The pier dwarf-bookcase, or 'moving library' as it is referred to in the Gillow cost books of 1799, was 'calculated to contain all the books that may be required in a sitting room without reference to the library'. With its engaged reeded tapering columns and toupie feet, it is inspired by the design for 'Rosewood commode with blue silk curtains' supplied by Gillows of Lancaster in 1801, at a cost of #15.8.0, to the 2nd Lord Clonbrook at Clonbrook, Co. Galway (sold Christie's, house sale, 1-3 November 1976, lot 67 and illustrated in F. Collard, Regency Furniture, Woodbridge 1985, p.83). Moreover, the inlaid lozenge pattern terminated by drops is shared with a related side cabinet, sold in these Rooms, 25 June 1987, lot 57. Another satinwood example with silk curtains supplied to William Tuffnell in 1797 by Charles Elliot (d. 1832) of Bond Street, the 'Royal Upholsterer and Cabinet-Maker', and a subscriber to T. Sheraton's Drawing Book, 1791 (see: E. T. Joy, 'Charles Elliot', Connoisseur, June 1959, p. 38, fig. 10)