[Rarebooks] OFFER; LONDON CABINETMAKERS PRICE GUIDE

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SOCIETY OF CABINET-MAKERS, LONDON:   THE CABINET-MAKERS' LONDON BOOK OF 
PRICES, AND DESIGNS FOR CABINET WORK, calculated for the convenience of 
cabinet-makers in general: whereby the price of executing any work may be 
easily found. Illustrated with twenty-nine copper-plates, containing above 
two hundred various designs, intended as a guide toward the prices ... 
Society of Cabinet-makers, 2d. ed., with additions. ~London.1793. xvi, 266 
p., [24] . front., 29 pl. 28 cm. London, Printed by W. Brown and A. O'Neil 
for the London Society of Cabinet Makers. Second edition (1793) issued in 
1000 copies. With corrected and clarified text and 9 plates in addition to 
the first edition - three by William Casement, a little-known 
cabinet-maker, and six by Hepplewhite (not George [dead by 1787], but 
someone with the firm of Alice Hepplewhite & Co). With 26 pages of 
tables.  ESTC T120479, Goldsmiths' 15605, OCLC notes 6 Locs. In the USA, 
[BKL, VH$, SMI, DLM, VCW, VG8] and 1 in the UK [AVA] COPAC finds also at 
Manchester, BL, Nat. Lib.Scotland. This copy includes, as a bookplate, 
a  portrait of George Washington. It is an unusual one because it was 
engraved by Samuel Dodd, of Newark, NJ [1797-1862]. Also, loosely laid into 
the book is the pictorial, engraved, certificate of membership in "The New 
York Benevolent Society of Journeymen Cabinetmakers" for George Lansdown, 
signed by the President, D. Turner and the treasurer, Andrew Anderson, 
dated August 24th, 1841. It testifies to the books long tenure in the New 
York area. Orig. calf boards, rebacked in modern calf, Mro. title piece, 
gilt.  $1375.00

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