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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

Archive Print Item: Bedford Collection B423

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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

Level: Item

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.

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