Twenty new designs of Chinese lattice and other works, for stair-cases, gates, palings, hatches, &c. on six folio copper plates, with full instructions annex'd to the several divisions, scantlings &c. Thereby making the whole easy to workmen of every capacity. Published according to Act of Parliament, December 16, 1750 (oversize)
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Type of record: Book
Title: Twenty new designs of Chinese lattice and other works, for stair-cases, gates, palings, hatches, &c. on six folio copper plates, with full instructions annex'd to the several divisions, scantlings &c. Thereby making the whole easy to workmen of every capacity. Published according to Act of Parliament, December 16, 1750 (oversize)
Other titles: [Designs for gates and paling in the Chinese style]
Classmark: Bedford Collection K022
Creator(s): Halfpenny, William (1755)
Additional creator(s): Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019) (Former owner); Sayer, Robert (1725-1794) (Bookseller)
Publisher: printed for R. Sayer opposite Fetter Lane, Fleet Street & J. Brindley in New Bond Street
Publication city: London
Date(s): 1750
Language: English
Size and medium: 6 numbered leaves of plates
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/739199
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991020002597405181
Description
Title is taken from John Bedford's annotation on front pastedown referring to a contemporary advertisement for Brindley and Sayer in Andrea Palladio's First Book of Architecture (1751) by Halfpenny. No title page is known.
Plates designed by Wm Halfpenny and engraved by Parr. Bedford Collection copy K022 has only 6 plates, unlike the copy at Avery, Columbia, which lists 9 plates. Bedford copy does not include designs for Chinese lattice or pavements.
Indexed in: Archer,
Features
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection K022: excerpt from sale catalogue for this item pasted into front flyleaf.
Bindings
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection K022: modern boards, blue cloth spine.
Provenance
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection K022: From the John Evan Bedford Library, gifted in 2019. Twenty-first-century pictorial bookplate on front pastedown: John Evan Bedford. Former reference: ARo/5. MS. annotation in John Bedford's hand on front pastedown about the title.
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