Thomas Chippendale published writing-table patterns, surmounted by French-fashion multi-shelved 'cartonnieres' in The Gentleman and Cabinet-Maker's Director, London, 3rd ed., 1762 (pls. LXXII, LXXV and CXVII). A 'cartonnier' also featured on a 'Study Table' pattern in Messrs. Ince and Mayhew's The Universal System of Household Furniture, 1762 (pl. XXV). In England, this cartonnier type can be traced to a tall medal-case pattern, which Batty Langley issued in The City and Country Builder's and Workman's Treasury of Designs, 1740, having plagiarised it from a French design. Such cartonniers, sometimes standing on separate chests, accompanied the bureau-plat. A particularly fine ormolu-mounted 'case' or cartonnier, standing in the centre of a Parisian bureau-plat, was drawn in the 1740s by King George II's architect John Vardy (d. 1765) while in the possession of Richard Arundale (d. 1769). It bore the stamp of the Parisian bniste Bernard II van Risenburgh (elected a matre bniste in 1730) (C. Gilbert, Furniture at Temple Newsam House and Lotherton Hall, London, 1978, vol. II, no. 561). The quality and elegant form of this triumphal arched cartonnier, with its serpentined and acanthus-wrapped volutes, also corresponds to the cabinet-work in the 1760s of William and John Linnell of Berkeley Square, such as the bookcases illustrated in Hayward and Kirkham, William and John Linnell, London, 1980, vol. II (figs. 15-18).