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Domestic utensils of wood, XVIth to XIXth century : a short history of wooden articles in domestic use from the sixteenth to the middle of the nineteenth century

Archive Print Item: Bedford Collection B238

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Type of record: Book

Title: Domestic utensils of wood, XVIth to XIXth century : a short history of wooden articles in domestic use from the sixteenth to the middle of the nineteenth century

Level: Item

Classmark: Bedford Collection B238

Creator(s): Evan-Thomas, Owen

Additional creator(s): Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019) (Former owner)

Publisher: O. Evan-Thomas Ltd

Publication city: London

Date(s): 1932

Language: English

Size and medium: ix, 178 pages, 70 pages of plates

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/729480

Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991019884449705181

Description

Includes index.


Introduction -- Drinking Vessels -- Wassail or Lamb's Wool Bowls -- Drinking Cups, Tankards and Methers -- Trenchers, Wooden Platters and Bowls -- Ornamental Fruit Trenchers or "Roundels" -- Wooden Mortars, Tallies and Moulds -- Coffee and Spice Mills -- Tobacco Rapes or Rasps -- Snuff Boxes -- Pipes, Pipe Cases and Pipe Stoppers -- Salt Cellars, Spoons and Ladles -- Nutcrackers -- The Peasant Arts of Great Britain: Stay Busks, Knitting Sheaths, Welsh Love-Spoons, Lace Bobbins -- Miscellaneous -- Index to Plates.

Provenance

Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection B238: From the John Evan Bedford Library, gifted in 2019. Twenty-first-century pictorial bookplate on front pastedown: John Evan Bedford. Former reference: CLS/45..

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