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A collection of ornamental designs : applicable to furniture, frames & the decoration of rooms, in the style of Louis 14th : on 24 plates

Archive Print Item: Bedford Collection A496

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Type of record: Book

Title: A collection of ornamental designs : applicable to furniture, frames & the decoration of rooms, in the style of Louis 14th : on 24 plates

Other titles: Chippendale's ornaments & designs

Level: Item

Classmark: Bedford Collection A496

Additional creator(s): Lock, Matthias (1710-1765) (Creator); Chippendale, Thomas (1718-1779) (Other); Vivares, François and others (1709-1780) (Other); Walker, Anthony (1726-1765) (Other); Taylor, M[artin]? (Other); June, John (fl. 1740-1770) (Engraver); Glazier, P (Engraver); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019) (Former owner); Lees-Milne, James (1908-1997) (Former owner); Sainsbury, Montague Ely (1905-1998?) (Former owner)

Publisher: [M. Taylor]

Publication city: [London]

Date(s): [1838?]

Language: English

Size and medium: 24 leaves of plates

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/731240

Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991019930677605181

Collection group(s): John Evan Bedford Library of Furniture History

Description

Several plates signed by Lock; attribution from Winterthur catalog, v. 8, p. 228.

Spine title: Chippendale's ornaments & designs &c.

Plates 1-6 are from Mattias[Matthew] Lock, Six Tables; plates 7-12 are from Vivares and Anthony Walker; plate 13 was used as title plate to Robert Sayer's re-issue of Lock in c.1768, but is by Glazier; plates 14-18 are from Lock, A new drawing book of ornaments for looking glass frames; plates 19-24 are from the second suite from Lock, A new drawing book of ornaments, shields. John Bedford's identification. Re-issued by M Taylor c.1840 and c.1850 is next edition with title page corrected to read Lock not Chippendale.

Features

Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection A496: loose photocopy of John Bedford's annotation on front flyleaf identifying the plates and previous publications [see note above].

Bindings

Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection A496: contemporary [19th century] green cloth, re-backed.

Provenance

Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection A496: From the John Evan Bedford Library, gifted in 2019. Twenty-first-century pictorial bookplate on front pastedown: John Evan Bedford. Former reference: FEo/64. Twentieth-century armorial bookplate on front pastedown: M Sainsbury [i.e. Montague Ely Sainsbury, 1905-1998?, antiques dealer, 35 Gay Street, Bath. There was a sale of his collection at Christie’s in 1999]. Twentieth-century pictorial bookplate on front pastedown: James Lees-Milne [i.e. James Les-Milne (1908-1997), English author, architectural historian, and diarist]. MS. inscription on front flyleaf: Marshall Sissin [i.e. Marshall Sisson (1897-1978), English architect and surveyor to the Royal Academy]. MS. annotations on front flyleaf and certain plates in John Bedford's hand identifying the plates and previous publications.

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