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
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
Classmark: Bedford Collection A159
Creator(s): London Society of Cabinet Makers
Additional creator(s): Shearer, Thomas (Other); Hepplewhite, George (1786) (Other); Casement, W (Other); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019) (Former owner)
Publisher: Printed by C. Barber 15, Fleet-Street; for the London Society of Cabinet-Makers, and sold at the Bull and Axe, St. John Street, Great-Portland Street; and at the Portland Arms, Long-Lane, West-Smithfield
Publication city: London
Date(s): 1803
Language: English
Size and medium: 4, 7, [1], 268, [48] pages, 29, [1] leaves of plates, 8, 38, [10], 2 leaves of plates
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/726760
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991019844339605181
Collection group(s): John Evan Bedford Library of Furniture History
Description
Engraved frontispiece has title: The London cabinet book of prices.
Plates include l7 by Shearer, dated l788, 6 by Hepplewhite, dated l792 or l793, 3 by W. Casement, dated 1792 or l793, and 3 unsigned, dated l788.
Includes index.
Includes Supplement to the Cabinet-makers' London book of prices, and designs of cabinet work, calculated for the convenience of cabinet-makers in general: illustrated with two copper-plates by George Atkinson and William Somerville, Cabinet-makers, London: C. Barber, 1805.
Bedford Collection A159 copy is incomplete, unbound, and damaged, wanting frontispiece, title page, introduction, index pages1-7, contents of the tables, and pages 1-4 all badly torn, plate 25 and plate 2 of supplement missing, plate 26 is earlier plates 1788.
Features
Bindings
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection A158: 20th century half-calf, gold tooled, marbled paper over boards.
Provenance
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection A158: From the John Evan Bedford Library, gifted in 2019. Twenty-first-century pictorial bookplate on front pastedown: John Evan Bedford. Former reference: FEP/3. MS. sums in pencil on verso of frontispiece.
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection A159: From the John Evan Bedford Library, gifted in 2019.
Access and usage
Access
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