The decorative painters' and glaziers' guide : containing the most approved methods of imitating oak, mahogany, maple, rose, cedar, coral, and every other kind of fancy wood; verd antique, dove, sienna, porphyry, white veined, and other marbles; in oil or distemper colour : designs for decorating apartments, in accordance with the various styles of architecture; with directions for stenciling, and process for destroying damp in walls; also a complete body of information on the art of staining and painting on glass; plans for the erection of apparatus for annealing it; and the method of joining figures together by leading, with examples from ancient windows
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Type of record: Book
Title: The decorative painters' and glaziers' guide : containing the most approved methods of imitating oak, mahogany, maple, rose, cedar, coral, and every other kind of fancy wood; verd antique, dove, sienna, porphyry, white veined, and other marbles; in oil or distemper colour : designs for decorating apartments, in accordance with the various styles of architecture; with directions for stenciling, and process for destroying damp in walls; also a complete body of information on the art of staining and painting on glass; plans for the erection of apparatus for annealing it; and the method of joining figures together by leading, with examples from ancient windows
Classmark: Bedford Collection A068
Publisher: Published by Isaac Taylor Hinton, 17, Warwick Square
Publication city: London
Date(s): 1827
Language: English
Size and medium: vi, [1], 8-332 pages [85 plates]; iv, [333]-364 [18 plates]
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/721924
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991019769547705181
Description
Supplement published by Sherwood, Gilbert, and Piper, Paternoster Row, 1832 has continuous pagination [333], and is printed by R. Clay, Bread-Street-Hill, London.
Supplement has 16 coloured plates and 2 bw plates [1 advertisement].
Contains index.
Gatherings H and 3O and pairs of gatherings I/K-3M/3N have sheet numbers 4, 42, and 5-41 respectively in the direction line of the first leaf of each gathering.
Some plates transposed.
A few of the plates erroneously numbered
Features
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection A068: loose excerpt from sale catalogue [for this item]; loose note in John Bedford's hand collating the plates.
Bindings
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection A068: contemporary calf, blind tooled, re-backed.
Provenance
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection A068: From the John Evan Bedford Library, gifted in 2019. Twenty-first-century pictorial bookplate on front pastedown: John Evan Bedford. Former reference: ORJ/5. Nineteenth-century bookbinder's label on front pastedown: W Creak, Binder, Stationer, &c, Fore-Hill, Ely. Nineteenth-century inkstamp on flyleaf: E. Woodroffe, Plumber, Glazier, Painter, Paper Hanger &c. Fore-Hill Ely. MS. inscription on front flyleaf: Wim[William] Haver[?] Ely August 19th 1841.
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