An entire new series of cabinet and upholstery designs : intended to embrace every variety of elegant and useful furniture, suited to the palace of cottage, including various stiles of Grecian, Gothic, Lewis XIV, &c (In 3 parts)
Details
Type of record: Book
Title: An entire new series of cabinet and upholstery designs : intended to embrace every variety of elegant and useful furniture, suited to the palace of cottage, including various stiles of Grecian, Gothic, Lewis XIV, &c (In 3 parts)
Other titles: Original designs for household furniture by George Smith Piccadilly
Classmark: Bedford Collection A590
Creator(s): Smith, George (1786-1826)
Additional creator(s): Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019) (Former owner); Sharp, William (1803-1875) (Lithographer); OHMA Art[?] Department[?] (Former owner)
Publisher: Sold by Ackerman and Co., 96, Strand, London, printed by Shaw & Sons, Fetter Lane
Publication city: London
Date(s): [19th century]
Language: English
Size and medium: 21 leaves of plates
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/729082
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991019859924605181
Collection group(s): John Evan Bedford Library of Furniture History
Description
In three parts [of 21 designs].
Bedford Collection copy A590 part 2 has 4 plates watermarked 1835, and part 3 has leaves watermarked 1835 or 1836.
Bedford Collection copy A590 has 17 plates, 24 plates, and 21 plates.
Features
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection A590: loose [possibly] bookseller's receipt[?]: Lgs Graf & Allen? May 1857? 2 engs[English?] ? ? George Smith... ; photocopied image of a Victorian Gothic oak partner's desk with details in John Bedford's hand.
Bindings
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection A590: original coloured paper covers, W. Sharp's Lithog. design on parts 2 and 3, modern green cloth book box, spine title Original designs for household furniture - G. Smith.
Provenance
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection A590: From the John Evan Bedford Library, gifted in 2019. Twenty-first-century pictorial bookplate on front pastedown of each part: John Evan Bedford. Former reference: FEo/77(3). Black inkstamp on front cover and flyleaf of each part: OHMA Art[?] Department[?]. Nineteenth-century MS. inscription on front flyleaf of each part: K[?]. O. H. M. A. / MS. annotation in John Bedford's hand about plates watermarked 1835 or 1836.
Access and usage
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