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
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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
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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