Household furniture in genteel taste for the year 1760. by a society of upholsterers, cabinet-makers, &c. Containing upwards of 180 designs on 60 copper plates.... with scales
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Type of record: Book
Title: Household furniture in genteel taste for the year 1760. by a society of upholsterers, cabinet-makers, &c. Containing upwards of 180 designs on 60 copper plates.... with scales
Classmark: Bedford Collection A088
Additional creator(s): Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019) (Former owner); Dunnes, John (Former owner)
Related people: Manwaring, Robert
Publisher: printed for Robt. Sayer. Map & printseller, at the Golden Buck, in Fleet Street
Publication city: London
Date(s): [1760?]
Language: English
Size and medium: [61] leaves of plates
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/722376
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991019764649205181
Description
With an engraved titlepage and [60] leaves of plates, incorporating over 180 designs for furniture.
Four leaves of plates are signed J Couse.
Below imprint: Price 6s. Sewed, bound 7s. 3d.
Indexed in: Helena Hayward, Thomas Johnson and English Rococo, 1964,
Indexed in: ESTC
Features
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection A088: loose note in John Bedford's hand referencing Helena Hayward's attribution of certain plates to Thomas Johnson.
Bindings
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection A088: contemporary calf, gold tooled on spine and covers.
Provenance
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection A088: From the John Evan Bedford Library, gifted in 2019. Twenty-first-century pictorial bookplate on front pastedown: John Evan Bedford. Former shelfmark/reference: FEO/5. MS. inscription on title page: John Dunnes[?] partially obliterating another name. MS. initials in pencil [pentrial] on rear flyleaf: MIT.
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