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English furniture, 1660-1714 : from Charles II to Queen Anne

Archive Print Item: Bedford Collection A501

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Type of record: Book

Title: English furniture, 1660-1714 : from Charles II to Queen Anne

Level: Item

Classmark: Bedford Collection A501

Creator(s): Bowett, Adam (Furniture historian)

Additional creator(s): Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019) (Former owner); Antique Collectors' Club (Other)

Publisher: Antique Collectors' Club

Publication city: Woodbridge, England; [Wappingers' Falls, NY]

Date(s): [2002]

Language: English

Size and medium: 323 pages

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/731234

Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991019930675205181

Description

Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-317) and index.


"This book describes the development of fashionable English furniture between the restoration of Charles II in 1660 and the death of Queen Anne in 1714. Based very largely on contemporary documents and on original and firmly documented furniture, it provides a closely-reasoned analysis of changing furniture styles, together with much technical information on materials and processes. The author's radical new approach to the stylistic and structural analysis of furniture will change perceptions of English furniture and establish a new chronology for late 17th and early 18th century English furniture. This illustrated book is the first comprehensive review of the subject for nearly one hundred years."--Jacket.

Features

Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection A501: Contains souvenir bookmark: Ragley Hall, Warwickshire.

Provenance

Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection A501: From the John Evan Bedford Library, gifted in 2019. Twenty-first-century pictorial bookplate on front pastedown: John Evan Bedford. Former reference: FEG/139.

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