Genteel houshold furniture in the present taste
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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
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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