Chippendale's ornaments and interior decorations in the old French style : consisting of hall, glass & picture frames, chimney pieces, stands for china, clock and watch cases, girandoles, brackets, grates, lanterns, ornamental furniture and various ornaments for carvers, Modellers, &c
Details
Type of record: Book
Title: Chippendale's ornaments and interior decorations in the old French style : consisting of hall, glass & picture frames, chimney pieces, stands for china, clock and watch cases, girandoles, brackets, grates, lanterns, ornamental furniture and various ornaments for carvers, Modellers, &c
Classmark: Bedford Collection E150
Additional creator(s): Chippendale, Thomas (1718-1779) (Other); Johnson, Thos (1714?-1778) (Other); Weale, John (1791-1862) (Other); Lock, Matthias (1710-1765) (Other); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019) (Former owner)
Publisher: Sold by J. Weale, Library of Architecture & Science, No 59, High Holborn
Publication city: London
Date(s): [183-?]
Language: English
Size and medium: 33 leaves of plates
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/731841
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991019948097605181
Description
Two title plates and 31 other plates. Bedford Collection copy E150 has 9 numbered plates in sequence, of which 1 is title plate A book of ornaments by Matthias Lock, 12 numbered non-sequentially, and 11 unnumbered plates, including 9 of chimney pieces.
Added title page: A book of ornaments / drawn and engrav'd by M. Lock; principally adapted for carvers, but generally useful for various decorations in the present taste (London: published by John Weale, No 59 High Holborn), the 1831 re-issue by Weale.
18 plates signed T. Chippendale del., some engraved by B. Clowes or J. Kirk, published in earlier works (18th cent.) under [Thomas] Johnson's name, for example, from Johnson's To the Right Honble. Lord Blakeney, 1758, see Bedford Collection A130. Plate 2 from Six Sconces by Matthias Lock published by Sayer in 1768 and re-issued by Weale in 1858-9. Work spuriously ascribed to Chippendale. The publisher erased Johnson's name and substituted Chippendale's. Cf. Thomas Johnson and English rococo / H. Hayward. 1964. p. 3-4.
Features
Bindings
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection E150: modern blue cloth [20th century], gold tooled on spine.
Provenance
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection E150: From the John Evan Bedford Library, gifted in 2019. Twenty-first-century pictorial bookplate on front pastedown: John Evan Bedford. Former reference: FEo/62. MS. annotations on certain pages in John Bedford's hand about the plate[s] and publications from which some are taken.
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