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Total number of records: 10106

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Books and printed items5309
Archives4771
Art items23
Objects3

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John Evan Bedford Library of Furniture History5444
Art and Antique Market4791

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furniture1029
art355
decoration and ornament341
meubles326
interior decoration260
architecture250
decorative arts236
booksellers' catalogs182
furniture design180
catalogues de librairies178

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England1390
Great Britain648
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France103
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Europe69
United States35
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Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)5305
Great Britain. Post Office179
Guildhall Library (London, England)172
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Sotheby'S (Firm)133
Furniture History Society (London, England)109
Victoria and Albert Museum74
Bernard Quaritch (Firm)69
Georgian Group (London, England)67
Hugh Pagan Limited65

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British furniture 1820 to 1920 : the luxury market

Payne, Christopher (1948-)

2023

Includes bibliographical references pages 556-563 and index. British Furniture 1820 to 1920 is the first book on the subject for several decades and the only book ever published to span the century ...

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Great Irish households : inventories from the long eighteenth century

Murdoch, T V; Cunningham, Jessica; Campion, Rebecca; Joyce, Edmund; Cobbe, Alec; Adamson, John (1949-)

2022

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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A poetic survey round Birmingham, with a brief description of the different curiosities and manufactories of the place, intended as a guide to strangers

Bisset, James of Birmingham (1762-1832); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019); Bernard Quaritch Ltd

[1800]

Plates engraved by T. Hancock, F. Eginton and others. Half-title: 'Bisset's Poetic survey round Birmingham', with the information that copies with proof plates or coloured copies or copies printed in...

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Birmingham : history and general directory of the borough of Birmingham, with the remainder of the parish of Aston, the Soho and part of Handsworth included: being part of a general history and directory of the County of Warwick.... / by Francis White and Co

Francis White and Company; Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019); Folkes, Homery J; Williams

1849

Title page: Price to subscribers, 9s. in cloth boards, or 11s. in calf binding; Non-subs. 2s. 6d. extra.

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