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Irish furniture : woodwork and carving in Ireland from the earliest times to the Act of Union

Archive Print Item: Bedford Collection A534

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Type of record: Book

Title: Irish furniture : woodwork and carving in Ireland from the earliest times to the Act of Union

Level: Item

Classmark: Bedford Collection A534

Creator(s): Glin, Desmond FitzGerald Knight of (1937-2011); Peill, James

Additional creator(s): Fennell, James (Photographer); McGrath, Dara (Photographer); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019) (Former owner)

Publisher: Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art by Yale University Press

Publication city: New Haven

Date(s): [2007]

Language: English

Size and medium: viii, 323 pages

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/731536

Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991019935297305181

Description

Includes bibliographical references (pages 314-319) and index.


Furniture and woodwork up to the restoration of Charles II in 1660 -- The restoration period -- Carving in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries -- Ireland in the second quarter of the eighteenth century -- Furniture of the mid-eighteenth century -- Ireland in the late eighteenth century -- Catalogue of Irish furniture -- Appendix I: A dictionary of eighteenth-century Irish furniture-makers by John Rogers -- Appendix II: Charles Coleman's Bill.


"This illustrated and comprehensive volume is the first devoted entirely to the subject of Irish furniture and woodwork. It provides a detailed survey, encompassing everything from medieval choir stalls to magnificent drawing-room suites for the great houses, from earliest times to the end of the eighteenth century."--Jacket.

Features

Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection A534: Contains photocopy of trade card tipped-in on front flyleaf: Francis and John Booker, 'Looking glass merchants' of Essex Bridge, Dublin, c. 1760; loose photocopy of book review by Joan Porter.

Provenance

Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection A534: From the John Evan Bedford Library, gifted in 2019. Twenty-first-century pictorial bookplate on front pastedown: John Evan Bedford. Former reference: FEG/167.

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