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The London furniture makers : from the Restoration to the Victorian Era, 1660-1840 : a record of 2500 cabinet-makers, upholsterers, carvers and gilders, with their addresses and working dates : illustrated by 165 reproductions of makers's trade-cards

Archive Print Item: Bedford Collection A245

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Type of record: Book

Title: The London furniture makers : from the Restoration to the Victorian Era, 1660-1840 : a record of 2500 cabinet-makers, upholsterers, carvers and gilders, with their addresses and working dates : illustrated by 165 reproductions of makers's trade-cards

Other titles: London furniture makers from 1660-1840

Level: Item

Classmark: Bedford Collection A245

Creator(s): Heal, Ambrose (1872-1959); Symonds, R W (1889-1958)

Additional creator(s): Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019) (Former owner); Unwin Brothers (Firm) (Printer); L. van Leer & Co. (Printer)

Publisher: B.T. Batsford, Ltd; The text of this work has been printed by Messrs. Unwin Brothers Ltd., the Gresham Press; Plates by Messrs. L. Van Leer & Co. Ltd

Publication city: London

Date(s): 1953

Language: English

Size and medium: xx, 276 pages

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/722737

Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991004184929705181

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Includes bibliographical references (pages xix-xx).

Provenance

Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection A245: From the John Evan Bedford Library, gifted in 2019. Twenty-first-century pictorial bookplate on front pastedown: John Evan Bedford. Former reference: FEG/115. MS. annotations on some pages.

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