Trade catalogue for William Baker, clock & clock case maker, 39, Birchall Street, Birmingham
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Type of record: Book
Title: Trade catalogue for William Baker, clock & clock case maker, 39, Birchall Street, Birmingham
Classmark: Bedford Collection A112
Publisher: [no publisher identified]
Publication city: [No place of publication given]
Date(s): [c.1854?]
Language: English
Size and medium: 68 leaves of plates
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/722941
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991019803631705181
Collection group(s): John Evan Bedford Library of Furniture History
Description
Some leaves have 6 clock designs printed on single sheet, others have single designs cut from other catalogues pasted in separately to a page. Designs are also on verso of front flyleaf and rear pastedown. Approximately 232 numbered designs.
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Features
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection A112: loose note in John Bedford's hand about 19th century Bakers who traded as clock makers; family tree of W H Baker and William Baker pasted onto front flyleaf, including John L Marks.
Bindings
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection A112: contemporary brown cloth, metal hasp, red calf label on front cover, gold tooled: William Baker, Clock and Clock Case Maker, 39, Birchall Street, Birmingham.
Provenance
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection A112: From the John Evan Bedford Library, gifted in 2019. Twenty-first-century pictorial bookplate on rear pastedown: John Evan Bedford. Former reference: TC/FE 497. Nineteenth-century MS. inscription on front flyleaf: William Fowkes Cabinet Maker Droitwich (Worcestershire is in John Bedford's hand) [i.e. possibly William Fowkes, cabinet-maker with a shop on High Street, Droitwich in 1905]. Twentieth-century printed book label on front flyleaf: From the Library of John L. Marks 'Chippendale', Earlswood [i.e. John Lionel Marks (b.1936), descendent of William Baker, married Margaret Louise Bedford (b.1935)]. MS. table of types of clock, design number and corresponding page on front pastedown and flyleaf.
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