The cabinet-makers' London book of prices, and designs of cabinet work, Calculated For The Convenience Of Cabinet Makers In General: Whereby The Price Of Executing Any Piece Of Work May BE Easily Found. Illustrated with twenty-nine copper-plates, Containing Above Two Hundred Various Designs, Intended AS A Guide Towards The Prices; For Which Reason They Have NO Plates Of The More Common Work, That Being What Almost Any One May Settle Without The Assistance Of A Drawing
Details
Type of record: Book
Title: The cabinet-makers' London book of prices, and designs of cabinet work, Calculated For The Convenience Of Cabinet Makers In General: Whereby The Price Of Executing Any Piece Of Work May BE Easily Found. Illustrated with twenty-nine copper-plates, Containing Above Two Hundred Various Designs, Intended AS A Guide Towards The Prices; For Which Reason They Have NO Plates Of The More Common Work, That Being What Almost Any One May Settle Without The Assistance Of A Drawing
Classmark: Bedford Collection A156
Creator(s): London Society of Cabinet Makers
Additional creator(s): Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019) (Former owner); Watkins, Thomas (Former owner); Harline, R (Former owner)
Publisher: printed by W. Brown and A. O'Neill, for the London Society of Cabinet Makers, and sold at the White Swan, In Shoe Lane; the Marquis of Granby, In Castle Street, Oxford Market; and at the Unicorn, The Corner Of Henrietta Street, Covent Garden
Publication city: London
Date(s): 1793
Language: English
Size and medium: xvi,266,[48]p., plates
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/725720
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991019839139405181
Description
Bedford Collection copy A154 has frontispiece drawn by T. Sheraton, engraved by Hawkins, with frontispiece explained after title page, all taken from T. Sheraton's 1793 edition of The cabinet-maker and upholsterers drawing book.
Bedford Collection copy A155 has engraved title page, The London Cabinet Book of Prices, and is missing plate 29 only.
Bedford Collection copy A154 is incomplete and has only plates by Hepplewhite and H Elbon, and W Casement, dated 1792-93 [plates 21-29 from 2nd edition], and 2 plates dated 1805 engraved by Metcalf and by George Atkinson and William Somerville, from the Supplement to the London cabinet-makers book of prices, 3rd edition 1803. Plate 5 130a is missing [pages 130-131].
Bedford Collection copy A156 contains only plates from the 2nd edition, 29 in total. Plates 1-20 as in the 1788 1st edition, 6 plates by Hepplewhite [21-25, 29], 3 plates by W Casement [26-28].
Includes index
Indexed in: Goldsmiths',
Indexed in: ESTC
Features
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection A154: loose note in John Bedford's hand about this item and its plates.
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection A155 [another copy]: loose photocopies of missing plate 29.
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection A156 [another copy, plates]: loose notes in John Bedford's hand about the item.
Bindings
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection A154: rebound quarter calf, gold tooled, marbled paper over boards.
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection A155 [another copy]: 20th century brown cloth binding, gold tooled on spine.
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection A156 [another copy, plates]: re-backed, contemporary half calf, marbled paper over boards, worn.
Provenance
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection A154: From the John Evan Bedford Library, gifted in 2019. Twenty-first-century pictorial bookplate on front pastedown: John Evan Bedford. Former reference: FEP/16.
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection A155 [another copy]: From the John Evan Bedford Library, gifted in 2019. Twenty-first-century pictorial bookplate on front pastedown: John Evan Bedford. Former reference: FEP/24. Eighteenth-century MS. inscriptions on front flyleaf: [?] Watkins? [and] Thomas Watkin's Book. MS. inscription title page: Sal[???] Wilson? MS. inscription on verso of title page: Watkins [and] J? Watkins. Nineteenth-century? MS. inscriptions on verso of final plate and sketch of a lamp: D. Brown Bill?? [and] R. Harline.
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection A156 [another copy, plates]: From the John Evan Bedford Library, gifted in 2019. Twenty-first-century pictorial bookplate on rear pastedown: John Evan Bedford. Former reference: FEP/28.
Access and usage
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