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John Harris (1931-)

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Name: John Harris

Date of birth: 1931

Source of information: Special Collections

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Bedford Collection A227: English decorative ironwork from contemporary source books, 1610-1836 : a collection of drawings and pattern books including : A new booke of drawings by John Tijou, 1693; A new book of iron work by J. Jores, 1756 ; The smith's right hand by W. & J. Welldon, 1765 ; Ornamental iron work by I. & J. Taylor, c. 1795 ; A book of designs by J. Bottomley, 1793 ; etc

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Bedford Collection A580: The builder's magazine, and complete architectural library for architects, surveyors, carpenters, masons, bricklayers, &c. : As well as for every gentleman who would wish to be a competent judge of the elegant and necessary art of building. Consisting of designs in architecture, in every stile and taste, from the most magnificent and superb structures, down to the most simple and unadorned. Together with the plans, sections, and elevations, serving as an unerring assistant in the construction of any building, from a palace to a cottage. In which will be introduced, grand and elegant designs for chimney-pieces, ceilings, doors, windows, &c. proper for halls, saloons, vestibules, state rooms, dining rooms, parlours, drawing rooms, anti rooms, dressing rooms, bed rooms, &c. Together with designs for churches, hospitals, and other public buildings. Also plans, elevations, and sections, in the Greek, Roman, and Gothic taste, calculated to embellish parks, gardens, forests, woods, canals, mounts, vistos, islands, extensive views, &c. Exclusive of the new and elegant designs, ample instructions are given in the letter-press concerning all the terms of art used in every branch of building. Also, under proper heads, the laws for the regulation of buildings-the substance of the Builders Act, &c.-and a list of the prices allowed by the most eminent surveyors in London to the several artificers concerned in building. The whole forming a complete system of architecture in all its branches, and so disposed as to render the surveyor, carpenter, bricklayer, mason, &c. equally capable to erect a cathedral, a mansion, a temple, or a rural cot.... Embellished with upwards of three hundred elegant quarto and folio engravings. By a Society of Architects, each having undertaken the department in which he particularly excels. Revised, corrected, and superintended, by Andrew George Cook, architect and builder

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Bedford Collection A580: The builder's magazine, and complete architectural library for architects, surveyors, carpenters, masons, bricklayers, &c. : As well as for every gentleman who would wish to be a competent judge of the elegant and necessary art of building. Consisting of designs in architecture, in every stile and taste, from the most magnificent and superb structures, down to the most simple and unadorned. Together with the plans, sections, and elevations, serving as an unerring assistant in the construction of any building, from a palace to a cottage. In which will be introduced, grand and elegant designs for chimney-pieces, ceilings, doors, windows, &c. proper for halls, saloons, vestibules, state rooms, dining rooms, parlours, drawing rooms, anti rooms, dressing rooms, bed rooms, &c. Together with designs for churches, hospitals, and other public buildings. Also plans, elevations, and sections, in the Greek, Roman, and Gothic taste, calculated to embellish parks, gardens, forests, woods, canals, mounts, vistos, islands, extensive views, &c. Exclusive of the new and elegant designs, ample instructions are given in the letter-press concerning all the terms of art used in every branch of building. Also, under proper heads, the laws for the regulation of buildings-the substance of the Builders Act, &c.-and a list of the prices allowed by the most eminent surveyors in London to the several artificers concerned in building. The whole forming a complete system of architecture in all its branches, and so disposed as to render the surveyor, carpenter, bricklayer, mason, &c. equally capable to erect a cathedral, a mansion, a temple, or a rural cot.... Embellished with upwards of three hundred elegant quarto and folio engravings. By a Society of Architects, each having undertaken the department in which he particularly excels. Revised, corrected, and superintended, by Andrew George Cook, architect and builder

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Bedford Collection B306: An analytical inquiry into the principles of taste

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Bedford Collection B307: Essays on the nature and principles of taste

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Bedford Collection B307: Essays on the nature and principles of taste

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Bedford Collection D011: The architect and the British country house, 1620-1920

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Bedford Collection D013: The King's Arcadia : Inigo Jones and the Stuart court : a quatercentenary exhibition held at the Banqueting House, Whitehall, from July 12th to September 2nd, 1973

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Bedford Collection D036: The Palladian revival : Lord Burlington, his villa and garden at Chiswick

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Bedford Collection D041: Sir William Chambers : Knight of the Polar Star

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Bedford Collection D053: Buckingham Palace

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Bedford Collection D057: Sir William Chambers : architect to George III

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Bedford Collection D086: Georgian country houses

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Bedford Collection D117: A passion for building : the amateur architect in England, 1650-1850 : an exhibition

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Bedford Collection D276: The artist and the country house : a history of country house and garden view painting in Britain 1540-1870

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Bedford Collection D312: The artist and the country house : from the fifteenth century to the present day

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Bedford Collection D392: Lost houses of the West Riding

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Bedford Collection D393: Moving rooms

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Bedford Collection D395: Lost houses of Scotland

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Bedford Collection D418: Headfort House & Robert Adam : drawings from the collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon

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