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On the use of the improved papier-mâché in furniture, in the interior decoration of buildings, and in works of art

Archive Print Item: Bedford Collection A631

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Type of record: Book

Title: On the use of the improved papier-mâché in furniture, in the interior decoration of buildings, and in works of art

Other titles: Improved papier-máché in furniture

Level: Item

Classmark: Bedford Collection A631

Creator(s): Bielefeld, Charles Frederick

Additional creator(s): Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019) (Former owner); Rickerby, Joseph (Printer)

Publisher: Papier mâché works, No. 15, Wellington Street North, Strand

Publication city: London

Date(s): 1850

Language: English

Size and medium: 12 pages, [2], 9 pages

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/729163

Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991019870056305181

Description

Plates have special title page: Ornaments in every style of design, practically applicable to the decoration of the interior of domestic and public buildings... manufactured in the improved papier mâché, by Charles F. Bielefeld ... London, published the author, 1850.


Plates number 15-142.


Printed by J. Rickerby, Sherbourn Lane, London. Certain plates drawn by Thomas Kearnan and C Bagster.

Features

Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection A631: loose excerpt from sale catalogue for this item, no. 7.


Bindings


Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection A631: contemporary publisher's binding, embossed green cloth, decorated fore-edges.

Provenance

Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection A631: From the John Evan Bedford Library, gifted in 2019. Twenty-first-century pictorial bookplate on front pastedown: John Evan Bedford. Former reference: TC/o/30.

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