A GEORGE IV SIMULATED ROSEWOOD METAMORPHIC LIBRARY CHAIR IN THE MANNER OF MORGAN & SAUNDERS, CIRCA 1825The chair folding open to form a flight of library steps89cm high, 55cm wide, 62cm deep overall (when a chair) The design of this chair is closely related to that of Morgan and Sanders, first published in Ackermann's Repository of Arts, July 1811 (P. Agius, Ackermann's Regency Furniture & Interiors, Marlborough, 1984, p. 60, pl. 29). A chair of similar design and attributed to Morgan and Sanders is in the collection of Trinity College, Oxford (R. Edwards and P. Macquoid, The Dictionary of English Furniture, London, rev. ed., 1954, vol. II, p. 291, fig. 15). For a similar metamorphic library armchair see Susan E. Stuart, Gillows of Lancaster & London 1730-1840, Antique Collectors Club, Vol. II pages 106-107.