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Essays on the nature and principles of taste (Vol 2)

Archive Print Item: Bedford Collection B307

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Type of record: Book

Title: Essays on the nature and principles of taste (Vol 2)

Level: Item

Classmark: Bedford Collection B307

Creator(s): Alison, Archibald (1757-1839)

Additional creator(s): Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019) (Former owner); Cuthbertson, D (Former owner); Harris, John (1931-) (Former owner)

Publisher: Printed by the heirs of D. Willison for Archibald Constable and company, Edinburgh; Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown & Green

Publication city: Edinburgh : London

Date(s): 1825

Language: English

Size and medium: 2 volumes

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/730660

Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991010426179705181

Features

Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection B307 (vol 1): loose excerpt from sale catalogue for this item.


Bindings


Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection B307: full green morocco, gold and blind tooled on covers, gold tooled on spine, marbled endpapers and fore-edges.

Provenance

Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection B307: From the John Evan Bedford Library, gifted in 2019. Twenty-first-century pictorial bookplate on front pastedown of both volumes: John Evan Bedford. Former reference: GH/21. Nineteenth-century armorial on front pastedown of both volumes: D. Cuthbertson [i.e. see Franks bequest 7751, bookplate engraved by Swan]. Twentieth-century pictorial bookplate [by wood engraver Alan Reynolds Stone (1909-1979)] on front endpaper of both volumes: John Harris [i.e. John Harris (b. 1931-), curator and architectural historian]. Small bookbinder's label on front flyleaf of vol 1: Bound by Carss, Glasgow.

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