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Designs for carving and gilding, used as interior decoration and furniture : with original patterns for dressing glasses, in a variety of styles, including that of Louis XIV, which being at present highly fashionable, is displayed in many examples

Archive Print Item: Bedford Collection A599

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Type of record: Book

Title: Designs for carving and gilding, used as interior decoration and furniture : with original patterns for dressing glasses, in a variety of styles, including that of Louis XIV, which being at present highly fashionable, is displayed in many examples

Level: Item

Classmark: Bedford Collection A599

Creator(s): King, Thomas furniture pattern designer

Additional creator(s): Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019) (Former owner)

Publisher: J. Weale, at the Architectural Library, 59, High Holborn;; A. Rutherglen ; J. Menzies ; G. Young

Publication city: London : Glasgow : Edinburgh : Dublin

Date(s): [1836?]

Language: English

Size and medium: [2] pages, [50] leaves of plates

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/729078

Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991019861053405181

Description

"The work contains: 12 designs for large glasses, 20 designs for chimney glasses, 8 designs for pier glasses, 20 designs for dressing glasses, 8 designs for pier tables, 2 designs for console tables, 3 designs for fancy tables, 18 designs for window cornices, 8 designs for brackets and stands for clocks, jars, &c., 2 designs for candelabra, &c."


Printed by George Taylor, 7, Little James Street, Gray's Inn Lane.

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Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection A599: contemporary publisher's binding, half sheep, green paper over boards with printed title, water damage, repaired.

Provenance

Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection A599: From the John Evan Bedford Library, gifted in 2019. Twenty-first-century pictorial bookplate on front pastedown: John Evan Bedford. Former reference FEo/41.

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