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Gothic furniture : in the style of the 15th century

Archive Print Item: Bedford Collection A586

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Type of record: Book

Title: Gothic furniture : in the style of the 15th century

Other titles: Designs for furniture

Level: Item

Classmark: Bedford Collection A586

Additional creator(s): Pugin, Augustus Welby Northmore (1812-1852) (Illustrator); Pugin, Augustus Welby Northmore (1812-1852) (Other); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019) (Former owner); Ward, Robert (Former owner)

Publisher: Ackermann & Co

Publication city: London

Date(s): 1835

Language: English

Size and medium: 25 leaves of plates

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/729053

Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991019858728305181

Description

Each plate is imprinted: Pub. April 1st 1835 by Ackermann & Co. London.


Each of the 25 plates, including the title page, have hand-coloured red lettering.


Also published as a section of the author's Ornaments of the XVth and XVIth centuries.

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Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection A586: contemporary publisher's binding, embossed cloth with engraved label on front cover.

Provenance

Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection A586 From the John Evan Bedford Library, gifted in 2019. Twenty-first-century pictorial bookplate on front pastedown: John Evan Bedford. Former reference: FEo/75. Twentieth-century? pictorial bookplate on front pastedown: Robert Ward.

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