The cabinet-maker and upholsterer's drawing-book

In three parts. Part I. Containing such geometrical lines and instructions as are highly useful to persons of both branches; including the methods of finding lines for hip and elliptic domes for state beds, of mitring mouldings of different projections together, and of finding curved lines to answer the various sections of irregular figures.- To which are added, the five orders, proportioned by aliquot parts, and exhibited in one large plate. Part II. On practical perspective, applied to the art of representing all kinds of furniture in different situations; together with a little of the theory for such as would know some of the reasons on which this useful art is founded. N.B. The examples in perspective are intended to exhibit the newest taste of various pieces of furniture, and likewise to shew the necessary lines for designing them. Part III. Is a repository of various ornaments, consisting of designs for pediments, with cornices, &c. drawn at large, their springs shewn, and the proper gaging marked off to work the several mouldings by.- To which are added, two methods of representing a drawing-room, with the proper distribution of the furniture

by Thomas Sheraton

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