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The laws of harmonious colouring adapted to interior decorations, manufactures, and other useful purposes

Archive Print Item: Bedford Collection A092

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Type of record: Book

Title: The laws of harmonious colouring adapted to interior decorations, manufactures, and other useful purposes

Level: Item

Classmark: Bedford Collection A092

Creator(s): Hay, D R (1798-1866)

Additional creator(s): Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019) (Former owner); Miller, William (1796-1882) (Former owner)

Publisher: William and Robert Chambers; and Orr & Smith, London

Publication city: Edinburgh

Date(s): 1836

Language: English

Size and medium: vii, 72 pages [5 plates]

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/706217

Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991008897209705181

Features

Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection A092: excerpt from sale catalogue on front flyleaf, no. 136, pasted onto front flyleaf.


Bindings


Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection A092: contemporary green cloth [publisher's] binding, label on front cover.

Provenance

Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection A092: From the John Evan Bedford Library, gifted in 2019. Twenty-first-century pictorial bookplate on front pastedown: John Evan Bedford. Nineteenth-century printed book label: William Miller 4 Hope Park Edinburgh [i.e. William Miller (1796-1882), engraver and water colourist]. Former reference: JDC/4. MS. inscription on front flyleaf: To William Miller Esq with the Author's respectful compliments, Edin 26 July, 1837.

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