This form of Grecian library chair with concealed set of steps was introduced by the Strand cabinet-makers Morgan and Sanders, and popularised in 1811 by Rudolph Ackermann's fashionable Repository of Arts (P. Agius, Ackermann's Regency Furniture and Interiors, Marlborough, 1984, p. 60, pl. 29).
Related Grecian library chairs, but lacking steps, were supplied in 1815 for Paxton House, Scotland, by the Edinburgh cabinet-maker William Trotter ( F. Bamford, 'Edinburgh Wrights and Furniture Makers', Furniture History, 1983, pl. 51).