Another firm that carried on an extensive business about the same period as Thomas Chippendale was Ince and Mayhew, in Broad Street, Golden Square, who also published a book of designs, entitled "The Cabinet maker's real friend and companion." It is singular that while the imprint on some old copper-plates in my possession .should be "Ince and Mayhew," with the address given as above, and while Sheraton in criticising their book of designs should write of the firm as it is here named, yet in the old London Directories of 1791-1795, and also in the list of master cabinet makers given by Sheraton at the end of his "Cabinet Dictionary," published in 1803, the style of the firm should be Mayhew and Ince, and the address Marshall Street, Carnaby Market.

A BEDROOM TABLE, BY INCE AND MAYHEW.

TABLE AND LAMP STANDS ATTRIBUTED TO INCE AND MAYHEW.

The designs published by them are similar to those of Chippendale, but have more of the fret-cut ornament than we find in the drawings of the latter. Indeed, although this fret-cut work has been so commonly identified with Chippendale there is remarkably little of it in his book.

A BEDROOM TABLE, BY INCE AND MAYHEW.

The three illustrations in the text of designs by Ince and Mayhew, will show that, but for the fact of their appearance in the book of designs published by them, it would be somewhat difficult to "place" them. The Bath stove, although perhaps scarcely within the strict limits of furniture, has been selected because it shows the "baroque" taste of this period. The bedroom table, on the other hand, has more of the fret-cut ornament which has just been alluded to, while the bedroom table is quite of the Chippendale character in the scroll leg and also in the ornamental framing of the panel.