The Gentleman and Cabinet-Maker's Director

This is a French language version of the third edition of Chippendale's The Gentleman and Cabinet-Maker's Director. It was issued to reach potential customers throughout Europe, among whom French was the international language of art and culture. Germany seems to have been the most receptive market, although copies are also known in France, and Catherine the Great of Russia also owned one.The book has its original leather binding and bears the bookplate of Friedrich Otto von Munchausen (d. 1797). Friedrich's father Philipp Adolf von Munchausen (1694-1762) was the head of the German Chancery in London 1748-1762 and a noted Anglophile. He was also an uncle of the ‘lying baron' Hieronymous Karl Friedrich von Munchausen (1720-1797), who was the model for the fictional Baron Munchausen.

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