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Collection of designs for household furniture and interior decoration, in the most approved and elegant taste; : viz., curtains; draperies; beds; cornices; chairs and sofas for parlors, libraries, drawing rooms &c.; library fauteuils; seats; ottomans; chaises longue; tables for libraries, writing, work, dressing &c.; sideboards; celerets; bookcases; screens; candelabri; chiffoniers; commodes; pier tables; wardrobes; pedestals; glasses; mirrors; lamps; jardiniers; &c.: with various designs for rooms, geometrical and in perspective, shewing the decorations, adjustment of the furniture, &c. : also some general observations and a description of each plate. Engraved on 158 plates, from original drawings
Smith, George (1786-1826); Taylor, J (1761-1834); Gosnell, Samuel (1799-1827 [active]); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019); Japp, James; Cowieson, L J [?]; Beecham, George
[1808]
Printed by S. Gosnell, Little Queen Street. on verso of title page.
Collection of designs for household furniture and interior decoration, in the most approved and elegant taste; : viz., curtains; draperies; beds; cornices; chairs and sofas for parlors, libraries, drawing rooms &c.; library fauteuils; seats; ottomans; chaises longue; tables for libraries, writing, work, dressing &c.; sideboards; celerets; bookcases; screens; candelabri; chiffoniers; commodes; pier tables; wardrobes; pedestals; glasses; mirrors; lamps; jardiniers; &c.: with various designs for rooms, geometrical and in perspective, shewing the decorations, adjustment of the furniture, &c. : also some general observations and a description of each plate. Engraved on 158 plates, from original drawings
Smith, George (1786-1826); Taylor, J (1761-1834); Gosnell, Samuel (1799-1827 [active]); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019); Japp, James; Cowieson, L J [?]; Beecham, George
[1808]
Printed by S. Gosnell, Little Queen Street. on verso of title page.
Exemplars of Tudor architecture, adapted to modern habitations : with illustrative details, selected from ancient edifices; and observations on the furniture of the Tudor period
Hunt, T F; Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)
M.DCCC.XLI. [1841]
Reprint. Originally published: London : Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1830. The etched plates retain the original imprint, with date 1829. Collation: [A]⁴ B-2C⁴ [$1 signed]; 104 leaves,...
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...
Old English lustre ware
Bedford, John (1907-); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)
[1965]
Introduction -- 1. Early days of lustre -- 2. The lustre families -- 3. Lustre decoration -- 4. Things made in lustre ware -- 5. Round the lustre ware centres: A. Staffordshire -- B. Sunderland -- C. ...
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...
London interiors: / a grand national exhibition of the religious, regal, and civic solemnities, public amusements, scientific meetings, and commercial scenes of the British capital; beautifully engraved on steel, from drawings made expressly for this work, by command of Her Majesty and with the permission of the proprietors and trustees of the metropolitan edifices. With descriptions written by official authorities
Shepherd, Thomas H (1793-1864); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)
[1841-1844]
Date of publication from British Library. Added engraved title page to vol. 1. This has the imprint : "London. Published for the proprietors by J. Mead..., William Ball ... ; A Paris : Chez M.M. Aub...
The london directory for the year 1782. Containing an alphabetical list of the names and places of abode of the merchants and principal traders of the cities of London and Westminster, the Borough of Southwark, and their Environs, with the Number affixed to each House. Also Separate Lists of the Lord Mayor and Court of Alderman, Bank, South-Sea, East-India, Royal Exchange Assurance, Sun Fire, Union, Hand in Hand, and London Assurance Directors; to which are added, a correct List of all the Bankers of London, and a particular Account of Public Stocks
Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)
MDCCLXXXII. [1782]
Price from imprint: Price One Shilling sewed. (To be continued Annually.) Signatures: a4, b2, A-Z4, Aa2 First item in a bound volume of 2 items.
The works in architecture of Robert and James Adam... = Les ouvrages d'architecture de Robert et Jaques Adam ... [etc.] (oversize)
Adam, Robert (1728-1792); Adam, James (1732-1794); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019); Villiers, Victor Albert George Child (1845-1915)
1778-79
English and French. Leeds University Library copy at folio Architecture B-0.1 ADA is incomplete, only 2 parts. Contents are: Number I: Containing part of the designs of Sion House, a magnificent sea...
Rural architecture in the Chinese taste, being designs entirely new for the decoration of gardens, parks, forrests, insides of houses, &c. on sixty copper plates with full instructions for workmen also a near estimate of the charge and hints where proper to be erected the whole invented & drawn by Willm. &Inn. halfpnny, architects. The 3d. edition. With the addition of 4 plates in quarto of roofs for Chinese & Indian temples, the manner of fixing their ornaments, covering and carrying off the water, their cornices with the several members adjusted to regular proportion
Halfpenny, William (1755); Halfpenny, John; Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019); Palmer, LS
1755
In four parts, each with separate titlepage, each differently titled. The general titlepage and the titlepage to part 1 are engraved. Part 1 is by William Halfpenny alone. Another "third edition...
Tapestry fire screen design
c.1840
19th century watercolour design for floral tapestry fire screen and frame with manuscript ink note 'A. This drawing & B (below) represent a pair of finely worked tapestry fire screens. The work is und...
Album of eighteenth-century plates of ornamental designs for trophies, shields, vases, print rooms etc
Vivares, François and others (1709-1780); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019); Charpentier, Francois-Phillipe? (1734-1817); Angier, Paul (1725-1757); Benoist, Antoine (1721-1770?); Le Pautre, Jean (1618-1682); Delafosse, Jean Baptiste? (1721-1806); Eisen, Charles-Doinique-Joseph (1720-1778); Darly, Matthew (1721-1780); Le Romain, Jacques Dumont (1701-1781); Edwards, George (1694-1773); Peyrotte, Alexis (1699-1769); Brunetti, Gaetano? (1758); Babel, Pierre Edme (1775); Nilson, Johann Esaias (1721-1788); Hemerick; Sympson, Samuel (1751); Vivares, Thomas (1744-1783)
[approximately 1754-1798]
Title supplied by cataloguer. Album or scrapbook containing eighteenth-century ornamental plates.