The joiner and cabinet-maker's darling, or, Pocket director : containing sixty useful designs, forty of which are gothic, Chinese, mosaic, and ornamental frets, proper for friezes, imposts, architraves, tabernacle frames, book-cases, tea tables, tea stands, trays, stoves, and fenders : and twenty designs for gothic, modern and ornamental fan lights, for over doors, calculated for the universal use of carpenters, joiners, cabinet-makers, masons, plaisterers, smiths, &c. &c.
A pattern book published in London in 1786 by the architect and designer John Crunden, issued through the bookseller John Taylor for joiners, cabinet-makers, carpenters and plasterers. Its plates show sixty fret and ornamental designs for friezes, architraves, tea tables, trays and fenders, plus fanlight designs. The engraved frets are dense, repeating geometric and interlaced Gothic, Chinese and mosaic patterns, usable as ready-made borders, panel infill or lattice motifs for period-style woodwork.
