The lap desk is both an antique and modern form.

As an antique the lap desk is a smaller variant of the writing slope.

Most antique lap desks are really meant to be used on a table or some other stable surface.

Some new lap desks now have a built-in cup holder.

Most modern lap desks are considered specialty items and very few furniture dealers keep them in stock.

It is usually larger than a lap desk.

Rogers shows that a captain's lap desk has many compartments.

A lap desk or even a large enough book will suffice.

For those without even a corner to devote to business, there is a lap desk.

He later described the lap desk made for him by Randolph: