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A new book of iron work, containing a great variety of designs (useful for painters, cabinet-makers, carvers, smiths, fillegre-piercers, &c.) with gates of various sorts, pilasters, fences for beausets, tables, rails, stair-cases, galleries, balconies, sign and lamps irons, door-lights, gratings, brackets, pedestals, weather-cocks, spindles, &c.The whole neatly engraved on twenty copper-plates, design'd by J. Jores

Archive Print Item: Bedford Collection A103

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Type of record: Book

Title: A new book of iron work, containing a great variety of designs (useful for painters, cabinet-makers, carvers, smiths, fillegre-piercers, &c.) with gates of various sorts, pilasters, fences for beausets, tables, rails, stair-cases, galleries, balconies, sign and lamps irons, door-lights, gratings, brackets, pedestals, weather-cocks, spindles, &c.The whole neatly engraved on twenty copper-plates, design'd by J. Jores

Level: Item

Classmark: Bedford Collection A103

Creator(s): Jores, J

Additional creator(s): Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019) (Former owner); Sayer, Robert (1725-1794) (Printer/publisher); School of Design, Somerset House, London (Former owner); Department of Practical Art Library (Former owner); Victoria and Albert Museum (Former owner)

Publisher: printed for Robert Sayer, opposite Fetter-Lane, Fleet-Street

Publication city: London

Date(s): 1759. (Price 3s.)

Language: English

Size and medium: 1 leaf, plates

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/722781

Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991019798390005181

Description

Consists largely of plates with one unnumbered leaf of letterpress.


Indexed in: ESTC

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Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection A103: private press paper cover and label, black book box by J & S Brockman, Wheatley, Oxford.

Provenance

Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection A103: From the John Evan Bedford Library, gifted in 2019. Twenty-first-century pictorial bookplate on front pastedown: John Evan Bedford. Former reference: Mo/14. Nineteenth-century red inkstamp on every plate: School of Design Somerset House [i.e. School of Design, Somerset House, established in 1837 under the Board of Trade for Improvement of Ornamental Art]. Nineteenth-century black inkstamp on title page: Department of Practical Art Library [i.e. Department of Practical Art formed in 1852 under the Board of Trade].Twentieth-century red inkstamp on title page: "Victoria and Albert Museum" sold by order of the Ministry of Education.

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