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The decoration and renovation of the home : a practical handbook for house owners and tenants, architects, decorators and others, with 14 coloured plates showing 89 harmonious colour schemes for wall decoration, etc., and many illustrations in text

Archive Print Item: Bedford Collection B236

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Type of record: Book

Title: The decoration and renovation of the home : a practical handbook for house owners and tenants, architects, decorators and others, with 14 coloured plates showing 89 harmonious colour schemes for wall decoration, etc., and many illustrations in text

Level: Item

Classmark: Bedford Collection B236

Creator(s): Jennings, Arthur Seymour (1860-1928)

Additional creator(s): Binstead, Herbert Ernest (1869-) (Contributor); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019) (Former owner)

Publisher: W.R. Howell & company; Spon & Chamberlain

Publication city: London, New York

Date(s): 1923

Language: English

Size and medium: 220 pages

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/729482

Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991019884450005181

Description

With a chapter on " Period furniture and appropriate mural decoration" by Herbert E. Binstead -- title page.


Includes several unnumbered pages of advertisements at the beginning and end of the book.


Includes: "List of practical books" (pages 204-205), "List of periodicals" (page 205), and index.

Provenance

Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection B236: From the John Evan Bedford Library, gifted in 2019. Twenty-first-century pictorial bookplate on front pastedown: John Evan Bedford. Former reference: JDO/14.

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