Third supplement to the London chair-makers' book of prices for workmanship : with the methods of computation adopted in the work, illustrated by reference to a variety of figures, engraved on thirteen copper plates
Details
Type of record: Book
Title: Third supplement to the London chair-makers' book of prices for workmanship : with the methods of computation adopted in the work, illustrated by reference to a variety of figures, engraved on thirteen copper plates
Other titles: London chair-makers' book of prices for workmanship
Classmark: Bedford Collection A168
Creator(s): Committee of Master Chair-Manufacturers and Journeymen (London, England)
Additional creator(s): Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019) (Former owner); C. A. Shaw, London (Bookbinder)
Publisher: Printed by Alfred Dod (late Mitchell & Co.), Rupert Street, Haymarket; for the Society of Chair-makers and Carvers, and sold by their appoitnment
Publication city: London
Date(s): 1844
Language: English
Size and medium: xii, 175 pages, 13 leaves of plates
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/726929
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991019842140305181
Collection group(s): John Evan Bedford Library of Furniture History
Description
Errata precedes text.
Includes index.
Goldsmiths'-Kress no. 33707.
Bedford Collection copy A168 is wanting plate 9.
Bedford Collection copy A169 (4th item) complete.
Bedford Collection copy A169 is fourth item in a bound volume of 4 items.
Bedford Collection copy A169 bound with: The London chair-makers' and carvers books of prices for workmanship (3rd ed). London: T. Brettell, 1829.
Features
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection A169: loose excerpt from sale catalogue for this item, no. 340.
Bindings
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection A168: half calf, blind tooled, gold tooled on spine [faded?], purple cloth over boards [remnants of marbled endpapers on title page].
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection A169: contemporary half morocco, green cloth over boards, gold tooled on spine.
Provenance
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection A168: From the John Evan Bedford Library, gifted in 2019. Twenty-first-century pictorial bookplate on front pastedown: John Evan Bedford. Former reference: FEP/14. MS. inscriptions on verso of page xii: Tho[mas] Northfield Jan[uar]y - 14-1845 H Morland S; Robt Clark Smith August 7 1855 Blake Sect; Robt Poole Nov, 7-1865, Blake Sect. Black inkstamp on rear pastedown: C. A. Shaw, Bookbinder, 189 Kings Cross Rd W6.
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection A169: From the John Evan Bedford Library, gifted in 2019. Twenty-first-century pictorial bookplate on front pastedown: John Evan Bedford. Former reference: FEP/7. MS. inscriptions on verso of page xxiii: Ja[me]s Geo[rge] Elliott Aug? 7 166 Blake Secty; Wm Bilton? July 27-1841 H Morland Ly?; Feb 3 - 1846 H Morland Ly?; Nov 4, 1857 J? Blake Sect.
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