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Genteel houshold furniture in the present taste

Archive Print Item: Bedford Collection A208

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Type of record: Book

Title: Genteel houshold furniture in the present taste

Other titles: Genteel household furniture in the present taste; IId. edition of genteel houshold furniture in the present taste, with an addition of several articles never before executed, by a society of upholsterers, cabinet-makers, &c., containing upwards of 350 designs on 120 copper plates; Upwards of one hundred new and genteel designs, being all the most approved patterns of houshold furniture in the present taste; Upwards of one hundred new and elegant designs, being all the most approved patterns of houshold furniture in genteel taste; One hundred and ten capital new designs, being all the most approved patterns of houshold furniture in genteel taste; Upwards of fifty curious new designs, being all the most approved patterns of houshold furniture in genteel taste; Second edition of genteel houshold furniture in the present taste, with an addition of several articles never before executed, by a society of upholsterers, cabinet-makers, &c., containing upwards of 350 designs on 120 copper plates

Level: Item

Classmark: Bedford Collection A208

Additional creator(s): Gilbert, Christopher (Writer of introduction); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019) (Former owner)

Publisher: EP Publishing Limited

Publication city: Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England

Date(s): 1978

Language: English

Size and medium: ix pages, 5 unnumbered leaves, 120 leaves

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/722277

Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991019781986305181

Description

"This reprint is a facsimile of the IId edition, taken from the copy presented to the Chippendale Society in memory of Sir Malcolm Stoddard-Scott... by his family in conjunction with the Victoria and Albert Museum, 1977"--Title page verso.


Originally published: London : Robert Sayer, [1765?].


Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection A208: leaf 21 mis-numbered '20'; leaf 65 mis-numbered '68'; leaf 111 mis-numbered '93'.

Provenance

Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection A208: From the John Evan Bedford Library, gifted in 2019. Twenty-first-century pictorial bookplate on front pastedown: John Evan Bedford. Former reference: FER/21.

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