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therefore, that it will be confidered as an enhancement to the
real value and ufefulnefs of the Cabinet-maker and Upholfterer’s
Drawing-Book to compofe and feledt fome examples of fuch
ornaments as fhall ferve, both for the purpofe of the learner,
and alfo to aflift the ideas of thofe who have occalion to adorn
their work in this way.
As I have alluded to fome books of defigns, it may be
proper here juft to fay fomething of them. I have feen one
which feems to have been publifhed before Chippendale’s. I
infer this from the antique appearance of the furniture, for
there is no date, to it; but the title informs us that it was com-
pofed by a fociety of Cabinet-makers in London. It gives no
inftrudtions for drawing in any form, but we may venture to
fay, that thofe who drew the defigns wanted a good ihare of
teaching themfelves.
Chippendale’s book feems to be next in order to this, but
the former is without comparifon to it, either as to ilze or real
merit. Chippendale’s book has, it is true, given us the pro-
portions of the Five Orders, and lines for two or three cafes,
which is all it pretends to relative to rules for drawing: and,
as for the defigns themfelves, they are now wholly antiquated
and laid afide, though pofTeffed of great merit, according to
the times in which they were executed. But it may here be re-
marked
therefore, that it will be confidered as an enhancement to the
real value and ufefulnefs of the Cabinet-maker and Upholfterer’s
Drawing-Book to compofe and feledt fome examples of fuch
ornaments as fhall ferve, both for the purpofe of the learner,
and alfo to aflift the ideas of thofe who have occalion to adorn
their work in this way.
As I have alluded to fome books of defigns, it may be
proper here juft to fay fomething of them. I have feen one
which feems to have been publifhed before Chippendale’s. I
infer this from the antique appearance of the furniture, for
there is no date, to it; but the title informs us that it was com-
pofed by a fociety of Cabinet-makers in London. It gives no
inftrudtions for drawing in any form, but we may venture to
fay, that thofe who drew the defigns wanted a good ihare of
teaching themfelves.
Chippendale’s book feems to be next in order to this, but
the former is without comparifon to it, either as to ilze or real
merit. Chippendale’s book has, it is true, given us the pro-
portions of the Five Orders, and lines for two or three cafes,
which is all it pretends to relative to rules for drawing: and,
as for the defigns themfelves, they are now wholly antiquated
and laid afide, though pofTeffed of great merit, according to
the times in which they were executed. But it may here be re-
marked