The Cabinet Maker and Upholsterer's Guide: Or Repository of Designs for Every Article of Household Furniture (Classic Reprint)

How far we have fucceeded in the following work it becomes not us to fay, but rather to leave it, with all due deference, to the determination of the Public at large. It may be allowable to fay, we have exerted our utmoft endeavours to produce a work which (hall be ufeful to the mechanic, and ferviceable to the gentleman. With this view, after having fixed upon fuch articles as were neceflary to a complete fuit of furniture, our judgment was called forth in felecting fuch patterns as were moft likely to be of general ufe -in choofing fuch points of view as would fhew them moft diftinctly and in exhibiting fuch fafhion Sas were neceffary to anfwer the end propofed, and convey a juft idea of Englifh tafte in furniture for houfes. Englifh tafte and workmanfhip have, of late years, been much fought for by furrounding nations; and the mutibility of all things but more efpecially of fafhions, has rendered the labours of our predeceffors in this line of little ufe :nay, at this day, they can only tend to miflead thofe Foreigners, who feek a knowledge of Englifh tafte in the various articles of houfehold furniture.
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