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Thirty six new, original & practical designs for chairs : adapted for the drawing and dining room, parlour and hall

Archive Print Item: Bedford Collection A602

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Type of record: Book

Title: Thirty six new, original & practical designs for chairs : adapted for the drawing and dining room, parlour and hall

Other titles: Tom's new designs for chairs

Level: Item

Classmark: Bedford Collection A602

Publisher: J[oseph]. Hollway lithog. 10, Union Street [published by W. Evans, printer, bookseller, and stationer]

Publication city: Bath

Date(s): [1830?]

Language: German

Size and medium: lithographed title-plate., 36 lithographed plates

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/730864

Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991019865857005181

Description

Originally published by Toms around 1830. This later issue has the imprint on the publisher's upper board 'To Be Had Of W. Evans, Printer, Bookseller, And Stationer, 41, Broad-Street, Bath, Who Has Purchased All The Remaining Copies. Price 16s.' The BM. Gen. Cat. dates this issue '[ca. 1835]'.

Features

Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection A602: printout of an email message to John Bedford from Quaritch Ltd, booksellers, dated 13 March 2013 about this item and other items viewed on John Bedford's visit; loose note in John Bedford's hand listing William Toms, William Evans, and Joseph Hollway's business premises.


Bindings


Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection A602: contemporary printed green paper boards [cloth backed], re-backed with original embossed cloth?

Provenance

Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection A602: From the John Evan Bedford Library, gifted in 2019. Twenty-first-century pictorial bookplate on front pastedown: John Evan Bedford. Former reference: FEo/28.

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