Neo-Classical Furniture Designs: A Reprint of Thomas King's "Modern Style of Cabinet Work Exemplified," 1829
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THOMAS KING has written several highly acclaimed children’s books. A Coyote Solstice Tale, illustrated by Gary Clement, won the American Indian Library Association Youth Literature Award for Best Picture Book and A Coyote Columbus Story, illustrated by William Kent Monkman, was a Governor General’s Award finalist. He was a Professor of English at the University of Guelph for many years, where he taught Native Literature and Creative Writing. He won the Governor General’s Award for his adult novel, The Back of the Turtle, and he has been nominated for the Commonwealth Writers Prize.
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Neo-Classical Furniture Designs - Thomas King
NEO-CLASSICAL FURNITURE DESIGNS
A Reprint of Thomas King’s Modern Style of Cabinet Work Exemplified,
1829
THOMAS KING
With a New Introduction by
THOMAS GORDON SMITH
Chairman, School of Architecture, University of Notre Dame
DOVER PUBLICATIONS, INC.
New York
Copyright
Introduction copyright © 1995 by Thomas Gordon Smith.
All rights reserved under Pan American and International Copyright Conventions.
Published in Canada by General Publishing Company, Ltd., 30 Lesmill Road, Don Mills, Toronto, Ontario.
Published in the United Kingdom by Constable and Company, Ltd., 3 The Lanchesters, 162-164 Fulham Palace Road, London W6 9ER.
Bibliographical Note
This Dover edition, first published in 1995, is an unabridged republication of the work originally published in 1829 and expanded in 1835. A copy of the Second Edition, with Considerable Additions
(H. G. Bohn, London, 1862) owned by the University of Notre Dame was used for the 100 plates and the Descriptive List of the Plates
reproduced in this volume. In the 1862 edition, the original 72 plates of 1829 and the 28 supplementary plates of 1835 were reorganized into a logical sequence of images based on furniture type, although no changes were made to the pre-Victorian designs.
The title page and Address
reprinted here are taken from a copy of the 1829 edition owned by the University of Notre Dame. The Introduction by Thomas Gordon Smith has been specially prepared for this edition.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
King, Thomas.
Neo-classical furniture designs : a reprint of Thomas King’s Modern style of cabinet work exemplified,
1829 / Thomas King; with a new introduction by Thomas Gordon Smith.
p. cm.
ISBN 0-486-28289-9 (pbk.)
eISBN-13: 978-0-486-14839-7
1. King, Thomas—Themes, motives. 2. Furniture design—England—History— 19th century. 3. Furniture, Neoclassical—England. I. Smith, Thomas Gordon. II. King, Thomas. Modern style of cabinet work exemplified. III. Title.
NK2542.K5A4 1995
749.22—dc20 95-15908
CIP
Manufactured in the United States of America
Dover Publications, Inc., 31 East 2nd Street, Mineola, N.Y. 11501
Contents
Thomas King: British and American Furniture Design of the 1830s
Appendix I: Bibliography of References to Thomas King
Appendix II: List of Titles by Thomas King
Adderss
Descriptive List of The Plates
THOMAS KING
BRITISH AND AMERICAN FURNITURE DESIGN OF THE 1830S
THOMAS GORDON SMITH
IN RECENT YEARS, many images from furniture pattern books by Thomas King have been used to illustrate monographs on British cabinetwork of the second quarter of the nineteenth century, yet King’s biography and bibliography have not received much investigation.¹ Edward T. Joy, the scholar who most sympathetically chronicled the design of mid-nineteenth-century English furniture, noted that King remains a shadowy figure,
² In many ways, the shadow was cast by disdain for the period when King flourished, an attitude expressed in 1962 by Elizabeth Aslin, author of Nineteenth Century English Furniture:
During the years from 1830 until about 1860, between the Regency and the high Victorian periods, general taste and design in all forms of house furnishing were at a particularly low ebb . . . the complete lack of interest in furniture design was reflected not merely in the dearth of pattern-books but even in the unprecedented depths to which prices [for eighteenth-century furniture] sank . . . ."³
Aslin’s assertion about pattern books is untrue because the period was actually rife with publications in the genre. A search in British and American libraries reveals that Thomas King was a particularly heavy contributor, having produced 28 pictorial books between 1822 and 1848. King distributed his books in unbound parts: whether bound or loose, they must have received rough handling in cabinet or upholstery shops, because few survive. Ten of the titles have not been located, but they are known from advertising pamphlets bound at the back of other books. Eighteen titles still exist, and a number of them are preserved in unique copies. Although the books were rarely imprinted with a date, a hypothetical chronology of