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Lot 6074
Thomas Chippendale: 'The Gentleman and Cabinet Maker’s Director: being a large collection of the most elegant and useful designs of household furniture in the Gothic, Chinese and modern taste...and other ornaments', London, J. Haberkorn for the author and others, 1754, 1st edition, lacking leaves before pp. vii (i.e. half title, title page printed, and engraved dedication), but else complete, with [4]pp list of subscribers (pp. vii-x), 27pp letterpress (being a list of the plates with corresponding descriptions), plus 161 engraved plates as called for (two plates are numbered xxv), some plates with moderate foxing, slightly heavier and with some waterstaining to leaves at end, plate xxiv "Chinese Chairs" with area of surface wear (not affecting illustration itself), else leaves/plates complete and generally VGC commensurate with age, the plates dated 1753, and engraved by engraved by Tobias Müller (fl. 1754-90), Matthew Darly (fl. 1754-1778), Butler Clowes (d. 1782), Isaac I. Taylor (1730-1807), Edward Rooker (1711-1774), Johann Sebastian Müller (1715-1785), William Foster? (d. 1812), James Hulett (d. 1771) and Hemerick, Folio (45.5 x 28 cm), rebacked contemporary reverse calf very worn, part of original leather title label to spine, replenished end papers. Chippendale's breakthrough furniture design book. The Director was the most extensive pattern book to be created by a craftsperson and the first to have a wider audience outside tradesmen. The immense popularity of the 1754 first edition and subsequent reissues increased commissions for Chippendale's firm and cemented his position as one of the most premier 18th-century cabinetmakers. It was The Gentleman and Cabinet Maker’s Director, first published in 1754, that made his name and reputation. A talented draughtsman, Chippendale completed the drawings himself (many of them now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art) that were engraved for printing by Matthias Darly.While a handful of furniture designs had been printed before, The Director was the first publication on such a large scale. The 160 plates were either bound at £1.14 shillings or loose at £1.10 shillingsThe first edition of The Director attracted 308 subscribers, 49 of them members of the gentry, but the majority were fellow craftsmen (including the Affleck family in Philadelphia) who used it to inform their own work.The book was reprinted in two further editions with the third in 1762 including updates to the styles of furniture as neoclassicism became the fashion of the day. All of Chippendale’s known commissions (with the exception of one) date from after the appearance of The Director: clearly the catalogue had its intended effect on stimulating his career.
Lot 413
Collection of boxed model vehicles including Maisto 1:18 scale 1959 Cadillac, Corgi CC82272 24ct Gold Plated 50th Anniversary Mini, Corgi Bedford Pantechnicon, Dinky Silver Jubilee Bus, Corgi 97469 and 96996, 9 'Days Gone' promotional vans and a vintage Schuco clockwork tinplate car 'Old Timer Doktor- Wagen 1909' (18)
Lot 2173
A Dewalt drill and accessories, a Rubi TS-4 tile cutter, an ELU Mortice, an AEG BS PE 100A pendulum jigsaw, two Tuff boxes containing a miscellaneous collection of good quality hand tools, fixtures, etc, together with a large quantity of IKEA drinking glasses, a triple beam balance scale to a capacity of 2610g (deceased estate all power tools have had very little use, many are still in the original cases)
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