The fashionable Regency library table of this 'antique' form, with 'French' inlaid tablets and 'Grecian'-scrolled end-supports united by a stretcher, can be found in Rudolph Ackermann's Repository of the Arts, 1810. (See P. Agius, Ackermann's Regency Furniture..., 1984, p.47). Rudoph Ackermann commented on a related writing and games table with end extensions, illustrated in his Repository for February 1814, 'It is very light, goes upon castors, and is particularly pleasant to sit before ...' (P. Agius, op.cit., p.47). The table evolved from the one with lion-paw supports illustated by Percier and Fontaine in Receuil de décorations intérieures, 1801, and adapted by Thomas Hope in Household Furniture and Interior Decorations, 1807.