Old English and French ornaments : comprising 244 designs, on 105 plates, of elaborate examples of hall glasses, picture frames, chimney pieces, stands for china, clock and watch cases, girandoles, brackets, grates, lanterns, ornamental furniture, ornaments for brass workers and silver workers, rich ornamental ironwork patterns, and for carvers, modellers, &c. &c. &c
Details
Type of record: Book
Title: Old English and French ornaments : comprising 244 designs, on 105 plates, of elaborate examples of hall glasses, picture frames, chimney pieces, stands for china, clock and watch cases, girandoles, brackets, grates, lanterns, ornamental furniture, ornaments for brass workers and silver workers, rich ornamental ironwork patterns, and for carvers, modellers, &c. &c. &c
Classmark: Bedford Collection A297
Additional creator(s): Chippendale, Thomas (1718-1779) (Designer); Johnson, Thos (1714?-1778) (Designer); Pether, Thomas (Designer); Lock, Matthias (1710-1765) (Designer); Jones, Inigo (1573-1652) (Designer); Weale, John (1791-1862) (Compiler); Kirk, Jas (Illustrator); Darly, Matthias (1720-1778) (Illustrator); Swan, Abraham (Illustrator); Clowes, Butler (1782) (Illustrator); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019) (Former owner)
Publisher: John Weale
Publication city: London
Date(s): 1858-1859
Language: English
Size and medium: 2 unnumbered pages, 1 unnumbered leaf, 105 leaves of plates
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/722960
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991019803627705181
Description
A compilation of parts of works, including Chippendale's ornaments and interior decorations in the old French style; A book of ornaments, suitable for beginners, by Thos. Pether, carver; A book of ornaments, drawn & engrav'd by M. Lock; Chippendale's one hundred and thirty-three designs of interior decorations in the old French & antique styles; A book of ornaments by Thos. Johnson, carver.
The designs ascribed to Chippendale are in fact by Thomas Johnson.--Cf. H. Hayward. Thomas Johnson and English rococo.
Plates by B. Clowes and Jas. Kirk; after M. Lock, M. Darly, Thomas Johnson and Ab. Swan.
Includes 5 engraved added title pages on first unnumbered leaf, leaves 1-3 and leaf 70.
Handwritten pagination on upper right corners of leaves.
Features
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection A297: Contains loose items: 4 pages of MS. notes in John Bedford's hand about this item and its plates; 1 photocopy of leaf 3; clipping from auction catalogue for this item.
Bindings
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection A297: Quarter bound in red morocco with cloth boards; gilt stamped spine.
Provenance
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection A297: From the John Evan Bedford Library, gifted in 2019. Twenty-first-century pictorial bookplate on front pastedown: John Evan Bedford. Former reference: FEO/63. MS. annotations and drawings in pencil throughout with numbers pencilled in on top right corner of most leaves.
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