IN THE MANNER OF MORGAN AND SANDERS

A metamorphic library armchair of this design by Morgan and Sanders is at Trinity College, Oxford and is illustrated in R. Edwards and P. Macquoid, The Dictionary of English Furniture, rev. ed., London, 1954, vol. II, p. 291, fig. 15. First published in Ackerman's Repository in July 1811 and captioned 'This ingenious piece of furniture is manufactured at Messrs. Morgan and Sanders's, Catherine-St. Strand' (P. Agius, Ackerman's Regency Furniture & Interiors, Marlborough, 1984, fig. 29), this chair was 'considered the best and handsomest article ever yet invented, where two complete pieces of furniture are combined in one - an elegant and truly comfortable armchair and a set of library steps'.