The earliest example of rocaille in England was the commission given to the great French designer Meissonnier by the Duke of Kingston in 1735 for a suite of table furniture in silver. But this was a fairly rare instance and rococo design was generally confined to engraved decoration on sobre forms almost entirely unaffected by the style. The new tendencies were disseminated predominantly by pattern-books such as Matthias Lock's, or Jones's "The Gentleman's or Builder's Companion" of 1739, which made rococo or quasi-rococo details available to every craftsman who could afford the volume. The fact that these were only details, detached from their surroundings, accounts for the frequently gauche quality of much English rococo furniture. since the craftsman could not be expected to appreciate the organic nature of the style from mere fragments.