Various kinds of floor decorations represented both in plano and perspective being useful designs for ornamenting the floors of halls, rooms, summer houses, &c. whither in pavements of stone, or marble, or wth painted floor cloths, in twenty four copper plates
Details
Type of record: Book
Title: Various kinds of floor decorations represented both in plano and perspective being useful designs for ornamenting the floors of halls, rooms, summer houses, &c. whither in pavements of stone, or marble, or wth painted floor cloths, in twenty four copper plates
Classmark: Bedford Collection A144
Creator(s): Carwitham, J (1723-1741)
Additional creator(s): Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019) (Former owner); Hunt, Rachel McMasters Miller (1882-1963) (Former owner)
Publisher: printed for John Bowles at the Black Horse in Cornhill
Publication city: London
Date(s): [1739?]
Language: English
Size and medium: [3]pages, 24 numbered plates
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/723772
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991019819428105181
Collection group(s): John Evan Bedford Library of Furniture History
Description
The title page is engraved, no date of publication. Plates are dated 1739: I. Carwitham Inv. et sc. 1739.
Horizontal chain lines.
ESTC has 1739 as publication date.
First edition entitled: 'Floor-decorations of various kinds. . . A work intirely new', published in 1739 [date from plates]. A second issue has same title with different imprint. This copy with variant title is perhaps a second edition and could have been published later. See NUC [LofC] has c.1745 date [or 1740?]; and loose excerpt from Simon Finch sale catalogue, 60, 2004 about the first and other issues and editions.
Indexed in: ESTC
Features
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection A144: loose excerpt from sale catalogue, no. 50 for this item; loose excerpt from sale catalogue, no 60, Simon Finch, 2004, about the first and other issue and edition.
Bindings
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection A144: half maroon morocco, marbled paper over boards.
Provenance
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection A144: From the John Evan Bedford Library, gifted in 2019. Twenty-first-century pictorial bookplate on front pastedown: John Evan Bedford. Former reference: ORo/5. Twentieth-century pictorial bookplate on front pastedown with inkstamp RBL withdrawn: Ex Libris Rachel McMasters Miller Hunt [i.e. Rachel McMasters Miller Hunt (1882-1963), American plantswoman, bookbinder and book collector].
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