Le garde-meuble ancien et moderne (oversize, vol 8)

Description

Title taken from plate[s] in volume 1.


Le garde meuble was bi-monthly [every two months?] periodical designed and published by Désiré Guilmard in Paris, starting in 1839. Each bi-monthly edition was assigned a volume number or livraison and each individual plate numbered sequentially within the set. Each edition had 9 originally loose plates [lithographs] comprising: 3 of sieges [seating], 3 of meubles [furniture i.e. cabinets], and 3 of tentures [draperies] i.e. 54 plates annually. The plates were available to purchase in black & white or hand-coloured by category i.e. tentures only or including all categories. See Cynthia Van Allen Schaffner, Le garde-meuble ancien et moderne 1839-1935, Snithsonian.


Vol 1 & 2 have imprint D Guilmard, rue de Bondy, 66 Porte St Martin; Vol 3 from 46 Livraison tentures has imprint publie par D Guilmard et Bordeux, rue de Bondy, 46, entrée r de Lancry, 2, Paris; Vol 4 from Livraison 63 has imprint publie par D Guilmard et Bordeaux, rue de Lancry, 2 - Paris.


Bedford Collection copy A638: 2 vols of plates without letterpress, Livraison nos 1 to 62 c.1839-1849. Vol 1 consists of 170 plates from Collection de meubles and 1 plate from Collection de tentures; vol. 2 consists of 205 plates from Collection de sièges, and Collection de tentures.


Bedford Collection copy K071: Vols 3 to 8 of mostly colour plates. Vol 3 is a folder of loose plates Livraison nos 1-20, 22 to 52, 146 mostly colour plates, all tentures except 2 meubles [21 Livraison, plate no 111 and 112, also plan d'un apartment 29 Livraison, and plate Ornemens pours velours, del Guilamard, Lith Rigo, de la fabrique de M Bordeaux, rue St Sauveur, 12, Paris], c.1842-1847, title label has date 18 Novembre 1848; Vol 4 is oblong folio 27 x 36cm, Livraison nos 63 to 103, 122 colour plates, all tentures, c.1849-1856; Vol 5 oblong folio 27 x 36cm, Livraison nos 171 to 204, 97 colour plates, all tentures c.1867-1872; Vol 6 oblong folio 27 x 36cm, Livraison nos 204 to 237, 96 colour plates, all tentures, c. 1872-1878; Vol 7 oblong folio 26.5 x 36cm, Livraison 219-236, 54 colour plates, all tentures, c.1875-1878; Vol 8 oblong folio 26.5 x 36cm, Livraison 201-218, 56 colour plates, all sieges. Duplicate plates, for example, in vol 6 and vol 7, are sometimes tinted in different
colours.

Features

Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection A638: 2 loose hand-coloured prints [leaves] of shelves, 1 pencil drawing of a library bookcase, hand coloured with pencil sketch on verso, 3 numbered sketches of chairs and seats [1 with title in French].


Bindings


Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection A638: nineteenth-century green marbled paper over boards, green velvet spine.


Bedford Collection copy K071: Vol 3 contemporary folder, cloth spine, marbled paper over boards, green and white ties, printed title label on front cover and circular label on spine: III E f 5. Vols 4-6 are contemporary half green morocco, green embossed paper over boards, gold tooled on spine: collection de tentures colorie, orange marbled or brown marbled endpapers; Vols 7-8 are quarter green morocco, green embossed cloth, pink marbled endpapers, paper label on front cover [worn] on vol 7, gold tooled on front cover of vol 8: [illegible] Tapissier [i.e. upholster] Bruges, gold tooled on both spines: le garde meuble.

Provenance

Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection A638: From the John Evan Bedford Library, gifted in 2019. Twenty-first-century pictorial bookplate on front pastedown: John Evan Bedford. Former reference: FFO/36. MS. inscription on pastedown: Eingebunden den 10 Mai 1870 Godel Schlossverwalter [i.e. Bound on 10 May 1870 Godel (surname of official), castle custodian]. MS. label on front cover of volume 1: Mobelzeichnungen, für die fürstl Fürstendb. Hofhaltung. Donaueschingen 1870 [Furniture designs for the Fürstenberg princely court household, Donaueschingen, Germany].


Bedford Collection copy K071 (Vol 3): From the John Evan Bedford Library, gifted in 2019. Twenty-first-century pictorial bookplate on front pastedown: John Evan Bedford. Former reference: FFo/22. Faint black inkstamp on title label on front cover: F. F. Bibliothek Donaueschinge [i.e. Fürstenberg princely court household library, Donaueschingen, Germany]. Vol 4-6 Former reference: FFO/68, MS rough sketches in pencil on verso of several plates towards the end of the volume and MS annotations in pencil on verso of final plate [possibly orders?.... galerie?]. Vols 7-8 Former reference: FFO/68

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