Le guide du tapissier, de l'ʹebʹeniste, et de tous ceux qui travaillent en meubles; comme aussi celui des honnêtes-gens qui en font faire:... Le tout reprʹesentʹe en 200 planches proprement gravʹees; ... Par Thomas Chippendale (oversize)
Details
Type of record: Book
Title: Le guide du tapissier, de l'ʹebʹeniste, et de tous ceux qui travaillent en meubles; comme aussi celui des honnêtes-gens qui en font faire:... Le tout reprʹesentʹe en 200 planches proprement gravʹees; ... Par Thomas Chippendale (oversize)
Other titles: Gentleman and cabinet-maker's director
Classmark: Bedford Collection K039
Creator(s): Chippendale, Thomas (1718-1779)
Additional creator(s): Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019) (Former owner)
Publisher: chez T. Becket & P. A. de Hondt, dans le Strand
Publication city: Londres
Date(s): 1762
Language: French
Size and medium: [4],23,[1]pages
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/741549
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991020016396605181
Collection group(s): John Evan Bedford Library of Furniture History
Description
Published according to an act of Parliament 1753, 1759, 1760, 1761 1762 etc.
Designed and drawn by Thomas Chippendale, engraved by T Miller, Hemerich, M Darly, C Lowe, I Taylor, B Clowes, W Foster, I S Miller, J Hulett.
The initial pages of text are tipped in.
Indexed in: ESTC
Features
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection K039: Photocopy of letter from Lord Harewood 3 November 2000 thanking John Bedford for the loan of this book and his Chippendale Jnr, Sketches of Ornament for the 2000 Chippendale Exhibition at Harewood House; loose excerpt from Antique Trades Gazette 19/10/2013 about another copy of this item in the Heneage show/sale.
Bindings
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection K039: contemporary half calf, brown paste paper.
Provenance
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection K039: From the John Evan Bedford Library, gifted in 2019. Twenty-first-century pictorial bookplate on front pastedown: John Evan Bedford. Former reference: FEo/4. MS. annotation on title page: Jun No 1810 [?]. MS. annotations on certain plates: 23.
Access and usage
Access
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