Designs for gates. Ornamental iron work, or designs in the present taste, for fan lights, stair case railing, window guard irons, lamp irons, palisades, & gates. With a scheme for adjusting designs with facility and accuracy to any slope. Engraved on twenty one plates
Details
Type of record: Book
Title: Designs for gates. Ornamental iron work, or designs in the present taste, for fan lights, stair case railing, window guard irons, lamp irons, palisades, & gates. With a scheme for adjusting designs with facility and accuracy to any slope. Engraved on twenty one plates
Classmark: Bedford Collection A141
Additional creator(s): Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019) (Former owner); Taylor, Isaac (1730-1807) (Printer/publisher); Taylor, Josiah (1761-1834) (Printer/publisher)
Publisher: published by M & J Orskey & Witney Antiques
Publication city: sl
Date(s): 2006
Language: English
Size and medium: 21 numbered illustrations
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/723260
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991019831083905181
Description
An exact reprint of Designs for gates, printed for I & J Taylor at the Architectural Library, No 56, High Holborn, c.1773 [c.1790].
National Library of Scotland dates its original physical copy as c.1773, from which Gale microfilm is taken and date on ESTC, with variant title: Designs for gates. This reprint dates original as c.1790.
Bedford Collection copy A141 is copy 30 of a limited edition of 100 copies.
Indexed in: ESTC
Features
Bindings
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection A141: modern paper binding [private press].
Provenance
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection A141: From the John Evan Bedford Library, gifted in 2019. Twenty-first-century pictorial bookplate on front pastedown: John Evan Bedford.
Access and usage
Access
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