The ladies amusement, or, Whole art of japanning made easy : illustrated in upwards of fifteen-hundred different designs on two hundred copper plates (oversize)
Details
Type of record: Book
Title: The ladies amusement, or, Whole art of japanning made easy : illustrated in upwards of fifteen-hundred different designs on two hundred copper plates (oversize)
Other titles: Whole art of japanning made easy
Classmark: Bedford Collection K066
Additional creator(s): Pillement, Jean (1728-1808) (Other); Sayer, Robert (1725-1794) (Other); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019) (Former owner)
Publisher: [publisher not identified]
Publication city: [Place of publication not identified]
Date(s): [2000?]
Language: English
Size and medium: 6 pages, 200 leaves of plates
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/743574
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991020026697305181
Collection group(s): John Evan Bedford Library of Furniture History
Description
Facsimile reprint. Originally published: 2nd ed. London : Robert Sayer, [1762?].
Reprinted from the only surviving perfect copy of The Ladies amusement, 1762.
Reprinted from a copy of the 2nd edition [in colour] in the possession of John Bedford and formerly Mrs. Robert D. Chellis, of Boston, Massachusetts.
John Bedford had his copy of The ladies amusement 1762 digitally reproduced in colour, perhaps in 2000s.
Features
Bindings
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection K066 (another copy): orange cloth binding, gold tooled on spine and cover: The Ladies Amusement Robert Sayer 1762, cream dust wrapper.
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection K067: orange cloth binding, gold tooled on spine and cover: The Ladies Amusement Robert Sayer 1762, cream dust wrapper with sample written on it in pencil.
Provenance
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection K066 and K067 (another copy): From the John Evan Bedford Library, gifted in 2019. Twenty-first-century pictorial bookplate on front pastedown: John Evan Bedford. No former reference given.
Access and usage
Access
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