Collection of designs for household furniture and interior decoration, in the most approved and elegant taste; : viz., curtains; draperies; beds; cornices; chairs and sofas for parlors, libraries, drawing rooms &c.; library fauteuils; seats; ottomans; chaises longue; tables for libraries, writing, work, dressing &c.; sideboards; celerets; bookcases; screens; candelabri; chiffoniers; commodes; pier tables; wardrobes; pedestals; glasses; mirrors; lamps; jardiniers; &c.: with various designs for rooms, geometrical and in perspective, shewing the decorations, adjustment of the furniture, &c. : also some general observations and a description of each plate. Engraved on 158 plates, from original drawings
Details
Type of record: Book
Title: Collection of designs for household furniture and interior decoration, in the most approved and elegant taste; : viz., curtains; draperies; beds; cornices; chairs and sofas for parlors, libraries, drawing rooms &c.; library fauteuils; seats; ottomans; chaises longue; tables for libraries, writing, work, dressing &c.; sideboards; celerets; bookcases; screens; candelabri; chiffoniers; commodes; pier tables; wardrobes; pedestals; glasses; mirrors; lamps; jardiniers; &c.: with various designs for rooms, geometrical and in perspective, shewing the decorations, adjustment of the furniture, &c. : also some general observations and a description of each plate. Engraved on 158 plates, from original drawings
Other titles: Smith's designs
Classmark: Bedford Collection A585
Creator(s): Smith, George (1786-1826)
Additional creator(s): Taylor, J (1761-1834) (Publisher); Gosnell, Samuel (1799-1827 [active]) (Printer); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019) (Former owner); Japp, James (Former owner); Cowieson, L J [?] (Former owner[?]); Beecham, George (Former owner)
Publisher: Published by J. Taylor, at the Architectural Library, no. 59, Hight Holborn
Publication city: London
Date(s): [1808]
Language: English
Size and medium: xiv, 33, [1] pages, 158 leaves of plates
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/729054
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991019858728505181
Description
Printed by S. Gosnell, Little Queen Street. on verso of title page.
Signatures: a⁴ A3 B-E⁴ F1.
Features
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection A585: loose note in John Bedford's hand possibly identifying James Japp and his business; printout from Ancestry.co.uk website of Japp family baptisms in Montrose, Scotland; loose excerpt from sale catalogue for this item.
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection A427 [another copy]: excerpt from sale catalogue for this title pasted onto B. Weinreb Architectural Books, 93 Great Russell Street, London headed paper.
Bindings
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection A585: contemporary half calf, marbled brown paper over boards, blind tooled on covers, green fore-edge.
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection A427 [another copy]: contemporary brown paper over boards [detached],modern brown book box, Smith's Household Furniture on spine.
Provenance
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection A585: From the John Evan Bedford Library, gifted in 2019. Twenty-first-century pictorial bookplate on front pastedown: John Evan Bedford. Former reference: FEo/76. Nineteenth-century MS. inscription on title page and front flyleaf: James Japp, Cabinet Maker, Montrose [Scotland]. MS. inscription in pencil on front flyleaf: LJ Cowrieson[??].
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection A427 [another copy]: From the John Evan Bedford Library, gifted in 2019. Twenty-first-century pictorial bookplate on front pastedown: John Evan Bedford. Former reference: FEo/24. Nineteenth-century MS. inscription on front flyleaf: George Beecham.
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Access
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