A collection of designs for household furniture and interior decoration : in the most approved and elegant taste; viz sideboards ; bookcases ; beds and cornices; chairs; stools; fauteuils; commodes; window-curtains; pier-tables; candelabri ; tables for libraries, writing, work, dressing etc. Sofas; ottomans ; console-tables; chaise-longues; glasses; mirrors; lamps; jardiniers ; wardrobes; pedestals; chiffoniers, &c, &c.: with various designs for rooms, shewing the decorations, adjustment of the furniture, &c. Elegantly engraved from original drawings (Vol 1)
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Type of record: Book
Title: A collection of designs for household furniture and interior decoration : in the most approved and elegant taste; viz sideboards ; bookcases ; beds and cornices; chairs; stools; fauteuils; commodes; window-curtains; pier-tables; candelabri ; tables for libraries, writing, work, dressing etc. Sofas; ottomans ; console-tables; chaise-longues; glasses; mirrors; lamps; jardiniers ; wardrobes; pedestals; chiffoniers, &c, &c.: with various designs for rooms, shewing the decorations, adjustment of the furniture, &c. Elegantly engraved from original drawings (Vol 1)
Classmark: Bedford Collection A584
Creator(s): Smith, George (1786-1826)
Additional creator(s): Gosnell, Samuel (Printer); Taylor, J (1761-1834) (Publisher); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019) (Former owner)
Publisher: Published by J. Taylor, at the Architectural Library, no. 59, High Holborn
Publication city: London
Date(s): 1805
Language: English
Size and medium: [6] pages, 50 leaves of plates; 4 pages
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/729055
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991019858728805181
Description
Date of publication from George Smith's advertisement on title page, No 15 Prince's Street, Cavendish Square, 1805.
[Title page] This work will consist of about 150 plates, engraved in aqua-tint, making a handsome and convenient volume in large quarto... It will be published in three parts, containing not less than 50 plates each, price Il. IIs. 6d. plain, and elegantly coloured to imitate the original drawings, 2l. 12s. 6d.
Plates in parts I and II are hand-coloured. Bedford Collection copy A584 parts I and II only (2 vols), large quarto.
Plain aqua-tint [not coloured] incomplete copy at Bedford Collection A085, quarto.
Plates by J Whatmore 1804, J Rose 1805, Hall & Taplin 1804.
Bound at end of part II is: A catalogue of modern books on architecture, theoretical, practical, and ornamental... constantly on sale at Taylor's Architectural library, No. 59, High Holborn (4 pages), London.
Features
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection A584: loose note (vol 1) in John Bedford's hand collating the plates in each volume.
Bindings
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection A584 (2 vols): modern quarter cloth, blue paper over boards, gold tooled label on front covers.
Provenance
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection A584: From the John Evan Bedford Library, gifted in 2019. Twenty-first-century pictorial bookplate on front pastedown: John Evan Bedford. Former reference: FEo/23 (2 vols).
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