Thomas Sheraton's 1802 design for a library reading chair, 'intended to make the exercise of reading easy, and for the convenience of taking down a note or quotation for any subject' (T.Sheraton, The Cabinet Dictionary, London, 1803, pl. 5), was subsequently adopted by Messrs. Morgan and Sanders of Catherine Street, Strand. A design for 'library reading chairs', published in Ackerman's Repository in September 1810, illustrates a related model 'in the great sale at the warehouse of the inventor's Messrs. Morgan and Sanders' (see S.Jones and P.Agius, Ackerman's Regency Furniture and Interiors, Marlborough, 1984, p.54, pl. 19)