The carpenter's companion for Chinese railing and gates. Containing thirty-three entire new and beautiful designs, very proper to be executed at the Entrance or Round. Chinese temples, summer houses, rotundo, alcove and umbrelloed seats, parks, grottos, hermitages, ice-houses, islands, cascades, ha! ha's!, gardens, courts, yards, &c. Being a work of universal use to carpenters, joyners, &c. And intended to furnish the nobility and gentry with a variety of choice
Details
Type of record: Book
Title: The carpenter's companion for Chinese railing and gates. Containing thirty-three entire new and beautiful designs, very proper to be executed at the Entrance or Round. Chinese temples, summer houses, rotundo, alcove and umbrelloed seats, parks, grottos, hermitages, ice-houses, islands, cascades, ha! ha's!, gardens, courts, yards, &c. Being a work of universal use to carpenters, joyners, &c. And intended to furnish the nobility and gentry with a variety of choice
Other titles: Designs
Classmark: Bedford Collection A058
Creator(s): Morris, J H
Additional creator(s): Crunden, John (1745-1835) (Other); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019) (Former owner)
Publisher: printed for Henry Webley, in Holborn, near Chancery-Lane
Publication city: London
Date(s): 1765
Language: English
Size and medium: [2],8p.,16 plates
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/721880
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991019739142805181
Description
Bedford Collection copy is wanting the eight pages of letterpress containing advertisements for Henry Webley.
First item in a bound volume of 3 items.
Bound with: 2. The carpenter's compleat guide to the whole system of Gothic railing. / Robert Manwaring. London: A Webley, 1765. 3. The smith's right hand, or a complete guide to the various branches of all sorts of ironwork. Parts II and III. / W and J Weldon. London: Henry Webley, 1765.
Indexed in: ESTC
Additional description
Bound with 2 other publications in a volume with spine title: Designs. Volume contents: 2. Manwaring, R, The carpenter's compleat guide to the whole system of Gothic railing. 1765. 3. Weldon, W & J, The smith's right hand, or a complete guide to the various branches of all sorts of ironwork. Part II and III. 1765
Features
Bindings
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection A058: contemporary calf, gold tooled edges and spine.
Provenance
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection A058: From the John Evan Bedford Library, gifted in 2019. Twenty-first-century pictorial bookplate on front pastedown: John Evan Bedford. Former shelfmark/reference ARo/11.
Access and usage
Access
This material is not subject to restrictions under Data Protection or other relevant legislation that might limit access. However, other protections, such as donor conditions or conservation considerations, may still apply where advised.