Hints for picturesque improvements in ornamented cottages, and their scenery : including some observations on the labourer and his cottage : in three essays
Details
Type of record: Book
Title: Hints for picturesque improvements in ornamented cottages, and their scenery : including some observations on the labourer and his cottage : in three essays
Classmark: Bedford Collection A107
Creator(s): Bartell, Edmund
Additional creator(s): Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019) (Former owner); Michell, GV (Former owner)
Publisher: Printed for J. Taylor, Architectural Library, High Holborn
Publication city: London
Date(s): 1804
Language: English
Size and medium: xvi, 140 pages
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/722842
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991017662529705181
Collection group(s): John Evan Bedford Library of Furniture History
Description
"Illustrated by sketches" [title page].
First item in a bound volume of seven items.
Bound with: 2. An account of the paper roofs used at Tew Lodge, Oxon. /JC Loudon. London: J Harding, 1811. 3. Designs in architecture. / John Soane. London: J Taylor and S Gosnell, c.1800. 4. Grotesque architecture. / William Wrighte. London: W. Stratford for J Taylor, 1815. 5. Ideas for rustic furniture. / William Wrighte. London: I & J Taylor, 1800? 6. Drawing Room Chairs plate III; Drawing Room Window Curtains, plate II from [incomplete copy of] The cabinetmaker & upholsterer's guide. / George Smith. London: Jones & Co., 1826. 7. Fire screens plate 54 [incomplete copy of]: The practical cabinet maker, upholsterer and complete decorator. / Peter and Michael Angelo Nicholson. London: H Fisher & Son, 1826.
Additional description
Bound with 6 other publications in a volume with spine title Bartell's Picturesque Improvements &c. Volume Contents: 2. An account of the paper roofs used at Tew Lodge, Oxon. /JC Loudon. London: J Harding, 1811. 3. Designs in architecture. / John Soane. London: J Taylor and S Gosnell, c.1800. 4. Grotesque architecture. / William Wrighte. London: W. Stratford for J Taylor, 1815. 5. Ideas for rustic furniture. / William Wrighte. London: I & J Taylor, 1800? 6. Drawing Room Chairs plate III; Drawing Room Window Curtains, plate II from [incomplete copy of] The cabinetmaker & upholsterer's guide. / George Smith. London: Jones & Co., 1826. 7. Fire screens plate 54 [incomplete copy of]: The practical cabinet maker, upholsterer and complete decorator. / Peter and Michael Angelo Nicholson. London: H Fisher & Son, 1826
Features
Bindings
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 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. MS. sketches possibly by G V Michell on final leaves [28 ages] of furniture and arches, in pencil and ink, some hand coloured, and with scale/measurements.
Access and usage
Access
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