Œuvre de Jacques Androuet dit du Cerceau
Details
Type of record: Book
Title: Œuvre de Jacques Androuet dit du Cerceau
Classmark: Bedford Collection K033
Creator(s): Androuet du Cerceau, Jacques (1549-1584)
Additional creator(s): Baldus, Edouard (1813-1889) (Engraver); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019) (Former owner)
Publisher: E. Baldus, Rue d'Assas, 17
Publication city: Paris
Date(s): [18--]
Language: French
Size and medium: 4 volumes in 1
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/741211
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991020011497405181
Collection group(s): John Evan Bedford Library of Furniture History
Description
[Pt. 1]: [36] leaves of plates; [pt. 2]: [63] leaves of plates ; [pt. 3]: [21] leaves of plates ; [pt. 4]: [52] leaves of plates.
Each part has special engraved title page.
[Pt. 1] 35 grandes arabesques, série complête. -- [pt. 2] 62 petites arabesques, série complête. -- [pt. 3] 20 cheminées, série complête. -- [pt. 4] Meubles.
Bedford Collection K033 copy is only part 3 and 4 in 1 volume.
Publication dates suggested by other library records: 1880-84, also 1869 [for first series?].
Features
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection K033: loose photocopy of an original advertisement bound in with another copy of this book [according to note in John Bedford's hand] has title Oeuvre de Jacques Androuet-Ducerceau, Premiere Serie Meubles, Paris, J.-E Ogier, Editeur, 17, Rue de Seine, 1869. The premiere is crossed out and replaced with 2e [2nd].
Bindings
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection K033: contemporary quarter red morocco, marbled paper over boards, marbled endpapers.
Provenance
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection K033: From the John Evan Bedford Library, gifted in 2019. Twenty-first-century pictorial bookplate on front pastedown: John Evan Bedford. Former reference: FFo/50.
Access and usage
Access
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