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Total number of records: 10

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Books and printed items5
Archives5

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John Evan Bedford Library of Furniture History6
Art and Antique Market5

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aesthetics2
art objects1
decoration and ornament, architectural1
furniture1
furniture design1
private libraries1
retail trade1

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England1
France1

Top 10: People and organisations

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Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)5
Alison, Archibald (1757-1839)2
B. Farringdon2
Benjamin Farringdon2
Cuthbertson, D2
Harris, John (1931-)2
Androuet Du Cerceau, Jacques (1511-1586)1
Ely Family1
Ely, Vernon N1
Parker, George 2nd Earl of Macclesfield (1697-1764)1

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Photographs

c.1960- c.1995

Various black and white and colour photographs and negatives kept by John Bedford with other family and personal papers. Mainly of John Bedford. These include: 1) 6 colour and 2 b/w photographs of...

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Divers desseins

Androuet Du Cerceau, Jacques (1511-1586); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019); Parker, Richard Timothy George Mansfield 9th Earl of Macclesfield (1943-); Parker, Thomas 1st Earl of Macclefield (1666-1732); Parker, George 2nd Earl of Macclesfield (1697-1764); Parker, Thomas 3rd Earl of Macclefield (1723-1795); Sotheby's (Firm); Robin Halwas

c.1545-1565

66 plates hand numbered 1 to 67, folio 44 numbered on recto 44 and 45 on verso, comprising 73 etched designs for furniture and furnishings. French title taken from spine. Collation: forty-four print...

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B. Farringdon promotional material

Benjamin Farringdon

c.1890

Advertising the 'Stanley' range.

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B. Farringdon promotional material

Benjamin Farringdon

c.1890

Advertising the Utilis kitchener and the Camelot portable cooking range.

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James Kimberley, Thomas P. Hawkins and J. B. Sexty promotional material

c.1880

Advertising James Kimberley, ironmonger, Birmingham and his patent flooring cramp, Thomas P. Hawkins, ironmonger, Birmingham, and J. B. Sexty, manufacturer of metallic pens, gilt and plated buttons, B...

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J. B. Anderson & Co. Ltd promotional material

c.1928

Advertising furniture sale including three piece suites, bedsteads, baby carriages, children's cots and parlour suites. Manuscript notes on reverse listing names of people.

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Fifty years - hard : an autobiography

Ely, Vernon N; Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)

[1976]

Cover title: Fifty years - hard : Elys of Wimbledon, the family and the store.

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Essays on the nature and principles of taste (Vol 2)

Alison, Archibald (1757-1839); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019); Cuthbertson, D; Harris, John (1931-)

1825

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Essays on the nature and principles of taste (Vol 1)

Alison, Archibald (1757-1839); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019); Cuthbertson, D; Harris, John (1931-)

1825

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