This model of desk is based on a design by Thomas Sheraton in his Drawing Book, London, 1802, pl.58. It seems to have been used by Gillow's of Lancaster from 1840 to circa 1860. Holland and Sons supplied a similar desk in 1868 for #27 10s 0d (see: R. W. Symonds and B. B. Whineray, Victorian Furniture, London, 1962, p.196, fig.221).