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The London chair-makers' and carvers' book of prices for workmanship : as regulated and agreed to by a Committee of master chair-manufacturers and journeymen : with the methods of computation adopted in the work : illustrated by reference to a variety of figures, engraved on sixteen copper-plates

Archive Print Item: Bedford Collection A169

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Type of record: Book

Title: The London chair-makers' and carvers' book of prices for workmanship : as regulated and agreed to by a Committee of master chair-manufacturers and journeymen : with the methods of computation adopted in the work : illustrated by reference to a variety of figures, engraved on sixteen copper-plates

Other titles: Chair-makers' and carvers' book of prices; Carver's book of prices

Level: Item

Classmark: Bedford Collection A169

Additional creator(s): Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019) (Former owner)

Related people: Brettell, T

Publisher: T. Brettell, Rupert Street, Haymarket, for the Committee of chair-manufacturers and journeymen

Publication city: London

Date(s): 1829

Language: English

Size and medium: xxiii, 108, 26 pages, [13], [3] leaves of plates

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/726930

Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991019842140505181

Description

Appended is one supplement: Carver's book of prices: 26 p. with [3] leaves of plates.


First item in a bound volume of 4 items.


Bound with: 2. Supplement to the London chair-makers and carvers' book of prices for workmanship (2nd ed.). London: T. Brettell, 1829. 3. Second supplement to the London chair-makers and carvers' book of prices for workmanship (2nd ed.). London: T Brettell, 1829. 4. Third supplement to the London chair-makers' book of prices for workmanship. London: Alfred Dod, 1844.

Features

Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection A169: loose excerpt from sale catalogue for this item, no. 340.


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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 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 Burton? July 27-1841 H Morland Ly?; Feb 3 - 1846 H Morland Ly?; Nov 4, 1857 J? Blake Sect.

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