Metamorphic library chairs, 1810. One with moveable reading stand and candlestick in the armrests, and the other with slide-out reading table, inkwell, quill-pen stand and candlesticks in a groove in the back. Manufactured by Thomas Morgan and Joseph Sanders, Catherine Street, Strand. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from The Upholsterer's and Cabinet-Maker's Repository consisting of seventy-six designs of modern and fashionable furniture, Rudolph Ackermann, London, 1830.

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