Oeuvres diverses : contenant un grand nombre de dessins pour la décoration intérieure des appartemens, à l'usage de la peinture et de la sculpture (oversize, vol 1)
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Type of record: Book
Title: Oeuvres diverses : contenant un grand nombre de dessins pour la décoration intérieure des appartemens, à l'usage de la peinture et de la sculpture (oversize, vol 1)
Classmark: Bedford Collection K096
Creator(s): Lalonde, Richard de (1735-1808)
Additional creator(s): Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019) (Former owner); Verchère, J (Bookseller)
Publisher: Chereau
Publication city: Paris
Date(s): [approximately 1780-1796]
Language: French
Size and medium: 3 volumes, 376 leaves of plates
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/746349
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991020064491405181
Collection group(s): John Evan Bedford Library of Furniture History
Description
Bedford Collection copy K096 vol 1 comprises 144 plates [of 156 or 26 cahiers each of 6 plates] including 6 plates from Nouveau cahier de pieds de tables avec ornemens et trophies. Photocopies of missing plates are bound in and some of the original plates are re-mounted. Plates engraved by Foin, Le Meunie, De St Morien, Hubert, Delagardette, Fay and others. Vol 2 comprises 109 plates and vol 3 comprises 117 plates.
Certain plates with booksellers'[?] ink stamps in vol 2: RM and vol 3: Auteur & Editeur J. Verchère 10. Place de la Bastille.
Indexed in: Berlin Kat
Indexed in: Guilmard, Les Maîtres Ornemanistes,
Features
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection K096: excerpt from sale catalogue for this item, no. 230, pasted onto front flyleaf.
Bindings
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection K096: nineteenth-century quarter dark blue morocco, blue marbled endpapers, gilt fore-edges, gold tooled on spine.
Provenance
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection K096: From the John Evan Bedford Library, gifted in 2019. Twenty-first-century pictorial bookplate on front pastedown: John Evan Bedford. Former reference: FFo/7 (3 vols). MS. annotations [bookseller's] on front flyleaves collating the plates.
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