A collection of designs for household furniture and interior decoration in the most approved and elegant taste / parts I and II
Details
Type of record: Book
Title: A collection of designs for household furniture and interior decoration in the most approved and elegant taste / parts I and II
Classmark: Bedford Collection A085
Creator(s): Smith, George (1786-1826)
Additional creator(s): Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019) (Former owner)
Publisher: published by J. Taylor, No 59 High Holborn
Publication city: London
Date(s): [1805]
Language: English
Size and medium: 100 plates [plain aquatint]
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/722355
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991019785191405181
Description
Parts I and II of the plain aquatint original issued in parts as advertised by George Smith in 1805.
100 plates dated Dec 1 1804 [part I] and July 1, 1805 [part II].
Bedford copy A085 incomplete, 95 plates, wanting plates 11, 24, 39, 65, 143 from part II, as well as any title page, or list of plates.
Bedford copy A584 in 2 vols, large quarto, has 100 coloured plates.
Features
Bindings
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection A085: contemporary calf, re-backed, gold tooled on spine.
Provenance
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection A085: From the John Evan Bedford Library, gifted in 2019. Twenty-first-century pictorial bookplate on front pastedown: John Evan Bedford. Former reference: FEo/54. MS. annotation on front flyleaf in John Bedford's hand about this issue, the plates, and watermark date of 1816 on the [original?] endpapers.
Access and usage
Access
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