One hundred & fifty new designs / by Thos. Johnson, carver ; consisting of cielings [sic], chimney pieces, slab, glass & picture frames, stands for china &c., clock & watch cases, girondoles, brackets, grates, lanthorns, &c. &c. ; the whole well adapted for decorating all kinds of ornamental furniture, in the present taste ; engrav'd on 56 copper plates.
Alternate Title(s):
One hundred and fifty new designs
Published / Created:
London : Sold by Robert Sayer, at the Golden Buck, near Serjeants Inn, in Fleet Street, London, 1761.
Physical Description:
4 pt. in 1 : all ill. ; 29 cm.
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts NK1345 .J6 1761+ Oversize Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon C
Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Related Content:
View a digital copy of this edition, from the Digital Library for the Decorative Arts and Material Culture (University of Wisconsin)
http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/DLDecArts.Carver
Classification:
Books
Notes:
Engravings by Butler Clowes and James Kirk; after Thomas Johnson."This work is regularly divided into 4 parts"--Title page.Each part has an engraved title page within ornamental border, counted as a plate.Consists of 56 numbered plates, including four title-pages.Without preface or text.The plates were later issued (spuriously) under the name of T. Chippendale.British Architectural Library. Early printed books, 1478-1840, p. 850BAC: British Art Center copy in contemporary brown wrappers, rebacked. Plate 17 supplied from the second edition and inlaid to size.
Subject Terms:
Interior decoration -- Great Britain -- Early works to 1800. | Decoration and ornament, Rococo -- Early works to 1800. | Pattern books -- England -- Early works to 1800. | Sayer, Robert -- Publisher. | Engraving -- Specimens -- 1761.
Form/Genre:
Pattern books.
Contributors:
Clowes, Butler, -1782, engraver. | Kirk, James, active 1785–1791, engraver. | Johnson, Thos. (Thomas), 1714?-approximately 1778, ill.