Birmingham trade catalogue for Timothy Smith of brass handles, escutcheons, hinges
Details
Type of record: Book
Title: Birmingham trade catalogue for Timothy Smith of brass handles, escutcheons, hinges
Classmark: Bedford Collection C417
Additional creator(s): Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019) (Former owner); Smith, Timothy (Former owner); Timothy Smith, Brassfounders (Birmingham, England) (Creator); Sammlung Sutter Samedan (Former owner)
Publisher: [publisher not identified]
Publication city: [Birmingham?]
Date(s): [1778?]
Language: English
Size and medium: 107 numbered leaves of plates
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/740033
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991020003995905181
Description
The plates are numbered until 101.
Title supplied by cataloguer.
Features
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection C417: two loose notes in John Bedford's hand identifying Timothy Smith (and Sons) brassfounders at various addresses in Birmingham from c.1777-1823, and collating the plates.
Bindings
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection C417: contemporary quarter calf, red paste paper [Germanic?] over boards [worn].
Provenance
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection C417: From the John Evan Bedford Library, gifted in 2019. Twenty-first-century pictorial bookplate on front pastedown: John Evan Bedford. Former reference: TC/M/38. MS. inscription on front pastedown in Italian: Libro di mostre [book of samples or exhibition book] de SRS [sirs?] Timothy Smith figlio [son], e Smitte di Bermingham [i.e. Smith of Birmingham, brassfounders]. Libro di mostre de SR Timotthy Smitte figlio & Smitte di Bermingham @ 8 Mazio [March] 1778. Black ink stamp on front pastedown: Sammlung [Collection] Sutter Samedan A [Sutter Collection in possibly Samedan, Switzerland?].
Access and usage
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