The life and work of Thomas Chippendale
Details
Type of record: Book
Title: The life and work of Thomas Chippendale
Other titles: Life and works of Thomas Chippendale
Classmark: Bedford Collection A410
Creator(s): Gilbert, Christopher
Additional creator(s): Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019) (Former owner); Christie, Manson & Woods (Other)
Related people: Chippendale, Thomas, 1718-1779
Publisher: Studio Vista : Christie's
Publication city: London
Date(s): 1978
Language: English
Size and medium: 1 volume (xxi, 329 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of colour plates; 288 pages of plates, 6 unnumbered pages)
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/729512
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991019884856905181
Description
Limited edition one-volume set of 500 copies signed by the author.
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection A410: No. 96 of an edition of 500 copies.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Features
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection A410: Signed by the author; Contains loose clipping: Christopher Gilbert, expert on the furniture of Chippendale (The Telegraph, 20 October 1998)
Bindings
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection A410: Full grain natural leather binding with gold tooling, marbled endpapers, gilt edging.
Provenance
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection A410: From the John Evan Bedford Library, gifted in 2019. Twenty-first-century pictorial bookplate on front pastedown: John Evan Bedford. Former reference: FEG/106.
Access and usage
Access
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