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Designs for household furniture, exhibiting a variety of elegant and useful patterns, in the cabinet, chair, and upholstery branches : on eighty four plates (oversize)

Archive Print Item: Bedford Collection K063

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Type of record: Book

Title: Designs for household furniture, exhibiting a variety of elegant and useful patterns, in the cabinet, chair, and upholstery branches : on eighty four plates (oversize)

Level: Item

Classmark: Bedford Collection K063

Creator(s): Sheraton, Thomas (1751-1806)

Additional creator(s): Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019) (Former owner)

Related people: Sheraton, Thomas, 1751-1806; Sheraton, Thomas, 1751-1806

Publisher: Published by J. Taylor, At the Architectural Library, No. 59, High Holborn

Publication city: London

Date(s): 1812

Language: English

Size and medium: 12 pages, 84 leaves of plates

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/744861

Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991020029496805181

Description

In the Bedford Collection copy K063, plates are watermarked 1810. The BAL [British Architectural Library] copy plates are also watermarked 1810. Most copies are dated 1812, although the BAL copy may be dated 1811 (see BAL record for notes about this copy). The plates were originally published in The cabinet dictionary (1803) and The cabinet-maker, upholsterer, and general artist's encyclopaedia (1804-1807). The imprint of William Stratford on verso of title page and page 12: Stratford, Printer, Crown Court, Temple Bar.


Signature: A² B-C². [6 leaves]


Copy of 4 page printed A catalogue of modern books on architecture,... constantly on sale at J. Taylor's Archiectural Library, No. 59, High Holborn bound in at the end of the plates.


Designs by Sheraton, engraved by J Barlow, J Caldwall, Warner, H. B. Cook, T Busby.

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Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection K063: contemporary blue and white paper over boards with printed spine label: Sheraton Furniture 84 plates, 8l. 13s. 6d. Boards.

Provenance

Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection K063: From the John Evan Bedford Library, gifted in 2019. Twenty-first-century pictorial bookplate on front pastedown: John Evan Bedford. Former reference: FEo/22. MS. annotation on front pastedown in John Bedford's hand about plates watermarked 1810. MS. annotation in ink on front pastedown, possible early shelfmark: D. 10. 521.

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