Furniture.- Hepplewhite (Alice) The Cabinet-Maker and Upholsterer's Guide, third edition, 127 engraved plates, one double-page, foxing and some water-staining, a few short tears and marginal defects, one tear along plate-mark, 4pp. publisher's catalogue at end, contemporary tree calf, rebacked and with one new label, rubbed, cloth slip-case, [cf.Berlin Kat. 1233], folio, Published by I. and J. Taylor, 1794.

⁂ One of the three great furniture pattern books of the 18th century, with an additional plate and two others altered from the first edition of 1788. The designs are assumed to be the work of George Hepplewhite as the work was published by his widow, although no examples of his furniture are known to exist. He is mostly associated with light and elegant furniture, particularly shield-back chairs.