The Art journal
Details
Type of record: Book
Title: The Art journal
Other titles: Art-Union
Classmark: BC Gen2 quarto ART
Additional creator(s): Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019) (Former owner); Perry, Thomas Aloysius (1820-1907) (Former owner); Worrall, A (Former owner)
Publisher: Virtue and Co. [etc.]
Publication city: London [etc.]
Language: English
Size and medium: 74 v
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/684570
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991017745119705181
Description
1849-1897: v.12 (1850); Vernon Gallery Series (1849; 1851-1854); Royal Gallery Series (1855-1858); New Series, v.5 (1859); Royal Gallery and Turner Gallery Series (1860-1861); New Series, v.1-4 (1862-1865); Selected picture series (1866-1873); New series v.13-19 (1874-1880); New series (1881-1897)
From 1851-1854 called new ser. v. 3-6; 1855-1861 called new ser. v. 1-7; 1862-1880 called new ser. v. 1-19; 1891- called new. ser.
Vol. for 1867 includes Illustrated catalogue of the Paris Universal Exhibition.
Bedford Collection copy E001 comprises volumes 8, 9, 10 (1846, 1847, 1848).
Description based on: 1848; title from cover.
Features
Bindings
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection E001 (3 vols): contemporary quarter calf, marbled paper over boards, gold tooled on spine: Art Union.
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection H048: contemporary quarter calf, marbled paper over boards, gold tooled on spine,
Provenance
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection E001 (3 vols): From the John Evan Bedford Library, gifted in 2019. Twenty-first-century pictorial bookplate on front pastedown: John Evan Bedford. Nineteenth-century armorial bookplate on front pastedown of each volume: Thomas Aloysius Perry [i.e. Thomas Aloysius Perry (1820-1907), philanthropist, magistrate, of Bitham House estate, Avon Dassett, Warwickshire, see Franks Bequest 23368]. Later nineteenth/twentieth-century MS. inscription on front flyleaf of volume 9: A Worrall, Bitham [i.e. also of Bitham Hall, Avon Dassett].
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection H048: From the John Evan Bedford Library, gifted in 2019. Twenty-first-century pictorial bookplate on front pastedown: John Evan Bedford.
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