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[FURNITURE AND DECORATION]. ACKERMANN, RUDOLPH, publisher. A selection of hand-colored aquatints and etchings from the Repository of Arts, 1800-1811, half mottled sheep, some offsetting to plates, a few captions shaved, 39 hand-colored plates of furniture and interior decoration--CARVER, THOMAS JOHNSON. One hundred & Fifty New Designs...of Ceilings, Chimney Pieces...Picture Frames, Stands for China &c., Clock & Watch Cases, 1761, 4 parts in one, calf-backed boards, upper cover detached, 56 etched plates including four etched titles, by B. Clowes after Carver--CHIPPENDALE, THOMAS. One Hundred and Thirty three Designs of Interior Decorations in the Old French & Antique Styles, for Carvers, Cabinet Makers, [etc.], 1834, 50 etchings including etched title, by Clowes after Chippendale--SHEARER, THOMAS and ALICE HEPPLEWHITE. [28 engraved plates of cabinets, desks, secretaries and chests of drawers, numbered 2-29], 1788-1792, some browning, one plate shaved--The IId. Edition of Genteel Houshold [sic] Furniture in the Present Taste...by a Society of Upholsterers, Cabinet-Makers, &c., [ca. 1765], modern brown morocco, g.e., engraved title, 120 etched and engraved plates--CRUNDEN, JOHN. The Joiner and Cabinet Maker's Darling, or Pocket Director; containing sixty useful designs...proper for friezes, imposts...book-cases, teas tables, tea stands, trays, stoves, and fenders... A new edition, 1786, 26 engraved plates--[Two pattern books, one of designs for gate ornaments, the other for furniture fittings (i.e., keyholes, drawer handles and other ornaments)], both n.d., respectively 12 and 82 engraved plates; all London; together 8 vols., 8vo-4to, the last two oblong 8vo, half maroon morocco unless otherwise described, joints and extremities rubbed. (8)