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The practical book of furnishing the small house and apartment

Archive Print Item: Bedford Collection A778

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Type of record: Book

Title: The practical book of furnishing the small house and apartment

Level: Item

Classmark: Bedford Collection A778

Creator(s): Holloway, Edward Stratton

Additional creator(s): Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019) (Former owner)

Publisher: J.B. Lippincott Co

Publication city: Philadelphia : London

Date(s): 1922

Language: English

Size and medium: 296 pages

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/739160

Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991020002487705181

Description

Aids to decision upon method of furnishing -- Colour -- Form -- The advantages and characteristics of the style -- The simplest and most inexpensive furnishing -- Particulars and materials applicable to any scale of furnishing -- Modern furnishing of medium cost -- The highest development of modern furnishing -- Liberal period furnishing -- The first and second movements: the Renaissance and Baroque -- The third movement: Rococo decoration together with the Dutch influence in England -- The fourth and final movement: the Neo-Classic influence -- Colour-schemes adaptable to various styles of decoration -- Special subjects.

Provenance

Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection A778: From the John Evan Bedford Library, gifted in 2019. Twenty-first-century pictorial bookplate on front pastedown: John Evan Bedford. Former reference: FEG/93.

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