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Ornamental designs for furniture and house decoration, being a series of designs in lithography, selected from the works of the best French and German ornamentalists. With a treatise on perspective, and an introductory essay on ornamental art

Archive Print Item: Bedford Collection A632

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Type of record: Book

Title: Ornamental designs for furniture and house decoration, being a series of designs in lithography, selected from the works of the best French and German ornamentalists. With a treatise on perspective, and an introductory essay on ornamental art

Level: Item

Classmark: Bedford Collection A632

Publisher: A. Fullarton & Co., Stead's Place, and 21 Lothian Street, Edinburgh; and 106 Newgate Street, London

Publication city: Edinburgh

Date(s): [184-?]

Language: English

Size and medium: 3 preliminary leaves, [9]-21 pages, 1 leaf, 5 pages

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/729176

Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991019870857005181

Description

The treatise on perspective is by Peter Nicholson.

Features

Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection A632: loose note in John Bedford's hand collating the plates and with a list of designers; loose note in pencil in a 19th century hand: A recipe for gesso contributed by Mr G. F. Wath [...].


Bindings


Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection A632: original publisher's binding red cloth, gold tooled on cover [worn]; re-backed and re-edged.

Provenance

Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection A632: From the John Evan Bedford Library, gifted in 2019. Twenty-first-century pictorial bookplate on front pastedown: John Evan Bedford. Former reference: FEO/55.

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