Box of loose printed single sheets comprising plates of furniture and ornamental designs from a variety of publishers (12 items)
Details
Type of record: Book
Title: Box of loose printed single sheets comprising plates of furniture and ornamental designs from a variety of publishers (12 items)
Classmark: Bedford Collection A915
Additional creator(s): Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019) (Former owner); Le Pautre, Jean (1618-1682) (Engraver); Huet, Jean-Baptiste (1745-1811) (Engraver); Faber, John (1695?-1756) (Engraver); Göz, Gottfried Bernhard (1708-1774) (Engraver); Cramer, J B (1771-1858) (Other); Wyman & Sons (Printer); Marsh, Jones & Cribb (Leeds) (Cabinet-makers); Laurie & Whittle (Publisher)
Publisher: [publisher not identified]
Publication city: London; Augsburg ; Paris
Date(s): between 1650 and 1899
Language: English
Size and medium: 12 loose leaves and plates
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/774160
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991020079897405181
Collection group(s): John Evan Bedford Library of Furniture History
Description
A box of 12 loose printed single sheets including plates of furniture, architectural designs, portraits, a cover for sheet music, some of which are taken from publications.
Title supplied by cataloguer.
1. Loose printed blue wrapper for Number XI of Principal seats of the nobility and gentry, in Great Britain and Wales, in a collection of select views -- 2. Single engraved plate by GB Göz, 18th century [Augsburg A V] of neoclassical funerary monument -- 3. Single engraved plate by Le Potre [Le Pautre] and Schenck of a funerary monument, 17th century -- 4. Single engraved plate from a book of ornament by JB Huet dated 1783, engraved by Demarteau, printed in red, VIIIe cahier, plate 5 -- 5. Annotated printed leaf from a 19th century trade directory about Staithes and its principal residents, traders, folded and post marked Saltburn by the Sea, 1876? penny red stamp, to D La[?...] Hinderwell [in Yorkshire] -- 6. Four leaves of 19th century colour lithograph designs for shanks by J. Lockwood, Lith. Sheffield -- 7. Printed portrait of Sir John Blundell Maple, 1st baronet (1845-1903), owner of Maple & Co, furniture makers, taken from The Man of the World 1889 -- 8. Single sheet engraving of 11 designs of cottages, Ornaments for Tonbridge Ware &c, published Jan. 2 1809 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London, hand-coloured -- 9. Colour lithographed cover depicting a gambling salon[?] for sheet music Die letzten Glucksstunden [the last hours of happiness] eine Walzer-Serie fur Pianoforte von Keler Bela, London, J. B. Cramer & Co 201 Regent Street -- 10. Portrait of George Stepney Esq &c, after G. Kneller Bar. P [Sir Godfrey Kneller] and engraved by I Faber [John Faber (1695?-1756)], 1733 -- 11. Lithograph of table and chairs in a room, Marsh Jones Cribb & Co Leeds [furniture makers], Dec 1899 -- 12. Lithograph Original design for sideboard from The Furniture Gazette, February 26, 1876, Wyman & Sons, Lith. London.
Features
Bindings
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection A915: modern light grey archival box.
Provenance
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection A915: From the John Evan Bedford Library, gifted in 2019. Twenty-first-century pictorial bookplate on inside box lid: John Evan Bedford. Former reference: item 2. Göz ORo/80; item 3. Le potre ORo/81; item 6. J. Lockwood, Lith. Sheffield TC/M/131(4). MS. inscription in pencil on item 11: From R S Pannett Whitby.
Access and usage
Access
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