The universal system of household furniture : consisting of above 300 designs in the most elegant taste, both useful and ornamental, finely engraved, in which the nature of ornament and perspective is accurately exemplified. The whole made convenient to the nobility and gentry, in their choice, and comprehensive to the workman, by directions for executing the several designs, with specimens of ornament for young practitioners in drawing
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Type of record: Book
Title: The universal system of household furniture : consisting of above 300 designs in the most elegant taste, both useful and ornamental, finely engraved, in which the nature of ornament and perspective is accurately exemplified. The whole made convenient to the nobility and gentry, in their choice, and comprehensive to the workman, by directions for executing the several designs, with specimens of ornament for young practitioners in drawing
Classmark: Bedford Collection B423
Creator(s): Mayhew, Jonathan (1720-1766)
Additional creator(s): Ince, William (1752?-1804) (Designer); Edwards, Ralph (1894-1977) (Editor); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019) (Former owner)
Publisher: A. Tiranti
Publication city: London
Date(s): 1960
Language: English
Size and medium: [a]- pages, iv, 11 pages, 95 plates
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/730777
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991019912159905181
Description
English and French; added title page in French.
Includes bibliographical references.
Features
Leeds University Library copy at B423: Contains loose clipping: The universal system of household furniture [review] (The Connoisseur, Feb. 1961).
Bindings
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection B423: In publisher's slip case.
Provenance
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection B423: From the John Evan Bedford Library, gifted in 2019. Twenty-first-century pictorial bookplate on front pastedown: John Evan Bedford. Former reference: FER/9.
Access and usage
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