The bookcase, designed in the early 19th century 'antique' manner, comprising a scroll-pedimented cabinet and flanking cabinets with 'bust-plinth' pediments. Its reed-clustered pilasters support a cornice that is carved with the poet's wreath between palm-scrolled thyrsae, and the doors' lozenged-compartments comprise scroll-ended reeds bearing Egyptian lotus-buds. Those of the side cabinets are centred by rosette-medallions binding crossed thyrsus-like reeds. While related patterns for its Grecian pediment and lozenged-compartments feature on a 'wardrobe' pattern published in George Smith's Household Furniture and Interior Decoration, 1808, pl. 134, the foliated capitals and cornice enrichment relate more closely to those of a 'bust-mounted' bookcase pattern published in P. and M. A. Nicholson's Practical Cabinet-Maker, Upholsterer and Complete Decorator, 1826