Household Furniture in Genteel Taste for the Year 1760 by a Society of Upholsterers, Cabinet Makers &c

Item author: Anon
Item date: 1760
Grant Value: 925
Item cost: 3,150
Item date acquired: 2001
Item institution: Museum of the Home [formerly Geffrye Museum]
Town/City: London

First edition, hitherto unlisted in ESTC. Contains 60 copper plate engravings incorporating 180 designs. Several have been identified as being by leading London cabinet makers such as Ince and Mayhew, Robert Manwaring and Thomas Chippendale. the range of furniture encompassed is encyclopaedic, from chinoiserie girandoles to candle sconces, rococo chandeliers to gothic bookcases