Pattern book of furniture designs

Description

Bedford Collection copy A109 is wanting title page and 6 plates [possibly lithographs]: missing numbers 136-139, 160-163, 184-187, 236-237, 276-277, 338.

Plate numbers 278, 279, 313 and 314 almost match those in T King, The modern style of cabinet work exemplified.

Plate numbers 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, from T King, Designs for carving and gilding.

Features

Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection A109: two loose A4 pages of notes in John Bedford's hand collating the plates and suggesting sources for some designs.

Bindings

Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection A109: contemporary brown cloth embossed.

Provenance

Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection A109: From the John Evan Bedford Library, gifted in 2019. Twenty-first-century pictorial bookplate on front pastedown: John Evan Bedford. Former reference: FEo/60. Pink circular book label on front pastedown embossed with a G[?]. Nineteenth-century MS. inscription on front flyleaf: William Grisbrook [i.e. possibly William Grisbrook, looking-glass and picture frame maker in 1839, East Cross, Tenterden in Kent, see BIFMO]. MS. annotations throughout in pencil, for example, listing prices.

Access and usage

Access

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