The practical cabinet-maker, upholsterer, and complete decorator / by Peter & Michael Angelo Nicholson; with numerous illustrative engravings
Details
Type of record: Book
Title: The practical cabinet-maker, upholsterer, and complete decorator / by Peter & Michael Angelo Nicholson; with numerous illustrative engravings
Classmark: Bedford Collection A086
Creator(s): Nicholson, Peter 1765-1844
Additional creator(s): Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019) (Former owner); Nicholson, MA (1842) (Add. author); Michell, GV (Former owner)
Publisher: H. Fisher, Son, & Co. 38, Newgate Street
Publication city: London
Date(s): 1826-7
Language: English
Size and medium: x,152, 12 pages, [103] leaves of plates
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/722378
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991019788191605181
Description
Engraved tp by MA Nicholson and Dick. Other steel engraved plates drawn by M.A. Nicholson and engraved by W. Kelsall, R. Tingle, J. Tingle, W. Symns, R. Roffe, J. Tyrer, A. Dick, J. Allen, Cosmo Armstrong, Lowry, J. Archer, H. Summons, J. Henshall, T. Dale, B. Winkles, and S. Williams. 35 plates hand-coloured.
Bedford copy A086 has list of plates [2 pages], recommendations by cabinet-makers, upholsterers, and decorators dated London, June 1826 [1 page, with transcriptions], introduction by Peter Nicholson dated May 1st, 1826 [v-x], text 11-152, and glossary [12 pages].
Plates in Bedford copy A086 are dated between May 1826 and September 1827.
Bedford Collection A107 [item 7 in a bound volume of 7 items] is an incomplete copy: Plate 54 Fire Screens only.
Indexed in: Introduction by Christopher Gilbert to facsimile reprint of the first edition of The practical cabinet-maker (Wakefield: EP Publishing, 1973).
Features
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection A086: 4 pages of loose A4 notes on this item, its plates, and the V&A first edition for Christopher Gilbert's reprint in 1973 and 2 small pages of loose notes totalling the number of plates, all in John Bedford's hand; loose photocopy of the introduction by Christopher Gilbert to his 1973 reprint.
Bindings
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection A086: contemporary calf, blind and gold tooled, marbled endpapers
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection A107: contemporary half calf, marbled paper over boards, gold tooled on spine.
Provenance
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection A086: From the John Evan Bedford Library, gifted in 2019. Twenty-first-century pictorial bookplate on front pastedown: John Evan Bedford. Former reference: FEo/27. MS. annotation by bookseller on front flyleaf.
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection A107: From the John Evan Bedford Library, gifted in 2019. Twenty-first-century pictorial bookplate on front pastedown: John Evan Bedford. Former reference: Ao/14. MS. inscription in pencil on front pastedown [of volume]: G V Michell Chapel Terrace.
Access and usage
Access
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