Moving rooms
Details
Type of record: Book
Title: Moving rooms
Other titles: Trade in architectural salvages
Classmark: Bedford Collection D393
Creator(s): Harris, John (1931-)
Additional creator(s): Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019) (Former owner)
Publisher: Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art by Yale University Press
Publication city: New Haven [Connecticut]; London
Date(s): [2007]
Language: English
Size and medium: xv, 320 pages
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/721832
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991002062519705181
Description
Includes bibliographical references (pages 308-310) and index.
Salvaging the interior : 1500-1820 -- Salvage and a more amateur antiquarianism -- Continental imports and the Wardour Street trade -- England and the French connection -- Interiors and a new professionalism : 1850-1950 -- The growth of a transatlantic trade in rooms and salvages -- The period room in European museums -- North American museums and the English room -- Into American houses go English rooms -- William Randolph Hearst, the great accumulator -- Check-list of British rooms and salvages exported to the USA.
Provenance
Leeds University Library copy at D393: From the John Evan Bedford Library, gifted in 2019. Twenty-first-century pictorial bookplate on front pastedown: John Evan Bedford. Former reference: RC/11.
Access and usage
Access
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