CHIPPENDALE, THOMAS. The Gentleman and Cabinet-Maker's Director: Being a Large Collection of the Most Elegant and Useful Designs of Household Furniture in the Most Fashionable Taste. 201 engraved plates after the author. Folio, contemporary calf rebacked and restored in 1957; numerous pages with marginal repairs including last 11 plates, scattered browning and dampstaining, heaviest to preliminaries and dedication leaf, small 1-inch stain at lower margin throughout contents. Provenance: Thomas Knighton, grand-nephew of Sir Isaac Newton, with his cut and mounted signature on pastedown. Third and best edition of the most influential furniture design guide of the eighteenth century. sold as is. London: for the author, 1762