The ladies amusement, or, Whole art of japanning made easy : Illustrated in upwards of fifteen-hundred different designs, on two hundred copper plates; consisting of flowers, shells, figures, birds, insects, landscapes, shipping, beasts, vases, borders, &c. All adapted in the best manner for joining in groupes, or being placed in single objects
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Title: The ladies amusement, or, Whole art of japanning made easy : Illustrated in upwards of fifteen-hundred different designs, on two hundred copper plates; consisting of flowers, shells, figures, birds, insects, landscapes, shipping, beasts, vases, borders, &c. All adapted in the best manner for joining in groupes, or being placed in single objects
Other titles: Whole art of japanning made easy; Art of japanning made easy; Collection of curious insects
Classmark: Bedford Collection A687
Additional creator(s): Sayer, Robert (1725-1794) (Bookseller); Pillement, Jean (1728-1808) (Illustrator); Fenn, C (Illustrator); Rösel von Rosenhof, August Johann (1705-1759) (Illustrator); Benoist, A (1721-1770) (Illustrator); Walker, Anthony (1726-1765) (Illustrator); Hemmerich, Cornelius Heinrich (Etcher); June, John (fl. 1740-1770) (Etcher); Hancock, Robert (1730-1817) (Engraver); Benazech, Peter (1730?-1798) (Etcher); Elliot, William (1727-1766) (Etcher); Roberts, James (1725-1799) (Etcher); Stevens, H (Etcher); Couse, J (Etcher); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019) (Former owner); Landsbergs Bokhandel (Bookseller)
Publisher: Printed for Robert Sayer, map and printseller, at the Golden-Buck, opposite Fetter-Lane, Fleet Street
Publication city: London
Date(s): [1762?]
Language: English
Size and medium: 6 pages, 200 leaves of plates
Manifest: https://iiif.library.leeds.ac.uk/presentation/cc/p6625pwk
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/737702
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991019854103105181
Collection group(s): John Evan Bedford Library of Furniture History
Description
Date of publication taken from ESTC.
Oblong folio; horizontal chain lines.
"The art of japanning made easy": pages 3-6.
"A collection of curious insects": plates 83-95.
Plates 137-142, 154 and 158-162 with two etchings per sheet.
Woodcut initial, tailpiece. Plates are etchings.
Artists: Jean Pillement (39 plates); C. Fenn (19 plates); Roesel [i.e. August Johann Rösel von Rosenhof?] (12 plates); AB [Antoine Benoist?] (6 plates) and [Anthony?] Walker (3 plates). Etchers: C.H. Hemmerich (27 plates); J. June (15 plates); R. Hancock (10 plates); P. Benazech (6 plates); [William?] Elliott (4 plates); James Roberts (2 plates); H. Stevens (1 plates) and Couse (1 plates). Many plates are unsigned.
Indexed in: ESTC,
Features
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection A687: two pages of loose notes in John Bedford's hand collating the plates; set of 9 photographs of this item and 3 of George Parker, A treatise on Japanning, cost £18, in archival envelope.
Bindings
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection A687: contemporary marbled paper over blue wrappers, later ties, blue cloth book box, red morocco title label on cover.
Provenance
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection A687: From the John Evan Bedford Library, gifted in 2019. Twenty-first-century pictorial bookplate on front pastedown: John Evan Bedford. Former reference: ORJ/3. Bookseller's[?] label in book box: Landsbergs Bokhandel. Pencil notes on inside front in John Bedford's hand referring to watermarks.
Access and usage
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