CHIPPENDALE, Thomas (1718-1779)

THE GENTLEMAN AND CABINET MAKER'S DIRECTOR. LONDON: FOR THE AUTHOR, 1754

細節

CHIPPENDALE, Thomas (1718-1779)
THE GENTLEMAN AND CABINET MAKER'S DIRECTOR. London: for the Author, 1754
Folio (17in.x 11in., 45cm x 29cm). Title page printed in red and black, engraved dedication, 161 plates, two plates numbered XXV, (some slight marginal fraying [mostly text leaves], title page creased, some minor marginal stains and slight soiling). 19th Century half calf, marbled boards (rebacked preserving old backstrip, some light wear to extremities
First Edition

來源

Coningsby Disraeli, Hughenden Manor House, Buckinghamshire (identified by the engraved armorial bookplate).

出版

C.Claxton Stevens and S.Whittington, Eighteen Century English Furniture: The Norman Adams Collection, Woodbridge, Suffolk, 1983, pp.48-49.

拍品專文

Coningsby Disraeli was the son of Benjamin Disraeil (d.1881), novelist, Chancellor of the Exchequer and Prime Minister in 1868 and from 1874 to 1880, and his wife who was created Viscountess Beaconsfield in her own right in 1868. Benjamin purchased Hughenden Manor in 1848. The house became a National Trust property in 1947.