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Etchings, representing the best examples of ancient ornamental architecture : drawn from the originals in Rome, and other parts of Italy, during the years 1794, 1795, and 1796 (oversize)

Archive Print Item: Bedford Collection K062

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Type of record: Book

Title: Etchings, representing the best examples of ancient ornamental architecture : drawn from the originals in Rome, and other parts of Italy, during the years 1794, 1795, and 1796 (oversize)

Level: Item

Classmark: Bedford Collection K062

Additional creator(s): Tatham, Charles Heathcote (1772-1842) (Creator); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019) (Former owner); Harris, John (1931-) (Former owner); Stone, Reynolds (1909-1979) (Engraver)

Publisher: Printed for Thomas Gardiner, bookseller, Princes Street, Cavendish Square, by John Barfield, Wardour Street, printer to His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales

Publication city: London

Date(s): 1803

Language: English

Size and medium: 12 pages, 102 plates

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/743546

Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991020025094005181

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

Description

With a list of subscribers and author's preface dated 1799. Plates dated 1798 onwards.

Bound with: 2. Etchings, representing fragments of antique Grecian and Roman architectural ornament / Charles Tatham. London: Gardiner and Barfield,1806; 3. Designs for ornamental plates. / Charles Tatham. London: Gardiner and Barfield,1806; 4. The picture gallery, Brocklesbury, Lincolnshire. / Charles Tatham. London: Gardiner, and Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, Barfield, 1811; 5. The gallery & museum, Castle Howard / Charles Tatham. London: Gardiner, and Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, Barfield, 1811.

First item in a bound volume of 4 items.

Features

Bindings

Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection K062: contemporary full calf, gold tooled on covers, re-backed, gold tooled on spine, green marbled endpapers, decorated [marbled] fore-edge.

Provenance

Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection K062: From the John Evan Bedford Library, gifted in 2019. Twenty-first-century pictorial bookplate on front pastedown: John Evan Bedford. Former reference: ORo/35. Twentieth-century armorial pictorial bookplate on front pastedown [by wood engraver Alan Reynolds Stone (1909-1979)]: John Harris [i.e. John Harris (b. 1931-), curator and architectural historian].

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