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A new book of hunting trophies engrav'd from the designs of the celebrated Monsieur Huët : properly adapted to the new method of ornamenting rooms & screens with prints

Archive Print Item: Bedford Collection A588

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Type of record: Book

Title: A new book of hunting trophies engrav'd from the designs of the celebrated Monsieur Huët : properly adapted to the new method of ornamenting rooms & screens with prints

Level: Item

Classmark: Bedford Collection A588

Additional creator(s): Huët, Christophe (1700-1759) (Creator); Vivares, François and others (1709-1780) (Bookseller); Angier, Paul (1725-1757) (Engraver); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019) (Former owner)

Publisher: Sold by F. Vivares at the Golden Head in Great Newport Street

Publication city: [London]

Date(s): [1810?]

Language: English

Size and medium: [7] leaves of engraved plates

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/729060

Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991019859928205181

Collection group(s): John Evan Bedford Library of Furniture History

Description

Dated from title page watermarked 1810.

First edition published by T Major in 1757.

Indexed in: Berlin Kat

Features

Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection A588: excerpt from sale catalogue for this item pasted into front flyleaf.

Bindings

Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection A588: modern blue paper wrappers, red cloth portfolio and slip case, quarter red morocco, gold tooled on spine.

Provenance

Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection A588: From the John Evan Bedford Library, gifted in 2019. Twenty-first-century pictorial bookplate on inside front cover: John Evan Bedford. Former reference: ORo/64.

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