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Modern furnishings for rooms : a series of designs for vestibules, halls, stair cases, dressing rooms, boudoirs, libraries, and drawing rooms; with their doors, windows, chimney-pieces, and other finishings, to a large scale ; and the several mouldings and cornices at full size : showing their construction and relative proportions. To which are added some designs for villas and porticos, with the rules for drawing the columns, etc at large. The whole adapted for the use and direction of every person engaged in the practical parts of building

Archive Print Item: Bedford Collection A111

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Type of record: Book

Title: Modern furnishings for rooms : a series of designs for vestibules, halls, stair cases, dressing rooms, boudoirs, libraries, and drawing rooms; with their doors, windows, chimney-pieces, and other finishings, to a large scale ; and the several mouldings and cornices at full size : showing their construction and relative proportions. To which are added some designs for villas and porticos, with the rules for drawing the columns, etc at large. The whole adapted for the use and direction of every person engaged in the practical parts of building

Level: Item

Classmark: Bedford Collection A111

Creator(s): Pocock, W F (1779-1849)

Additional creator(s): Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019) (Former owner); Gosnell, Samuel (1799-1827 [active]) (Printer); Taylor, Josiah (1761-1834) (Printer)

Publisher: printed for J. Taylor, at the Architectural Library, no. 59, High Holborn

Publication city: London

Date(s): 1811

Language: English

Size and medium: 23 p

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/722951

Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991019669349505181

Description

J Taylor, A catalogue of modern books on architecture, 4 pages, folded, after final leaf.


S. Gosnell, Printer, Little Queen Street, London, verso tp, page 23.

Features

Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection A111: loose excerpts from a sale catalogue, no. 26, and an auction catalogue, lot 1213 [for this item]; loose note in John Bedford's hand describing the plates.


Bindings


Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection A111: rebound, calf, gold tooled edge and spine.

Provenance

Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection A111: From the John Evan Bedford Library, gifted in 2019. Twenty-first-century pictorial bookplate on front pastedown: John Evan Bedford. Former reference: ORo/28.

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