The repository of arts, literature, commerce, manufactures, fashions and politics (Vol 5)
Details
Type of record: Book
Title: The repository of arts, literature, commerce, manufactures, fashions and politics (Vol 5)
Other titles: Ackermann's repository of arts
Classmark: Bedford Collection B328
Additional creator(s): Ackermann, Rudolph (1764-1834) (Publisher); Shoberl, Frederic (1852) (Editor); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019) (Former owner)
Publisher: Printed, for R. Ackermann, by L. Harrison
Publication city: [London]
Date(s): [1809-1815]
Language: English
Size and medium: 14 volumes
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/731282
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991019920576905181
Description
Engraved title page, with vignette.
Imprint from colophon (varies: v. 2 (July/Dec. 1809), Harrison and Rutter; v. 11-12 (1814), L. Harrison & J.C. Leigh).
"List of plates in each number: 1. & 2. Ladies fashionable dresses... 3. Fashionable furniture, or fashionable carriages, or new implements of husbandry, manufacture, &c. 4. Inside view of a fashionable magazine or shop ... 5. Sporting subject ... 6. A beautiful wood-cut, with real patterns of the most fashionable articles ..."--"Prospectus" at end of the 4th no. (April 1809).
Some numbers include advertisements at end.
Proprietor and publisher : Rudolph Ackermann. Editor : Frederick Shoberl, Vol. 1, third number (Mar. 1809) - Vol. 14, eighty-fourth number (Dec. 1815).
Referred to in advertisements as : Ackermann's repository. This title also used as the spine title on the bound volumes of some editions.
Some issues include advertisements at end.
The June or December issues are in some vols. followed by a supplement.
Subsequently published in a new series with a shorter title from Jan, 1816 : Repository of arts, literature, fashions &c.
Includes bibliographical references (Abbey, J.R. Life in England 212).
Vol. 1 (Jan./June 1809)-v. 4 (July/Dec. 1810) include Supplement, with index.
Features
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection B328: John Bedford's page markers in several volumes; loose fabric sample in vol 5 pinned to envelope.
Bindings
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection B328: nineteenth-century green grained half calf[?], grey paper over boards, gold tooled title [Repository of Arts] and 1st series on spine.
Provenance
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection B328: From the John Evan Bedford Library, gifted in 2019. Twenty-first-century pictorial bookplate on front pastedown: John Evan Bedford. Former reference: PF/3.MS. annotations in pencil on rear flyleaves of several volumes.
Access and usage
Access
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