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Eileen Gray : designer 1879-1976
Johnson, J Stewart; Strong, Roy C; Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019); Victoria & Albert Museum; Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.)
[1979]
Published to accompany an exhibition held at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London, and the Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY.
London passed and passing : a pictorial record of destroyed & threatened buildings
Fletcher, Hanslip (1874-1955)
1908
Title in red and black. Title vignette.
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 and sixty 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, of St. Martin's-lane, cabinet-maker (oversize)
Chippendale, Thomas (1718-1779); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)
[1754]
Titlepage in red and black. With a half-title and a list of subscribers. The third leaf is an engraved dedication.
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 and sixty 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, of St. Martin's-lane, cabinet-maker (oversize)
Chippendale, Thomas (1718-1779); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)
[1754]
Titlepage in red and black. With a half-title and a list of subscribers. The third leaf is an engraved dedication.