Nouvelle iconologie historique ou attributs hierogliphyques... composés et arrangés de maniére qu'ils peuvent servir à toutes sortes des decorations (oversize, vol 1)
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Type of record: Book
Title: Nouvelle iconologie historique ou attributs hierogliphyques... composés et arrangés de maniére qu'ils peuvent servir à toutes sortes des decorations (oversize, vol 1)
Classmark: Bedford Collection K097
Creator(s): Delafosse, Jean-Charles (1734-1789)
Additional creator(s): Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019) (Former owner); International Gypsylogical Foundation (Other)
Publisher: Chez Jacques François Chereau fils, graveur et marchand d'estampes, rue St Jacques près les mathurins
Publication city: Paris
Date(s): 1771
Language: French
Size and medium: 3 parts, 410 plates
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/777076
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991020064491005181
Collection group(s): John Evan Bedford Library of Furniture History
Description
Bedford Collection K097 copy comprises: vol 1 table indicative [title plate], 108 plates in 18 cahiers lettered A to S each with 6 plates; vol 2 has table indicative, T- Z each with 6 plates, then AA to MM each with 6 plates, NN to TT each with 5 plates, UU with supplementary 6 plates of trophies divers; then further suites of trophies: 1st cahier has 6 plates, 2nd cahier with 6 plates [one red], 3rd cahier 5 plates [1 red, missing plate 3], 4 cahier with 6 plates; second suites of trophies designed by Janinet comprising 1st cahier 2 plates, 2nd cahier 2 plates and 3rd cahier has 4 plates, all printed in red; vol 3`
First published in 1768, it was issued with an engraved title page (copied for the 1771 edition with a number of minor variations) giving the 'l'Auteur... M. Menan ... et ... De Laiai' as booksellers and Maillet as the printer.
Indexed in: RIBA drawings catalogue,
Indexed in: Guilmard,
Indexed in: Berlin Cat,
Features
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection K097: loose excerpt from sale catalogue for this item; two loose notes in John Bedford's hand collating the plates in the 3 volumes.
Bindings
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection K097: contemporary mottled calf, re-backed, gold tooled on spine [original spine retained], covers and turn-ins, red marbled endpapers, gilt fore-edges.
Provenance
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection K097: From the John Evan Bedford Library, gifted in 2019. Twenty-first-century pictorial bookplate on front pastedown: John Evan Bedford. Former reference: FFo/46 (3 vols). Faint MS. annotation on table indicative of vol 2: Collection [?] 141 [....].
Access and usage
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