Description:: [vi], iv, 85, [1] pages, [50] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 56 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. Plans, elevations, sections, and perspective views of the gardens and buildings at Kew, in Surry : the seat of Her Royal Highness the Princess Dowager of Wales / by William Chambers ; member of the Imperial Academy of Arts at Florence ; and of the Royal Academy of Architecture at Paris, architect to the King and to Her Royal Highness the Princess Dowager of Wales.

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Creator:: Chambers, William, Sir, 1723–1796
Date:: MDCCLXIII [1763]
Physical Description:: [4], 8, 41 leaves of plates (some double) : illustrations, plans ; 53 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts