Auktion: 305 / Wertvolle Bücher am 13./14.11.2006 Lot 1345

 
Thomas Chippendale - Gentleman and cabinet-maker


1345
Thomas Chippendale
Gentleman and cabinet-maker's director, 1754.
Schätzung:
€ 5.000
Ergebnis:
€ 7.735

(inkl. Käuferaufgeld)
Chippendale, Th., The Gentleman and Cabinet-Maker's Director: Being a large collection of the most elegant and useful designs of household furniture, in the most fashionable taste. Mit gest. Widmung mit gr. Wappenvignette und 161 Kupfertafeln. London (1754). Neuer Ldr. mit RSch. und Blindpräg. Folio. 1 Bl., X, 27 S.
Millard Coll. II, 15. - British Arch. Libr. I, 631. - Ornamentstich-Slg. Bln. 1227. - UCBA I, 285. - Erste Ausgabe des berühmten Werkes. "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.). - Die schönen Tafeln mit Säulenordnungen, Stühlen, Sofas, Betten, Sessel, Tische, Toilettentische, Kommoden, Wandtische, Schränke, gotische und chinesische Möbeln, Laternen, Ofenschirme u. v. m. - Etw. fleckig (überwieg. fingerfl.), 1 Kupfer verkehrt herum eingebunden, 1 Taf mit Randeinriß, 1 Taf. mit Quetschfalte, 1 Tafel vo. mit mont. Zeichnung.
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.
Schätzung:
€ 5.000
Ergebnis:
€ 7.735

(inkl. Käuferaufgeld)