Oeuvres de Gilles-Marie Oppenord... contenant différents fragments d'architecture & d'ornements à l'usage de bâtiments sacrés, publics et particuliers
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Type of record: Book
Title: Oeuvres de Gilles-Marie Oppenord... contenant différents fragments d'architecture & d'ornements à l'usage de bâtiments sacrés, publics et particuliers
Other titles: De volledige werken van Gillis-Maria Oppenord; De volledige werken van Gillis-Maria Oppenord
Classmark: Bedford Collection A637
Creator(s): Oppenord, Gilles-Marie (1672-1742)
Additional creator(s): Huquier, Gabriel (1695-1772) (Other); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019) (Former owner); H H Martyn & Co. LTD., Sunningend Works, Cheltenham (Former owner); Caarelsen & Co., Amsterdam (Publisher)
Related people: Oppenord, Gilles-Marie, 1672-1742; Oppenord, Gilles-Marie, 1672-1742
Publisher: Caarelsen & Co, Spuistraat, 33a
Publication city: Amsterdam
Date(s): [date of publication not identified, 1890?]
Language: French
Size and medium: [2], 120 plates [mounted]
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/729185
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991019874057505181
Description
Published by Gabriel Huquier in Paris c.1748-1751, and known as Le Grand Oppenord. Huquier bought many drawings by Oppenord after his death in 1742.
Reproductions of the original plates issued by Caarelsen & Co in c.1890.
Bedford Collection copy A637 has half-title and title page in Dutch followed by mounted reproductions[?] of etched original title page in French, dedication and portrait, then 117 plates. Plates [height] 24-26cm.
Features
Bindings
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection A637: Nineteenth-century? half-calf, marbled paper over boards, gold tooled on spine with title in Dutch, marbled endpapers.
Provenance
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection A637: From the John Evan Bedford Library, gifted in 2019. Twenty-first-century pictorial bookplate on front pastedown: John Evan Bedford. Former reference: OR/21. Twentieth-century purple inkstamp on front flyleaf, half-title and endpaper: H H Martyn & Co. LTD., Sunningend Works, Cheltenham [architectural decorators and furnishers, founded in 1888, Ltd company in 1900].
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