Le guide du fabricant de meubles et du décorateur album de sièges, contenant une grande collection de modèles variés (oversize)
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Type of record: Book
Title: Le guide du fabricant de meubles et du décorateur album de sièges, contenant une grande collection de modèles variés (oversize)
Other titles: [An album of furniture designs by M Jansen, Désiré Guilmard and Victor Quetin]; Contains plates from Le garde-meuble ancien et moderne; Contains plates from Album de sièges no 6 moyenne grandeur
Classmark: Bedford Collection K128
Creator(s): Jansen, M
Additional creator(s): Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019) (Former owner); Guilmard, Désiré (1810-1889) (Designer); Quétin, Victor (Other); Coste Frères, Montpellier (Former owner)
Publisher: M. Jansen, Boulevart Beaumarchais, No 10, près la Place de la Bastille, Ci-devant rue de la Contrescarpe St Antoine No 70
Publication city: Paris
Date(s): [1840-1850]
Language: French
Size and medium: 68 leaves of plates
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/746915
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991020075997605181
Description
Bedford Collection K128 is a pattern book comprising plates of furniture designs from several other publications by Jansen, Guilmard and Quetin.
1. Le guide du fabricant de meubles et du décorateur, album de sièges, by M. Jansen, 20 plates numbered 21 to 40 -- 2. Le guide du fabricant de meubles et du décorateur by Victor Quetin, 4 plates numbered 14, 15,18, 19 -- 3. Six plates of 5 chair designs numbered 1 to 30 by M. Jansen -- 4. Two colour lithographed plates pasted on verso of other plates from Le garde-meuble ancien et moderne by D Guilmard, plate no. 536 from issue 92 and plate 545 from issue 93 -- 5. Five plates of 4 chair designs numbered 5-8 and 13-28 by M Jansen, after designs by A Jeanselme [see Album de sièges no 6 moyenne grandeur by Jansen for plates 25-28, Bedford Collection G065] -- 6. Le garde-meuble ancien et moderne collection de sièges by D Guilmard, 23 black and white plates from issues raging from 5 to 116, plate nos. ranging from 19 to 679 -- 7. L'ameublement et l'utile - collection simple, 10 plates from issues ranging from 88 to 101, some plates numbered sieges no... [possibly from Le carnet de
l'ebeniste Parisien by Guilmard].
Features
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection K128: loose excerpt from sale catalogue for this item; loose note in John Bedford's hands identifying the plates in this furniture pattern book; loose [torn out piece] faint note in pencil, possibly 19th C hand.
Bindings
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection K128: contemporary brown paper over boards, quarter brown morocco, gold tooled on spine: album de sièges.
Provenance
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection K128: From the John Evan Bedford Library, gifted in 2019. Twenty-first-century pictorial bookplate on front pastedown: John Evan Bedford. Former reference: FFo/44. MS. inscription on front flyleaf and title page, and on verso of several plates: Jaujon [?]. MS. rough sketches (some pasted in), pentrials and annotations on certain plates. Several faint purple ink stamps on verso of final plate: Coste Frères Sculpteurs-De[?...] 28 Mars 1899 Montpellier.
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