The cabinet-maker and upholsterer's drawing-book in four parts
Details
Type of record: Book
Title: The cabinet-maker and upholsterer's drawing-book in four parts
Classmark: Bedford Collection A077
Creator(s): Sheraton, Thomas (1751-1806)
Additional creator(s): Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019) (Former owner); Brooklyn Public Library (Former owner)
Publisher: printed by T. Bensley, Bolt Court, Fleet Street, for W. Baynes, (successor to G. Terry) 54 Paternoster-Row: sold also by J. Archer, Dublin; and all other booksellers
Publication city: London
Date(s): 1802
Language: English
Size and medium: [4],viii, pages 446, 60, 24, [8]; leaves of plates (some folded)
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/722065
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991019774789405181
Description
Published in parts
Pages 1-5 mispaginated as v-viii.
Engravers include J. Barlow; J. Cooke; Hawkins; J. Newton; G. Terry; Thornthwaite, and others
Includes Appendix to the Cabinet-maker and upholsterer's drawing-book with its own title page and pagination.
Includes An accompaniment to the cabinet-maker and upholsterer's drawing-book with its own pagination.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Part I. Of geometry. Section I. Of geometrical lines; Section II. Of geometrical problems ; Section III. Of geometrical figures ; Section IV. Of drawing geometrical figures; Section V. Of geometrical solids ; Section VI. Problems pertaining to the working part ; Section VII. Of the proportion of the five orders -- Part II. Of perspective. Section I. Principles of perspective ; Section II. Of optical laws ; Section III. Of problems in perspective ; Section IV. The representation of objects ; Section V. Application of the problems ; Section VI. The principles of shadows -- Part III -- Appendix -- A description of the additional new plates in the second edition -- An accompaniment
Features
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection A077: excerpt from sale catalogue on front pastedown, no 2533, £11 10s referring to 1793 edition with MS. note: please return From the catalogue of Char[les?] Hutt cost in currency to me [p?] $[?] 60.
Bindings
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection A077: contemporary mottled calf, gold tooled on cover and spine, marbled endpapers.
Provenance
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection A077: From the John Evan Bedford Library, gifted in 2019. Twenty-first-century pictorial bookplate on front pastedown: John Evan Bedford. Former reference: FEo/21. Stamp [hole punched] on title page: Brooklyn Public Library [and the number in blue] 2750429. MS. annotation on front flyleaf in John Bedford's hand about number of plates [122].
Access and usage
Access
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