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A series of twenty-nine designs of modern costume

Archive Print Item: Bedford Collection A598

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Type of record: Book

Title: A series of twenty-nine designs of modern costume

Other titles: Series of 29 designs of modern costume

Level: Item

Classmark: Bedford Collection A598

Additional creator(s): Moses, Henry (1782?-1870) (Designer); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019) (Former owner); Powell, William Edward (1788-1854) (Former owner); Durie, John Adam (1783-1843) (Former owner)

Publisher: E. and C. McLean, Regent Street, Pall Mall

Publication city: London

Date(s): 1823

Language: English

Size and medium: 30 unnumbered leaves

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/729077

Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991019842142105181

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Illustrated throughout.

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Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection A598: contemporary half red morocco, marbled paper over boards [worn], gold tooled on spine, printed label on cover, repaired.

Provenance

Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection A598: From the John Evan Bedford Library, gifted in 2019. Twenty-first-century pictorial bookplate on front pastedown: John Evan Bedford. Former reference: C3/2. Nineteenth-century armorial bookplate on front pastedown: W. E. Powell Esq Nanteos [i.e. William Edward Powell, 1788-1854, MP for Cardiganshire, Wales, see Franks Bequest 23963, page 376]. Nineteenth-century MS. inscription on front flyleaf: Captain Durie, Astley Hall [i.e. John Adam Durie, 1783-1843, Captain without purchase in 1814, of Astley Hall, Lancashire].

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