The works in architecture of Robert and James Adam... = Les ouvrages d'architecture de Robert et Jaques Adam ... [etc.] (oversize)
Details
Type of record: Book
Title: The works in architecture of Robert and James Adam... = Les ouvrages d'architecture de Robert et Jaques Adam ... [etc.] (oversize)
Other titles: Ouvrages d'architecture de Robert et Jaques Adam... [etc.]; Les ouvrages d'architecture de Robert et Jaques Adam... [etc.]
Classmark: Bedford Collection K013
Creator(s): Adam, Robert (1728-1792)
Additional creator(s): Adam, James (1732-1794) (Other); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019) (Former owner); Villiers, Victor Albert George Child (1845-1915) (Former owner)
Related people: Adam, Robert, 1728-1792
Publisher: Printed for the authors and sold by Peter Elmsly, opposite Southampton Street in the Strand and by the other booksellers in town and country
Publication city: London
Date(s): 1778-79
Language: English
Size and medium: 2 volumes in 1
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/741057
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991008177059705181
Description
English and French.
Leeds University Library copy at folio Architecture B-0.1 ADA is incomplete, only 2 parts. Contents are: Number I: Containing part of the designs of Sion House, a magnificent seat of his grace the Duke of Northumberland, in the county of Middlesex -- Number two: Containing part of the designs of Lord Mansfield's villa at Kenwood, in the county of Middlesex.
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection K013: is complete, 2 volumes in 1. Volume 1 published in 1778 [1773-1778 in parts] and volume 2 in 1779.
Published in parts from 1773, each part with separate titlepage; the titlepages to vol. 1 parts 1-4 have the imprint "London: printed for the authors; and sold by T. Becket, and the other booksellers in town and country". A third volume was published in 1822.
Indexed in: ESTC
Features
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection K013: loose excerpt from Sims Reed sale catalogue for this item, no. 5.
Bindings
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection K013: contemporary full calf, blind and gold tooled, marbled endpapers, title label: Adams's Architecture.
Leeds University Library copy at folio Architecture B-0.1 ADA: nineteenth-century marbled paper over boards, MS title label on front cover.
Provenance
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection K013: From the John Evan Bedford Library, gifted in 2019. Twenty-first-century pictorial bookplate on front pastedown: John Evan Bedford. Former reference: Ao/11. Nineteenth-century armorial bookplate on front pastedown: Victor Albert George Child Villers Earl of Jersey Middleton Park [i.e. Victor Albert George Child Villers (1845-1915), 7th Earl of Jersey, banker and British politician, Middleton Park, Oxfordshire].
Access and usage
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