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Essai sur l'art des jardins modernes

Archive Print Item: Bedford Collection B298

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Type of record: Book

Title: Essai sur l'art des jardins modernes

Other titles: History of the modern taste in gardening; Essay on modern gardening

Level: Item

Classmark: Bedford Collection B298

Creator(s): Walpole, Horace (1717-1797)

Additional creator(s): Walpole, Horace (1717-1797) (Other); Nivernais, Louis Jules Barbon Mancini-Mazarini duc de (1716-1798) (Other); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019) (Former owner)

Publisher: Imprimé à Strawberry-Hill, par T. Kirgate

Publication city: [Twickenham]

Date(s): MDCCLXXXV [1785]

Language: French

Size and medium: [ii], 94 pages

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/729673

Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991016754819705181

Collection group(s): John Evan Bedford Library of Furniture History

Description

Even numbers on rectos.

Printed by Edward Yardley, assistant to Kirgate.

An edition of 400 copies printed.

Indexed in: ESTC

Indexed in: Hazen. Walpole,

Features

Bindings

Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection B298: modern [20th century] half calf, marbled paper over boards, gold tooled on spine.

Provenance

Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection B298: From the John Evan Bedford Library, gifted in 2019. Twenty-first-century pictorial bookplate on front pastedown: John Evan Bedford. Former reference: GH/5.

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