Selection of ornaments in forty pages : for the use of sculptors, painters, carvers, modellers, chasers, embossers, &c
Details
Type of record: Book
Title: Selection of ornaments in forty pages : for the use of sculptors, painters, carvers, modellers, chasers, embossers, &c
Other titles: Repository of Arts
Classmark: Bedford Collection A629
Additional creator(s): Ackermann, Rudolph (1764-1834) (Other); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019) (Former owner); Beunat, Joseph (fl. 1805-1823) (Other)
Publisher: Printed at R. Ackermann's Lithographic Press and published November 1st 1817 at his Repository of Arts
Publication city: London
Date(s): 1817-1819
Language: English
Size and medium: 3 parts (40, 40, 40 leaves)
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/729141
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991019870057405181
Description
Issued 1 November 1817, 1 June 1818 [part 2] and 1 January 1819 [part 3]. Each part has engraved title page only; parts 2-3 have title: A Selection of ornaments...
Plates in part 1 taken from Recueil des dessins d'ornements d'architecture de la manufacture de Joseph Beunat (1814), see Bedford Collection A122.
Indexed in: Wilstach,
Indexed in: RIBAL catalogue
Indexed in: Pauline Agius, Ackermann's regency furniture and interiors (1984).
Features
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection A629: loose note in John Bedford's hand about the plates in this item.
Bindings
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection A629: contemporary calf, gold tooled on cover, edges and spine.
Provenance
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection A629: From the John Evan Bedford Library, gifted in 2019. Twenty-first-century pictorial bookplate on front pastedown: John Evan Bedford. Former reference: ORo/27.
Access and usage
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