The cabinet-Makers London book of prices, and designs of cabinet-work in perspective, on twenty copper plates; containing above one hundred various designs, by the London Society of Cabinet-Makers: fully illustrating the methods of calculation
Details
Type of record: Book
Title: The cabinet-Makers London book of prices, and designs of cabinet-work in perspective, on twenty copper plates; containing above one hundred various designs, by the London Society of Cabinet-Makers: fully illustrating the methods of calculation
Classmark: Bedford Collection A152
Creator(s): London Society of Cabinet Makers
Additional creator(s): Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019) (Former owner); Shearer, Thomas (fl.1788) (Designer)
Publisher: Sold at the White Swan, Shoe Lane, and the Black Boy, St. Martin's Lane
Publication city: [London]
Date(s): 1788
Language: English
Size and medium: xiii,[3],143,[5], 21 plates
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/725717
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991019831968905181
Description
Most of the designs are by Thomas Shearer. 3 are unsigned.
The plates consist of a numbered series 1 to 20, preceded by an additional titlepage engraved and reading: 'The London cabinet book of prices'.
Bedford Collection copy A152 is complete and comprises 1 page advertisement, 4 pages dedication, 7 pages of index, 1 page errata, then text [i.e. I-143], 2 unnumbered pages of prices, and plates 21, including title page.
Bedford Collection copy A153 [another copy] is only the plate volume with engraved title page and 20 plates.
Indexed in: ESTC
Features
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection A153 [another copy]: loose excerpt from sale catalogue for this item.
Bindings
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection A152: rebound [modern] quarter calf, marbled paper over boards, gold tooled on spine.
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection A153 [another copy]:contemporary half calf, marbled paper over boards, worn.
Provenance
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection A152: From the John Evan Bedford Library, gifted in 2019. Twenty-first-century pictorial bookplate on front pastedown: John Evan Bedford. Former reference: FEP/15. MS. annotations throughout by a contemporary cabinet-maker listing additional items of furniture and prices. MS. annotations and sketches of furniture in pencil on the plates, probably in the same hand. MS. annotation in John Bedford's hand collating this item on front pastedown.
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection A153 [another copy]: From the John Evan Bedford Library, gifted in 2019. Twenty-first-century pictorial bookplate on front pastedown: John Evan Bedford. Former reference: FEO/15.
Access and usage
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