The antique and modern embellisher : consisting of ornamented architraves, frizes, imposts, frets, cymas, astragals, &c. &c. with sundry curious and useful Moresque, Gothic, Indian and French borders: collected from antique reliques, ancient authors, original drawings from the best Italian, French, and English architects
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Type of record: Book
Title: The antique and modern embellisher : consisting of ornamented architraves, frizes, imposts, frets, cymas, astragals, &c. &c. with sundry curious and useful Moresque, Gothic, Indian and French borders: collected from antique reliques, ancient authors, original drawings from the best Italian, French, and English architects
Classmark: Bedford Collection A124
Creator(s): Willson, Alexander
Additional creator(s): Roberts, J (1765-1780) (Engraver); Pettit, W (Engraver); Sayer, Robert (1725-1794) (Printer); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019) (Former owner); Colvin, Howard Montagu (1919-2007) (Former owner); Bloomsbury Book Auctions (Bookseller)
Publisher: Printed for, and sold by, Robert Sayer, Map and Printseller, at the Golden Buck, near Serjeant's Inn, Fleet-Street
Publication city: London
Date(s): 1766
Language: English
Size and medium: [2], [50 leaves of plates]
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/723104
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991019803631005181
Collection group(s): John Evan Bedford Library of Furniture History
Description
Bedford Collection A124 is incomplete: wanting plates 1, 2, 40, 41, 50.
Some plates engraved by W. Pettit.
Features
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection A124: loose photocopied pages of an auction catalogue, lot 166, a George III commode, which refers to a design on plate 24 [flowered-lozenge] of this item.
Bindings
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection A124: brown cloth book box with gold tooled label on front cover.
Provenance
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection A124: From the John Evan Bedford Library, gifted in 2019. Twenty-first-century pictorial bookplate on front pastedown: John Evan Bedford. Former reference: ORo/65. MS. annotation in John Bedford's hand about the provenance of this item: The Library of the late Sir Howard Colvin (lot 348, Bloomsbury Book Auctions 25-9-2008) [i.e. Sir Howard Montagu Colvin (1919-2007), British architectural historian].
Access and usage
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