Lot 1345 
1345
Thomas Chippendale
Gentleman and cabinet-maker's director, 1754.
Estimate:
€ 5,000 / $ 5,350 Sold:
€ 7,735 / $ 8,276 (incl. surcharge)
Millard Coll. II, 15. - British Arch. Libr. I, 631. - Ornamentstich-Slg. Bln. 1227. - UCBA I, 285. - First edition of this famous work. "Threehundred and eight subscribers were listed, the majority, about two-thirds, being craftsman in the furniture trade, mostly in London. No more than one in six of the subscribers were members of the nobility and gentry, though such notable patrons as the duke of Kingdom, the earl of Northumberland, Lord Chesterfield, and Sir Thomas Robinson, were among them. The member of artists was limited ... Chippendale employed three engravers for the first edition: Darly, who signed ninety-eight of the plates; Johann Sebastien Müller ... did twenty-six; and Müller's brother Tobias ... was responsibel for twenty-three" (Millard Coll.). - Somewhat stained (mostly fingerstained), 1 plate with marginal tear, crease to 1 plate, 1 plate vo. with mounted drawing.
First edition of this famous work. With engr. dedication and 161 copperplates. Later calf with label. - Somewhat stained (mostly fingerstained), 1 plate with marginal tear, crease to 1 plate, 1 plate vo. with mounted drawing.
1345
Thomas Chippendale
Gentleman and cabinet-maker's director, 1754.
Estimate:
€ 5,000 / $ 5,350 Sold:
€ 7,735 / $ 8,276 (incl. surcharge)