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 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.
Features
Bindings
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.
Access and usage
Access
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