Specimens of ancient furniture : drawn from existing authorities (oversize)
Details
Type of record: Book
Title: Specimens of ancient furniture : drawn from existing authorities (oversize)
Classmark: Bedford Collection K087
Publisher: William Pickering
Publication city: London
Date(s): 1836
Language: English
Size and medium: [6], 57, [1] p., lxxiv leaves of plates
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/745867
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991020063497405181
Description
Originally published in parts between Apr. 1832 and Dec. 1836.
Added title page, etched and engraved, is plate [i].
Plates ii-lxxiv are engravings, except plate lxx, which is a lithograph: Tankard enamelled on copper, Ducôté and Stephen's Lithography, 70[?] St Martins Lane.
Printed by C. Whittingham, Tooks Court, Chancery Lane.
Indexed in: British Architectural Library. Early printed books, 1478-1840,
Features
Bindings
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection K087: contemporary quarter calf, dark red embossed cloth, dark green/black endpapers.
Provenance
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection K087: From the John Evan Bedford Library, gifted in 2019. Twenty-first-century pictorial bookplate on front pastedown: John Evan Bedford. Former reference: FEo/51. MS. annotation on front flyleaf: £ 4 4 0.
Access and usage
Access
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