Designs of Chinese buildings, furniture, dresses, machines, and utensils. Engraved by the best hands, from the originals drawn in China by Mr. Chambers, architect,... To which is annexed, a description of their temples, houses, gardens, &c (oversize)
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Type of record: Book
Title: Designs of Chinese buildings, furniture, dresses, machines, and utensils. Engraved by the best hands, from the originals drawn in China by Mr. Chambers, architect,... To which is annexed, a description of their temples, houses, gardens, &c (oversize)
Classmark: Bedford Collection K003
Creator(s): Chambers, Sir William (1723-1796)
Additional creator(s): Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019) (Former owner)
Publisher: published for the author, and sold by him next door to Tom's Coffee-house: also by Mess. Dodsley; Mess. Wilson and Durham ; Mr. A. Millar, and Mr. R. Willock
Publication city: London
Date(s): 1757
Language: English
Size and medium: [10],19,[1]p.,XXI plates
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/737703
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991019977494705181
Description
With a list of subscribers.
The ornaments are those used by John Haberkorn, who is named as printer in the imprint of the French version, 'Desseins des edifices... des Chinois, ...', London, 1757.
Plates engraved by P Fourdrinier, I Fougeron, C Grignion, and P Sandby.
Indexed in: ESTC
Features
Bindings
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection K003: contemporary half calf, marbled paper ovr boards, gold tooled on spine.
Provenance
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection K003: From the John Evan Bedford Library, gifted in 2019. Twenty-first-century pictorial bookplate on front pastedown: John Evan Bedford. Former reference: FEo/18.
Access and usage
Access
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