Gothic ornaments, drawn from examples, executed in the improved papier mâché
Details
Type of record: Book
Title: Gothic ornaments, drawn from examples, executed in the improved papier mâché
Classmark: Bedford Collection A135
Creator(s): Bielefeld, Charles Frederick
Additional creator(s): Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019) (Former owner); Sainsbury, Montague Ely (1905-1998?) (Former owner); Jones, ? (Former owner)
Publisher: Published for the author, by John Williams, Architectural Library, 10 Charles Street, Soho Square; and Ackermann and Co., 96, Strand
Publication city: London
Date(s): 1835
Language: English
Size and medium: 4 unnumbered pages, [9] etch. plates [including frontispiece]
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/723204
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991019823483005181
Description
The preface states this is the second in a series, consisting 'entirely of decorations recently modelled and executed... in the Gothic style ... selected from among the vast number of patterns which are now in his [Bielefeld's] possession.' A complete trade catalogue of the products of the Bielefeld Works, Ornaments in every style of design ... manufactured in the improved papier mâché ..., 1840 (enlarged ed. 1850), includes the plates of this and the following set (No. 272). Each figure has a catalogue number, running from 219 to 238.
Signature: 4:̲ [2 leaves, unsigned].
Frontispiece: interior of the temporary House of Lords as restored after the fire Oct 1834. and plates drawn and etched by T. Kearnan, 17, Euston Place, New Road. Other plates drawn by T. Kearnan.
First item in a bound volume of 3 items by Bielefeld.
Bound with: 2. Ornaments, drawn from examples, executed in the improved papier mâché. / Charles Bielefeld. London: John Williams, 183-? 3. Ornaments in every style of design, practically applicable to the decoration of the interior of domestic and public buildings. / Charles Bielefeld. London: Weale, Williams, and Ackermann, 1836.
Additional description
Bound with 2 other publications. Volume contents: 2. Ornaments, drawn from examples, executed in the improved papier mâché. / Charles Bielefeld. London: John Williams, 183-? 3. Ornaments in every style of design, practically applicable to the decoration of the interior of domestic and public buildings. / Charles Bielefeld. London: Weale, Williams, and Ackermann, 1836
Features
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection A135: Several pages of loose notes in John Bedford's hand possibly identifying the owner, Jones, Carver [in Bath]; photocopies of relevant trade cards for carvers in Bath from Bath directory 1826; and excerpts of sale catalogues of a mirror frame by Jones, lot 448, and a mirror by Bielefeld, lot 217.
Bindings
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection A135: contemporary green cloth, gold tooled on front cover: Jones Carver.
Provenance
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection A135: From the John Evan Bedford Library, gifted in 2019. Twenty-first-century pictorial bookplate on front pastedown: John Evan Bedford. Twentieth-century armorial bookplate on front pastedown: M Sainsbury [i.e. Montague Ely Sainsbury (1905-1998?), antiques dealer, 35 Gay Street, Bath]. Former reference: TC/o/6. MS. annotations on front pastedown in John Bedford's hand about S. Jones and Jones & Son, furniture makers, Bath and M Sainsbury, twentieth-century antique dealer in Bath. Gold tooled on front cover: Jones carver.
Access and usage
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