A book in parts on geometry, perspective and furniture: square-backed chairs, sideboards with brass rails, Pembroke, card, writing and sofa tables, cylinder desks and library tables, beds, and a drawing room and a dining parlour drawn furnished, with a commentary on each room and what its furniture should be.
Thomas Sheraton (1751–1806) trained as a cabinet-maker but is not known to have kept a workshop in London; he lived by teaching drawing and by his books. The Drawing-Book’s designs are lighter and straighter than Hepplewhite’s, on round tapering legs, often reeded, with much use of satinwood and painted decoration.
Sheraton says that the dining parlour should be furnished with substantial, unornamented mahogany, and the drawing room with the most elegant pieces in the house; his later Cabinet Dictionary (1803) shows the turn to the Grecian forms of the Regency.