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The upholsterer's and cabinet maker's pocket assistant : being a collection of designs for fashionable upholstery and cabinet work, on one hundred plates, coloured (Vol 2)

Archive Print Item: Bedford Collection G029

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Type of record: Book

Title: The upholsterer's and cabinet maker's pocket assistant : being a collection of designs for fashionable upholstery and cabinet work, on one hundred plates, coloured (Vol 2)

Level: Item

Classmark: Bedford Collection G029

Creator(s): Taylor, John (fl. 1821-1829)

Additional creator(s): Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019) (Former owner); Taylor, John (fl. 1821-1829) (Designer)

Publisher: Edward Lumley, 27, Chancery Lane

Publication city: London

Date(s): [1822?,1825?-1828?]

Language: English

Size and medium: 2 volumes, 100 leaves of plates

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/732472

Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991019958996505181

Description

Each vol. has separate title page and 50 plates.


Each plate hand coloured.


Vol. I Upholstery work -- Vol. II Cabinet work.


Bedford Collection copy G028, Vol 1 complete, plate 12 has watermark: J Whatman 1825. Vol 2 incomplete: wanting plate 11 and 37, last plate [50] has watermark: J Whatman 1828. Imprint on last plate: Taylor, Del, Bedford Court, Covt Garden [i.e. John Taylor, furniture designer and upholsterer, active at Covent Garden, 1821-1829.]


Bedford Collection copy G029 incomplete: Vol 2 only, no title page, uncoloured and wanting plate 35. Some leaves are watermarked: John Layes 1822

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Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection G028: contemporary quarter sheep, gold tooled title on spine, embossed green cloth over boards.


Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection G029: contemporary half calf, green cloth over boards.

Provenance

Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection G028: From the John Evan Bedford Library, gifted in 2019. Twenty-first-century pictorial bookplate on front pastedown: John Evan Bedford. Former reference: FEo/30 (2 vols). MS. annotation on front pastedowns of each volume in John Bedford's hand collating plates and describing watermark.


Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection G029 (vol 2 only): From the John Evan Bedford Library, gifted in 2019. Twenty-first-century pictorial bookplate on front pastedown: John Evan Bedford. Former reference: FEo/82. MS. inscription on front pastedown: Cornelius Hamlin. MS. annotation on front pastedown in John Bedford's hand about this item and its plates. MS annotation on front flyleaf: plates watermarked 1822.

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