Design for a gate. 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
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Type of record: Book
Title: Design for a gate. 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 A140
Additional creator(s): Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019) (Former owner); Taylor, Isaac (1730-1807) (Printer/publisher); Taylor, Josiah (1761-1834) (Printer/publisher)
Publisher: Printed for I. & J. Taylor, at the Architectural Library, No. 56. High Holborn
Publication city: London
Date(s): [c.1790]
Language: English
Size and medium: 21 numbered engraved plates
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/723261
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991019831084105181
Description
Engraved throughout.
National Library of Scotland dates its physical copy as c.1773, from which Gale microfilm is taken and likewise date on ESTC. It has variant title: Designs for gates. Date suggested by 2006 reprint, see Bedford collection A141.
Indexed in: ESTC
Features
Bindings
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection A140: modern half calf, marbled paper over boards, gold tooled on spine.
Provenance
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection A140: From the John Evan Bedford Library, gifted in 2019. Twenty-first-century pictorial bookplate on front pastedown: John Evan Bedford. Former reference: MO/7.
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Access
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