COPELAND, HENRY, an i8th century English cabinet maker and furniture designer. The dates of his birth and death are unknown but he was still living in 1768. He appears to have been the first manufacturing cabinet-maker who published designs for furniture. A New Book of Ornaments appeared in 1746, but a few of the plates are all that are known to exist. Between 1752 and 1769 several collections of designs were produced by Cope land in conjunction with Matthias Lock; in one of them Copeland is described as of Cheapside. Some of the original drawings are in the library at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. Cope land was probably the originator of a peculiar type of chair back, popular for a few years in the middle of the 18th century, consisting of a series of interlaced circles.