Thomas Sheraton's 1802 design for a library reading chair, 'intended to make the exercise of reading easy, and for the convenience of taking down a note or quotation for any subject' (T. Sheraton, The Cabinet Dictionary, London 1803, plate 5), was consequently adopted by Messrs. Morgan and Saunders of Catherine Street, Strand. A design for 'library reading chairs' published in Ackerman's Repository in September 1810, illustrates a related model in 'the great sale at the warehouse of the inventor's Messrs. Morgan and Sanders' (see S. Jones and P. Agius, Ackerman's Regency Furniture and Interiors, Marlborough, 1984, p.54, plate 19).
cf. 11.4.91 lot 54