Designs of Furniture by William Smee and Son, A stock of which is always kept ready for sale, at their cabinet and upholstery manufactory and warerooms, No. 6, Finsbury Pavement, London
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Type of record: Book
Title: Designs of Furniture by William Smee and Son, A stock of which is always kept ready for sale, at their cabinet and upholstery manufactory and warerooms, No. 6, Finsbury Pavement, London
Classmark: Bedford Collection C037
Additional creator(s): Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019) (Former owner); Betts, John (fl.1827-1855) (Printer); William Smee and Son (Cabinet-maker)
Publisher: J Betts, 7 Compton St, Brunswick Square
Publication city: London
Date(s): no date [1835-?]
Language: English
Size and medium: 324 numbered plates
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/732479
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991019958997605181
Description
Plate 13 has J Betts, 7 Compton St, Brunswick Square [printer]. For a list of plates and information on those missing, see Smee archival file MS 2241/2/635. From 1835 William Smee [and son] was based at 6, Finsbury Park. See Dictionary of British and Irish furniture makers (BIFMO), Smee, William etc.
See also Bedford Collection copy A106, early trade catalogue for William Smee and Son.
Features
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection C037: loose note in John Bedford's hand listing missing plate numbers.
Bindings
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection C037: quarter calf, gold tooled on spine, later paper over boards.
Provenance
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection C037: From the John Evan Bedford Library, gifted in 2019. Twenty-first-century pictorial bookplate on front pastedown: John Evan Bedford. Former reference: TC/FE/4. MS. annotation in pencil on pastedown in John Bedford's hand about plates and missing plates and pages, including index. Nineteenth-century MS. annotations in pencil and in ink on plates [measurements] with pencil sketches on certain pages.
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