Designs of Furniture by William Smee and Son
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Type of record: Book
Title: Designs of Furniture by William Smee and Son
Classmark: Bedford Collection A106
Additional creator(s): Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019) (Former owner); Betts, John (1827-1855) (Printer); Jowes, Alfred (Former owner); William Smee and Son (Cabinet-maker); Gloucestershire County Library (Former owner)
Publisher: J Betts, 7 Compton St, Brunswick Square
Publication city: London
Date(s): [183?-c.1840]
Language: English
Size and medium: [53]
Manifest: https://iiif.library.leeds.ac.uk/presentation/cc/hx1pgcfd
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/722772
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991019798186905181
Collection group(s): John Evan Bedford Library of Furniture History
Description
With an index.
Two of the plates are numbered 6½ and 24½.
Features
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection A106: loose note in John Bedford's hand about J Betts, printer who is listed in 1834 Post Office London directory at Compton St address.
Bindings
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection A106: re-backed half calf, nineteenth-century marbled paper over boards, gold tooled on spine.
Provenance
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection A106: From the John Evan Bedford Library, gifted in 2019. Twenty-first-century pictorial bookplate on front pastedown: John Evan Bedford. Former reference: TC/FE/103. Twentieth-century purple inkstamp on front pastedown and verso of index: Gloucestershire County Library Class 749 Copy a [former shelfmark H 24 B16]. MS. annotation in pencil on pastedown in John Bedford's hand: William Smee and Son c.1840 Index & 49 plates (complete) v rare early trade catalogue (only recorded copy). MS. inscription on front flyleaf: Alfred Jowes 1874 Complete 49 plates.
Access and usage
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