British and Irish inventories : a list and bibliography of published transcriptions of secular inventories
Details
Type of record: Book
Title: British and Irish inventories : a list and bibliography of published transcriptions of secular inventories
Classmark: Bedford Collection C356
Creator(s): Jervis, Simon
Additional creator(s): Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019) (Former owner)
Publisher: Furniture History Society
Publication city: Leeds
Date(s): 2010
Language: English
Size and medium: ix, 465 pages
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/737710
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991019990693105181
Description
Includes bibliographical references (pages 333-465) and indexes.
This volume is a work of reference intended to cover all transcriptions of British and Irish secular inventories published from 1721 to 2009. The volume lists more than 12,300 transcriptions, ordered first by date and then by location within county, with references to a substantial bibliography of more than 900 entries. In addition, there are extensive indexes of names, locations, trades, professions, titles and institutions. The inventories in the list range from 1278 to 1864, with a preponderance in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and are mainly English, though numerous Scottish, Welsh and Irish examples, and a smattering from the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man, are also included. They throw light on the furnishings and artefacts used in the grandest palaces and in the humblest of peasant dwellings, and include the odd Masonic lodge, college and livery company.
Features
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection C356: Contains 1 loose item: Farm and cottage inventorries of mid-Essex, 1635-1749 [review] (The Connoisseur, Oct. 1950)
Provenance
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection C356: From the John Evan Bedford Library, gifted in 2019. Twenty-first-century pictorial bookplate on front pastedown: John Evan Bedford. Former reference: V/7.
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