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The furniture designs of Thomas Sheraton

Archive Print Item: Large Art P-4 SHE

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Type of record: Book

Title: The furniture designs of Thomas Sheraton

Other titles: Cabinetmaker and upholsterer's drawing book (1802)

Level: Item

Classmark: Large Art P-4 SHE

Creator(s): Sheraton, Thomas (1751-1806)

Additional creator(s): Bell, J Munro (Contributor); Hayden, Arthur (1868-1946) (Contributor); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019) (Former owner)

Related people: Sheraton, Thomas, 1751-1806

Publisher: Gibbings and Co., Ltd

Publication city: London

Date(s): 1910

Language: English

Size and medium: xxvi, 128 pages

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/187860

Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991008660219705181

Description

Pages 1-57, 63-128 consist of full-page illustrations.


Contains re-issue with reproductions of original title-pages: [a] The cabinet-maker and upholsterer's drawing-book. In four parts. By Thomas Sheraton. 3d ed. rev., and the whole embellished with 122...copper-plates. London, Printed by T. Bensley for W. Baynes; [etc., etc.] 1802. [b] Designs for household furniture, exhibiting a variety of elegant and useful patterns in the cabinet, chair, and upholstery branches on eighty-four plates. By the late Thomas Sheraton. London, J. Taylor, 1812.


Publisher's lettering on spine: The cabinet maker's and upholsterer's drawing book (1802).

Provenance

Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection E026: From the John Evan Bedford Library, gifted in 2019. Twenty-first-century pictorial bookplate on front pastedown: John Evan Bedford. Former reference: FER/19.

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