Thomas Chippendale’s Gentleman and Cabinet-Maker’s Director – The Metropolitan Museum of Art https://www.metmuseum.org/essays/thomas-chippendales-gentleman-and-cabinet-makers-director
The elaborate folio-sized publication was the first anthology-type book dedicated to British furniture design, and could grace the shelves of the gentleman’s library alongside publications from the Continent.
They were designed in a serial manner, with the intention of offering four or six
