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The practical decorator and ornamentist : for the use of architects, practical painters, decorators, and designers : containing one hundred plates in colours and gold : with descriptive notices, and an introductory essay on artistic and practical decoration

Archive Print Item: Bedford Collection G167

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Type of record: Book

Title: The practical decorator and ornamentist : for the use of architects, practical painters, decorators, and designers : containing one hundred plates in colours and gold : with descriptive notices, and an introductory essay on artistic and practical decoration

Level: Item

Classmark: Bedford Collection G167

Additional creator(s): Audsley, George Ashdown (1838-1925) (Designer); Audsley, Maurice Ashdown (Designer); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019) (Former owner)

Publisher: Blackie & Son

Publication city: Glasgow

Date(s): [1892]

Language: English

Size and medium: 15 volumes

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/741205

Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991020013687305181

Description

" Published for subscribers only" -- cover.


Volumes consist of paper folders with loose leaf plates within.

Features

Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection G167: contains 2 loose printouts of bookseller's information.


Bindings


Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection G167: modern green cloth book box.

Provenance

Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection G167: From the John Evan Bedford Library, gifted in 2019. Twenty-first-century pictorial bookplate on front pastedown: John Evan Bedford. Former reference: ORJ/11.

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