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Early Georgian interiors

Archive Print Item: Bedford Collection B243

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Type of record: Book

Title: Early Georgian interiors

Level: Item

Classmark: Bedford Collection B243

Creator(s): Cornforth, John (1937-)

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

Publisher: Yale University Press

Publication city: New Haven

Date(s): 2004

Language: English

Size and medium: 12 unnumbered pages, 360 pages

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/729525

Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991015606669705181

Description

Includes bibliographical references and index.


Contents: Aspects of early Georgian fashion and taste -- The uses of rooms and changing social practice, 1685-1760 -- The primacy of upholstery -- Aspects of display -- The significance of William Kent and the development of architectural decoration -- Parade, comfort, and variety in interiors, 1740-1760 -- The rise of historical thinking -- The role of pictures in decoration -- The influence of the Orient -- Planning and sequences of decoration, 1720-1760.

Features

Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection B246: Contains loose clipping: John Cornforth, Early Georgian interiors [review] by Lisa White (Furniture History Society Newsletter, no. 161, Feb. 2000)

Provenance

Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection B243: From the John Evan Bedford Library, gifted in 2019. Twenty-first-century pictorial bookplate on front pastedown: John Evan Bedford. Former reference: JDE/25.

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