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Examples of ornamental sculpture in architecture : drawn from the originals of bronze, marble, and terra cot[ta] in Greece, Asia Minor, and Italy (oversize)

Archive Print Item: Bedford Collection K059

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Type of record: Book

Title: Examples of ornamental sculpture in architecture : drawn from the originals of bronze, marble, and terra cot[ta] in Greece, Asia Minor, and Italy (oversize)

Level: Item

Classmark: Bedford Collection K059

Creator(s): Vulliamy, Lewis (1791-1871)

Additional creator(s): Moses, Henry (1782?-1870) (Engraver); Prowett, Septimus (179-?-1867) (Publisher); Jennings, Robert (fl. 1812-1831?) (Publisher); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019) (Former owner); Architectural Library (Publisher); Priestley and Weale (Publisher); Chatfield & Coleman (Printer)

Publisher: Published by Lewis Vulliamy, 132 Regent Street and Henry Moses, 1 Portland Place, Wandsworth Road, and by Septimus Prowett, 269 Strand, Robert Jennings 2 Poultry, I Taylor Architectural Library 59 High Holborn and Priestley and Weale, 5 High Street Bloomsbury

Publication city: London

Date(s): [1823-1827]

Language: English

Size and medium: 40 leaves of plates

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/743379

Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991020023295505181

Collection group(s): John Evan Bedford Library of Furniture History

Description

Engraved title page. Plates drawn by Lewis Vulliamy, architecture, and engraved by Henry Moses. Plates dated 1823 to 1827.

Published serially in eighteen parts between 1823 and 1827. Printed by Chatfield & Coleman.

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Bindings

Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection K059: contemporary quarter red morocco, gold tooled title: Ornamental Sculpture - Vulliamy, red cloth over boards.

Provenance

Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection K059: From the John Evan Bedford Library, gifted in 2019. Twenty-first-century pictorial bookplate on front pastedown: John Evan Bedford. Former reference: ORo/44.

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