Modell- und Zeichnungsbuch für Ebenisten, Tischer, Tapezirer und Stuhlmacher : und sonst für jeden Liebhaber des guten Geschmacks bey Möblirung und Einrichtung der Putz- und Prachtzimmer / verfasst von T. Sheraton, Cabinetstischern zu London (vol. 1)
Details
Type of record: Book
Title: Modell- und Zeichnungsbuch für Ebenisten, Tischer, Tapezirer und Stuhlmacher : und sonst für jeden Liebhaber des guten Geschmacks bey Möblirung und Einrichtung der Putz- und Prachtzimmer / verfasst von T. Sheraton, Cabinetstischern zu London (vol. 1)
Classmark: Bedford Collection A078
Creator(s): Sheraton, Thomas (1751-1806)
Additional creator(s): Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019) (Former owner); Wenzel, Gottfried Traugott (Translator)
Publisher: Bey Gerhard Fleischer dem Jüngeren
Publication city: Leipzig
Date(s): [1794?]
Language: German
Size and medium: 2 v. (284 p., [27], 66 leaves of plates) : ill.; 4to; 27 cm
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/722066
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991019778891605181
Description
3 parts in two volumes.
Translator's foreword dated 17 July 1794 Dresden.
Frontispiece drawn by Schuricht, Dresden and engraved by Gottschich.
Bedford copy A079 incomplete, part 3 only, wanting some plates, includes different plates 3 and 43 with second volume and third volume printed in Swedish.
Features
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection A078 (vol 1, parts 1 & 2): loose MS. note in John Bedford's hand about this item and its plates; excerpt from French sale catalogue, no. 224, on rear pastedown of vol 1; A078 (vol 2, part 3) loose photocopy of title page translated with notes on the verso in John Bedford's hand about his purchase of this and other items;
Bindings
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection A078 (vol 1 & 2): contemporary blue paper over boards, MS. on spine, printed label with German title on front cover of vol 2.
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection A079 (another copy, part 3 only): contemporary blue paper over boards, MS. on spine.
Provenance
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection A078 (2 vols): From the John Evan Bedford Library, gifted in 2019. Twenty-first-century pictorial bookplate on front pastedown of both volumes: John Evan Bedford. Former reference: FEo/34 (2 vols). MS. inscription on front pastedown of vol 1: 1-3 in 2 Bainden Do - [numbers] 4947 4660.
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection A079 (another copy, incomplete, part 3 only): From the John Evan Bedford Library, gifted in 2019. Twenty-first-century pictorial bookplate on front pastedown: John Evan Bedford. Former reference: FEo/17. Bookseller's label on front pastedown: Tilhor, Nils Johan Nordenfeldt.
Access and usage
Access
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