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The ladies amusement, or, Whole art of japanning made easy : illustrated in upwards of fifteen-hundred different designs on two hundred copper plates (oversize)

Archive Print Item: Bedford Collection K065

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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

Level: Item

Classmark: Bedford Collection K065

Additional creator(s): Pillement, Jean (1728-1808) (Other); Sayer, Robert (1725-1794) (Other); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019) (Former owner)

Publisher: Ceramic Book Company

Publication city: Newport, England

Date(s): 1966

Language: English

Size and medium: [4], 6 pages, 200 leaves of plates

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/743575

Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991020026697605181

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'"--Page [1], 1st sequence.

Reprinted from a copy of the 2nd edition [in colour] in the possession of Mrs. Robert D. Chellis, of Boston, Mass.--Cf. p. [3], 1st sequence.

Printed by Harding and Curtis Ltd, Bath, England. Imprint Newport - Mon - England.

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Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection K065: orange cloth publisher's binding, gold tooled on spine and cover: The Ladies Amusement Robert Sayer 1762.

Provenance

Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection K065: From the John Evan Bedford Library, gifted in 2019. Twenty-first-century pictorial bookplate on front pastedown: John Evan Bedford. Former reference: ORJ/4.

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