To the Right Honble: Lord Blakeney Grand President of the Antigallican Associations (and the rest of the bretheren of that most honourable order.) This book is most humbly dedicated by his Lordships most obedient humble servt. and brother Thos. Johnson
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Type of record: Book
Title: To the Right Honble: Lord Blakeney Grand President of the Antigallican Associations (and the rest of the bretheren of that most honourable order.) This book is most humbly dedicated by his Lordships most obedient humble servt. and brother Thos. Johnson
Classmark: Bedford Collection A130
Creator(s): Johnson, Thos (1714?-1778)
Additional creator(s): Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019) (Former owner); Gale, T (Fomer owner); Sainsbury, M (1905-1998?) (Former owner)
Related people: Blakeney, William, 1672-1761
Publisher: Sold by T. Johnson carver at the Golden Boy, in Grafton Street St. Ann's Westminster. Published by Act of Parliament
Publication city: [London]
Date(s): April 23rd 1758
Language: English
Size and medium: [10] p., 53 leaves of plates
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/723180
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991019764149405181
Description
Title from dedication on engraved title page.
Contents in the following order: engraved t.p., unnumbered plate, 2 leaves of letterpress (Preface), unnumbered plate (Contents), 53 leaves of plates.
"April 23d." in imprint.
Plates engraved by Jas[James] Kirk, B Clowes.
Indexed in: ESTC
Features
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection A130: loose photocopied title pages from One hundred and fifty new designs by Thos Johnson carver, 4 parts (London, Robert Sayer, 1761); loose photocopied pages from Lyon & Turnbull auction, 2 September 2015, lot 28, Johnson, One hundred and fifty new designs, 1761.
Bindings
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection A130: contemporary quarter calf, marbled paper over boards.
Provenance
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection A130: From the John Evan Bedford Library, gifted in 2019. Twenty-first-century pictorial bookplate on front pastedown: John Evan Bedford. Former shelfmark/reference: FEo/14. Twentieth-century armorial pictorial bookplate on front pastedown: M. Sainsbury [i.e. Montague Ely Sainsbury (1905-1998?), antiques dealer, 35 Gay Street, Bath]. Eighteenth-century MS. inscription on verso of contents page. MS. inscription on verso of plate 49: T Gale 1809. Nineteenth-century sketches in pencil on verso of plates, for example, plate 8 a cat, plate 9 a red squirrel, plate 36 mantel, plate 49 decoration [probably by T Gale]. MS. annotation on verso of title page detailing accounts.
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