William Ince Cabinet Maker by Sarah Ingle, Foreword by Lennox Cato

A detailed family history of William Ince, partner of John Mayhew in the important 18th century cabinet making firm Ince & Mayhew.  Their antique furniture is on display in a number of museums and stately homes around the world.   The postscript describes the intriguing adventures of William’s son Frederick in 1830s Virginia.

William Ince (1737-1804) & John Mayhew (1736-1811) formed an important cabinet-making firm in 1759 and produced beautiful furniture which can now be found in museums and stately homes around the world. Their partnership  lasted until an agreement in 1799 to end the business.  They produced a great deal of furniture in that period, which is of an extremely high quality, sometimes with amazing marquetry and often with a delicate touch.  

There is a full description of the firm’s activities in the article in the Dictionary of English Furniture Makers 1660-1840 by Hugh Roberts and Charles Cator (Beard, G and Gilbert, C eds. 1986 pp. 589-598) now available online.  A number of more recent articles about Ince & Mayhew have appeared in the Furniture History Society Journal - see Further Reading.

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ISBN 978-1-9163387-0-8

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