King's specimens of furniture in the Elizabethan and Louis Quatorze styles
Details
Type of record: Book
Title: King's specimens of furniture in the Elizabethan and Louis Quatorze styles
Other titles: Specimens of furniture in the Elizabethan and Louis Quatorze styles; King's specimens of furniture
Classmark: Bedford Collection A621
Creator(s): King, Thomas (fl. 1820-1850)
Additional creator(s): Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019) (Former owner); Sainsbury, Montague Ely (1905-1998?) (Former owner)
Publisher: [publisher not identified]
Publication city: [London?]
Date(s): [1842?]
Language: English
Size and medium: 48 leaves of plates [lithographs?]
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/729100
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991019865846805181
Description
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Bedford Collection copy A621 has no title page or imprint details. Date suggested by John Bedford on front flyleaf is 1842; ET Joy in his Pictorial dictionary of British 19th century furniture designs suggests 1835. Other records (for example Met Museum) suggest John Weale as the publisher.
Features
Bindings
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection A621: modern (twentieth-century) quarter calf, blue decorated paper over boards.
Provenance
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection A621: From the John Evan Bedford Library, gifted in 2019. Twenty-first-century pictorial bookplate on front pastedown: John Evan Bedford. Former reference: FEO/48. MS. annotation in John Bedford's hand about the plates and a possible date for them. Twentieth-century armorial on front pastedown: M. Sainsbury [i.e. Montague Ely Sainsbury (1905-1998?), antiques dealer, 35 Gay Street, Bath]. Pencil sketches of furniture, some naïve, pasted on rear [modern] flyleaves.
Access and usage
Access
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