In the plainest and most enriched styles; with a scale to each, and an explanation in letter press. Also, the plan of a room, shewing the proper distribution of the furniture. The whole exhibiting near three hundred different designs, engraved on one hundred and twenty-either plates: from drawings by A. Hepplewhite and Co. Cabinet Makers. London: I. and J. Taylor, MDCCXCIV (1794). Re-printed and published by B.G. Batsford, London, MDCCCXCVII (1897). Hardcover, 24 pages of text plus 123 illustrated plates. Bound in brown cloth with gilt stamping and embossing on the boards and spine. The book is oversized, measuring 10x15 inches in size. Gilt fore-edge. Bound by James Burn & Co., Limited is stamped in gilt on the inside of the back cover. The front board has a stain about 10.5 inches long on the right side, as well a few smaller discolored spots. The cloth of the back cover is worn from rubbing on the left side Crown/foot of the spine are lightly bumped with some small tears, and the spine also has a few stained spots. Binding is strong. The pages are free of marks and writing, though they are evenly toned from age and have some foxing. The gutters of the endpapers have been repaired with brown cloth. Gutter at the preface is splitting, with the cloth showing at some points. The binding is beginning to split at some parts in the book, predictably after years of handling such an oversized book. 123 plates, all illustrated with black and white furniture designs. The furniture shown includes: Saddle Cheek Chair, Secretary and Book-Case, Pembroke Tables, Tea Caddies and Chests, Ornamented Tops, Bidet Shaving Table, Design for a Bed, and much more, as well as a Plan of a Room. The Cabinet-Maker and Upholsterer s Guide was an enormously popular and influential book of furniture designs. This is a very nice copy of the 1897 edition.

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Title: The Cabinet-Maker and Upholsterer s Guide; or Repository of Designs for every article of household furniture, in the newest and most approved taste�
Publisher: London: I. and J. Taylor, MDCCXCIV (1794). Re-printed and published by B.G. Batsford, London, MDCCCXCVII (1897).
Publication Date: 1897
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good

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