A booke of sundry draughtes : Principaly serving for glasiers: and not impertinent for plasterers, and gardeners: besides sundry other professions
Details
Type of record: Book
Title: A booke of sundry draughtes : Principaly serving for glasiers: and not impertinent for plasterers, and gardeners: besides sundry other professions
Classmark: Architecture C-0 GID
Creator(s): Gedde, Walter
Additional creator(s): Shaw, Henry (1800-1873) (Other); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019) (Former owner); Sandys, George Owen (1884-1973) (Former owner)
Publisher: William Pickering
Publication city: London
Date(s): 1848
Language: English
Size and medium: 117 preliminary leaves
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/183680
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991008113669705181
Description
From the edition of 1615, with additions. Edited by Henry Shaw.
"The present work is almost wholly copied from a small volume entitled. A book of sundry draughts [by Walter Gidde]... London, 1615."
Includes a few designs by Thomas Willement (1786-1871), stained glass artist.
Indexed in: The Journal of Design
Features
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection A069: excerpt form sale catalogue pasted into front flyleaf, no. 762, with biographical information about Lord Aldenham (1896) and the Sotheby's sale of his library.
Bindings
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection A069: contemporary half calf, marbled paper over boards, gold tooled on spine and cover.
Provenance
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection A069: From the John Evan Bedford Library, gifted in 2019. Twenty-first-century pictorial bookplate on front flyleaf: John Evan Bedford. Former reference: ORo/48. Twentieth-century armorial bookplate on front pastedown: George Owen Sandys of Graythwaite Hall, Lancashire [i.e. Major George Owen Sandys (1884-1973), who inherited Graythwaite Hall near Hawkshead in 1915]. MS. note on front flyleaf in John Bedford's hand about this item. MS. inscription in pencil on front flyleaf: 14 Rimell[Rinnell?] B[ought?]. 9 June 1909.
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