The rudiments of drawing cabinet and upholstery furniture: : comprising the most explicit instructions for designing and delineating the different articles of those branches geometrically and perspectively; thereby producing the effect each will have when executed: and shewing by a scale the real measures for the workman. Illustrated by appropriate diagrams and designs, proportioned upon architectural principles, after the manner of the antique, on twenty-five plates, each accompanied with explanatory and miscellaneous remarks. The second edition, improved. To which is subjoined an elucidation of the principles of drawing ornaments, exemplified on seven plates
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Type of record: Book
Title: The rudiments of drawing cabinet and upholstery furniture: : comprising the most explicit instructions for designing and delineating the different articles of those branches geometrically and perspectively; thereby producing the effect each will have when executed: and shewing by a scale the real measures for the workman. Illustrated by appropriate diagrams and designs, proportioned upon architectural principles, after the manner of the antique, on twenty-five plates, each accompanied with explanatory and miscellaneous remarks. The second edition, improved. To which is subjoined an elucidation of the principles of drawing ornaments, exemplified on seven plates
Other titles: Elucidation of the principles of drawing ornaments
Classmark: Bedford Collection A592
Creator(s): Brown, Richard (Architect)
Additional creator(s): Smart, R W (Engraver); Taylor, J Sydney (1795-1841) (Bookseller); Gosnell, Samuel (Printer); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019) (Former owner)
Publisher: printed for J. Taylor, at The Architectural Library, 59, High Holborn; printed by S. Gosnell, Little Queen Street
Publication city: London
Date(s): 1822
Language: English
Size and medium: xvi, 87, [1] pages, XXV, VII leaves of plates
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/778801
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991019657148905181
Collection group(s): John Evan Bedford Library of Furniture History
Description
Printer's name from colophon.
Features
Leeds University Library copy at A592: Excerpt from sale catalogue for this item pasted onto front pastedown, no. 667.
Bindings
Leeds University Library copy at A592: contemporary quarter cloth, green paper over boards, printed spine label.
Provenance
Leeds University Library copy at A592: From the John Evan Bedford Library, gifted in 2019. Twenty-first-century pictorial bookplate on front pastedown: John Evan Bedford. Former shelfmark: FEo/29.
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