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A swan sings : being a memoir of the House of Gane (successively C. & W. Trapnell, Trapnell & Gane and P.E Gane Ltd) : makers and sellers of furniture in Bristol from 1824 to 1954, and sometime of Cardiff and Newport

Archive Print Item: Bedford Collection B380

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Type of record: Book

Title: A swan sings : being a memoir of the House of Gane (successively C. & W. Trapnell, Trapnell & Gane and P.E Gane Ltd) : makers and sellers of furniture in Bristol from 1824 to 1954, and sometime of Cardiff and Newport

Level: Item

Classmark: Bedford Collection B380

Creator(s): Wellington, Hubert

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

Related people: Gaines family; Gaines family

Publisher: [C.E. Gane]

Publication city: [Bristol]

Date(s): [1954]

Language: English

Size and medium: 30 pages

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/730638

Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991019896857905181

Description

"November 1954: 750 copies printed for Crofton E. Gane, 24 Downs Park West, Bristol 6" -- title page verso.

Provenance

Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection B380: From the John Evan Bedford Library, gifted in 2019. Twenty-first-century pictorial bookplate on inside front cover: John Evan Bedford. Former reference: CF/16. MS. inscription on inside front cover: The item on page 6 was sold at auction in Amsterdam in 2010/11 - see files (CM's archive) under 'Trapnell & Crane'. Stamped on inside front cover: Council of Industrial Design Scottish Committee.

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