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IX. shows chairs with rectangular hacks and cane seats, a revival of a forgotten style. Plate XV. gives an idea for a “saddleoheck,” or easy chair ; also for a gouty stool, the ends of which can be raised or lowered. This design exhibits Heppelwhite’s special power of adaptation to things great and small.
Plates XVIII. and XX. afford designs for window stools, evidently of French derivation ; these were made in satinwood, with painted decorations, while the seats were covered with morocco in light shades, the effect being among the best which Heppelwhite produced.
Plates XXI. to XXVIII. deal with couches, which were now separating into the settee and the sofa. A mechanical contrivance derived from France was the Duchesse, composed of two burjans placed together with a stool between to match. The sofa, following also the French style, became more classical. Heppelwhite’s distinctive design was the settee with back composed of four shield-shaped chair backs, united with arms affixed at either end.
In plates XXIX. to XXXIV., chiefly of sideboards and sideboard tables, there is a considerable reflection of the Adam style, not only in decoration, but in their adjuncts of knife-cases, Plates XXXVIII. and XXXIX. Some have deep cellarettes with a drawer above each, and another drawer iil the centre. These have fluted or painted legs, often׳ with the spadeshaped foot.
Adam appears again in the urn stands for the breakfast table, XXXV. and XXXVI., and in the allied tea chests and tea caddies, then becoming fashionable.
Another specialty of Heppelwhite’s consists in the brass-hooped cellarettes, or “gardes dw vin,” intended to fill the space beneath such sideboards. These were made of mahogany, lined with lead (XXXIX).
Mechanical contrivances again assert themselves in the secretary desks and bookcases (Plates XL. to XLVlil.). The upper drawer falls down by means of a spring and quadrant. After the French Revolution these forms were substituted for those previously imported in such quantities.
The library tables (XLIX.) had an inlay of Various coloured woods, as also had the card and Pembroke tables (LX. to LXII.). All these were exceedingly beautiful, the inferior parts being painted to match. These were doubtless adaptations from the French styles, as also were the library cases with fine mahogany doors of waved wood with metal gilt sash bars.
The chests of drawers (LII. to LIV.) show an augmentation in size ; and the double chest, surmounted occasionally by urns, comes in. Single sets were adorned with an arched pediment above, or a return to a small version of the table of degrees. In the latter case the interrupted pediment provided spaces for busts to be arranged about the top of china cases.
After the tea trays and pier tables in the Adam style, comes literary cases and tambour writing cases, also several designs for dressing tables, all the foregoing being fitted with mechanical contrivances, while wardrobes follow (LXXXVI.).
Beds occupy Plates XCV. to CIII. These may be designated the least pretentious of the era ; the posts are simply carved with leaves and wheat ears.
Plate CVIII. gives curtains for beds and windows, being the cornices alluded to in the preceding chapter as being ornamented with urns and masks.
Mirrors! come a little later ; among these one is fitted up to form a candelabrum, while two others are surmounted by scrolls, yet another by an eagle, and further varieties by urns.
The remainder of the book embraces mirror frames, candlestands, girandoles, lamps, terms and brackets. Among the last-named is a specimen “for a patent lamp in the new subscription room at Newmarket.”
There are also fanciful sashed-glass doors for use in manufacturing bookcases.
Only occasionally do A. Heppelwhite and Co. burst out in self appreciation ; one instance occurs in a piece identical with one of Shearer’s.
This self-praise occurs in the description of the “Ruddfs Table, or Reflecting Dressing Table.” Says the author of the explanations : "This is the most complete dressing table made, possessing every convenience which can be Wanted, or mechanism or ingenuity supply. The middle door slides bv itself : the two end doors swing horizontally on a pin.”
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XLII.
“THE GUIDE OR REPOSITORY.”
It was in 1788 that the firm of A. Heppelwhite and Co. published the first edition of the “ Cabinet-makers’ and Upholsterers’ Guide, or Repository of Designs for every article of Household Furniture,” with an exceedingly comprehensive list of subjects, 300 in all, upon 126 plates. The second edition followed in 1792, and the third in 1797. These were published in Holbom, at No. 56, by I. and J. Taylor, whose place of business was therefore close to that of the well-known firm of Messrs. Batsford, who just a century subsequently to the appearance of Heppelwhite and Co.’s third edition issued a facsimile thereof, in response to the reawakened interest evinced in the grand English period which closed with the publication in 1804 of Sheraton’s Cabinet-maker, _ Upholsterer _ and General Artists’ Encyclopaedia, the last folio of any value ■in the lengthy series of such works.
A first glance at the book establishes it as one of the most valuable archives in the history of furniture design ; and educes the straightforwardness of the firm who refrained from. encumbering it with architectural designs, or in other ways pandering to stupid prejudice by the_ extravagances and merely exhibition designs which invalidated the pages of their predecessors. Quite nine-tenths of the 300 designs might, in fact, be reproduced with advantage.
Nevertheless, in their preface, A. Heppelwhite and Co. adopted the stilted periods of the day, as will be seen from extracts appended.
“ To unite elegance with utility and blend the useful and agreeable, has ever been considered a difficult but honourable task.”
“ English taste and workmanship have of late years been much sought for by surrounding nations ; and the mutability of all things, but more especially of fashion, has rendered the
LONDON AND BERKSHIRE.
Wm. R. NICHOLAS ft Co. Auctioneers ft Estate Agents, Blagr&Ye Street, Reading, & 60, Pall Mall, S.V
־MESSRS. WM. R. NICHOLAS and CO. beg
l’L to announce that they will Sell the following PROPERTIES by Auction (unless previously disposed of by private treaty): —
THAMES AND KENNET VALLEY&
BERKS HILLS (Bradfield), 300ft. above sea level, on gravel soil, within four miles of Theale Station (on the Newbury and Devizes line of the G.W.R.).— In the centre of one of the most delightfully wooded spots in the South of England, some very valuable Freehold! Pieces of Meadow and Wood Land, ranging in area from one to 20 acres, offering an opportunity seldom to be met with of securing some unique sates for the erection of gentlemen’s houses; also over a dozen Cottages. The above will be Sold, in Lots, at the Queen’s Hotel, Reading, on Tuesday, July 18, 1899, at Three o’clock.
Solicitors, Messrs. Longbourne, Stevens and Powell, 7, Lincoln’sHnn-fields, W.C.

THE COTTAGE, OHADLINGTON, OXFORDSHIRE. With pretty and extensive grounds of about 6^ acres. It contains three reception rooms, bath room, eight bed and dressing rooms, and good domestic offices, well-stocked kitchen garden with range of glasshouses, paddocks, farmery, eto. A detached Villa Residence, and Five Cottages, on the property, estimated to produce £55 per annum. ׳Three miles from Charlbury and Chipping Norton Stations. In the centre of the Heythrop Hunt.
The above will be sold at the Golden Cross Hotel, Oxford, on Tuesday, June 27, 1899, at Three o’clock.
Solicitors, Messrs. Bridges. Sawtell and Co., 23, Red Lion-square, London, W.C.
THE MANOR HOUSE, STANDLAKE, OXON.
A charming Elizabethan Estate of about 35 acres. The estate is situate in high position near church and post office. •3£ miles from Southleigh Gardens, f 19 miles from Oxford. The house, which is a good specimen of the Elizabethan period, contains six bed rooms and dressing rooms, bath room, four reception rooms, excellent offices The pleasure grounds include tennis lawns, old-fashioned flower and kitchen garden, orchard, meadow and arable land, in all about 35 acres.
The above will be sold in One or Two Lots, at the Golden Cross Hotel, Oxford, on Tuesday, June 27, 1899, at Three for Four o’clock.
Solicitor, A. W. Pierce, Esq., 21, John-street, Adelphi, and 2, St. Michael-street, Southampton.
BRISTOL, GLOUCESTERSHIRE AND SOMERSETSHIRE.
YOUNG & HOWES & CO.,
Auctioneers, Valuers, Estate Agents, etc.,
Albion Chambers, Small Street, BRISTOL.
Particulars and) conditions of sale of the above properties may be had on application to the Solicitors; or to Messrs. Wm. R. Nicholas and Co., at their Offices, Blagrave-street, Reading, and 60, Pall Mall. London, S.W. Telephone:	Reading 221;
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labours of our predecessors of little use undisguised and unwarrantable attack ■Chippendale.
“Nay,” they continue, “at this day can only tend to mislead those foreigners who seek a knowledge of English taste in the various articles of household furniture.”
The authors exhibit an imitation of Ince and Mayhew in wishing “to be useful to . the mechanic and serviceable to the gentleman. ’
The book is said to be “in the newest and m'ost approved taste.”
But, regardless of this statement, as associated with the above suggestion regarding foreigners, one of the most conspicuous plates, “ The plan of a room showing the proper distribution of the furniture,” displays nothing in the shape of seats beyond the medallion-backed chairs of the Louis Seize style
The single designs for chairs occupy plates 1 to 15, and include forms for every kind of reception room and bed room. Among them are the mahogany chairs with pierced strapwork backs, which became so popular. The chairs generally have fluted legs, with occasionally the lion-head supports, which had been common in France during the Louis Quinze period.
Heppelwhite introduced carved urns into the backs of his chairs, remarking that these “are new, and have been much approved.” But these designs, borrowed probably from the decorations of the brothers Adam, would assuredly fail to find a market if executed at the present day.
The Prince of Wales’ feathers, which Ince and Mayhew used so freely as mounts, Heppelwhite adapted to form the backs of some of his chairs, producing a very light and graceful effect.
Plate XIV. shows a hall chair, having the back carved as an Etruscan urn, with wreath pendiants. While the seats of these are tolerably full, those of the greater proportion of his chairs are smaller than in previous collections of designs, and the legs lighter in consonance with the then scantier proportions of the costume. Plate
DEVONSHIRE.
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EXETER, DEVON.
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JJ Stapleton, Gloucestershire, close to the cit ■Rris+ol a Family Residence, complete with modern requirements ; charmingly situate, overkrok-, „ Frome Valley, with beautiful grounds. For relt and particnlarsf apply Young and Howes and Co.
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־YOUNG and HOWES and CO. have several J- Town and Country Houses to be Let or Sold, and will forward particulars of same on application,