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Masterpieces of English furniture and clocks : a study of walnut and mahogany furniture, and of the associated crafts of the looking-glass maker and japanner, together with an account of Thomas Tompion and other famous clock-makers of the 17th and 18th centuries

Archive Print Item: Bedford Collection A490

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Type of record: Book

Title: Masterpieces of English furniture and clocks : a study of walnut and mahogany furniture, and of the associated crafts of the looking-glass maker and japanner, together with an account of Thomas Tompion and other famous clock-makers of the 17th and 18th centuries

Level: Item

Classmark: Bedford Collection A490

Creator(s): Symonds, R W (1889-1958)

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

Publisher: B.T. Batsford

Publication city: London

Date(s): [1940]

Language: English

Size and medium: xii, 172 pages including illustrations (including portraits, map, facsimiles) plates (XII color, including frontispiece)

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/730978

Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991019924777205181

Description

"Published spring, 1940."


"The edition of this work is limited to 750 copies for sale in Great Britain and 500 for the U.S.A."


Includes bibliographical references and index.

Provenance

Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection A490: From the John Evan Bedford Library, gifted in 2019. Twenty-first-century pictorial bookplate on front pastedown: John Evan Bedford. Former reference: FEG/64.

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