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marked to his credit, that although he has not given rules for
drawing in * perspective himfelf, yet he was feniible of their im-
portance and ufe in defigning, and therefore he fays in his pre-
face: 44 Without fome knowledge of the rules of perfpedtive,
the cabinet-maker cannot make the defigns of his work intelli-
gible, nor fhew, in a little compafs, the whole conduct and
effedt of the piece. Thefe therefore, referring to architecture
alfo, ought to be carefully ihidied by every one who would ex-
cel in 'this branch, iince they are the very foul and baiis of his
art.”
After Chippendale’s work there appeared, in the year
fixty-five, a book of defigns for chairs only, though it is called
44 The Cabinet-maker’s real Friend and Companion,” as well as
the Chair-maker’s. This publication profeffes to fhew the me-
thod of ftriking out all kinds of bevel work, by which, as the
author fays, the moft ignorant perfon will be immediately ac-
quainted with what many artifts have ferved feven years to
* This is ftricStly true of the third edition of Chippendale’s book ; but the firft edition
of it, printed in 1754, has given two chairs, a dreffing table, and a book-cafe in perfpedtive,
fhewing the lines for drawing them. But why thefe examples were not continued in the
Succeeding editions I know not. In the laft edition of any work, we naturally expedt to
fee it in its beft ftate, having received its laft revifal from the author, or fome other hand
equal to the talk; and therefore it can never be thought unfair for a reader to form his
judgment of a book from the laft impreifion. I hope, therefore, this v/ill Sufficiently apologize
for the above obfervation.
know,
drawing in * perspective himfelf, yet he was feniible of their im-
portance and ufe in defigning, and therefore he fays in his pre-
face: 44 Without fome knowledge of the rules of perfpedtive,
the cabinet-maker cannot make the defigns of his work intelli-
gible, nor fhew, in a little compafs, the whole conduct and
effedt of the piece. Thefe therefore, referring to architecture
alfo, ought to be carefully ihidied by every one who would ex-
cel in 'this branch, iince they are the very foul and baiis of his
art.”
After Chippendale’s work there appeared, in the year
fixty-five, a book of defigns for chairs only, though it is called
44 The Cabinet-maker’s real Friend and Companion,” as well as
the Chair-maker’s. This publication profeffes to fhew the me-
thod of ftriking out all kinds of bevel work, by which, as the
author fays, the moft ignorant perfon will be immediately ac-
quainted with what many artifts have ferved feven years to
* This is ftricStly true of the third edition of Chippendale’s book ; but the firft edition
of it, printed in 1754, has given two chairs, a dreffing table, and a book-cafe in perfpedtive,
fhewing the lines for drawing them. But why thefe examples were not continued in the
Succeeding editions I know not. In the laft edition of any work, we naturally expedt to
fee it in its beft ftate, having received its laft revifal from the author, or fome other hand
equal to the talk; and therefore it can never be thought unfair for a reader to form his
judgment of a book from the laft impreifion. I hope, therefore, this v/ill Sufficiently apologize
for the above obfervation.
know,