The furniture designs of George Hepplewhite
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Type of record: Book
Title: The furniture designs of George Hepplewhite
Other titles: Cabinet maker and upholsterers' guide (1794)
Classmark: Large Art P-4 HEP
Additional creator(s): Hepplewhite, George (1786) (Designer); Bell, J Munro (Contributor); Hayden, Arthur (1868-1946) (Contributor); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019) (Former owner)
Related people: Hepplewhite, George, -1786
Publisher: Gibbings and Company, limited
Publication city: London
Date(s): 1910
Language: English
Size and medium: xix pages, 59 preliminary leaves
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/187859
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991008660179705181
Description
Contains reproduction of title page of third edition: The cabinet-maker and upholsterer's guide; or repository of designs for every article of household furniture, in the newest and most approved taste: displaying a great variety of patterns for chairs, stools, sofas, confidante, duchesse, side boards, pedestals and vases, cellerets, knife-cases, desk and book-cases, secretary and book-cases, library cases, library tables, reading desks, chests of drawers, urn stands, tea caddies, tea trays, card tables, pier tables, Pembroke tables, tambour tables, dressing glasses, dressing tables and drawers, commodes, Rudd's table, bidets, night tables, bason stands, wardrobes, pot cupboards, brackets, hanging shelves, fire screens, beds, field beds, sweep tops for ditto, bed pillars, candle stands, lamps, pier glasses, terms for busts, cornices for library, cases, wardrobes &c. at large, ornamented tops for pier tables, Pembroke tables, commodes &c. &c. : in the plainest and most enriched styles; with
a scale to each, and an explanation in letter press : also the plan of a room, shewing the proper distribution of the furniture : the whole exhibiting near three hundred different designs, engraved on one hundred and twenty-eight plates: from drawings by A. Hepplewhite and Co. Cabinet-Maker: the third edition, improved. London, I. and J. Taylor at the Architectural Library, MDCCLIV.
Provenance
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection G094: From the John Evan Bedford Library, gifted in 2019. Twenty-first-century pictorial bookplate on front pastedown: John Evan Bedford. Former reference: FER/18. Bookseller's label on front pastedown: The Galignani Library.
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