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Total number of records: 85

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Books and printed items61
Archives24

Count of Collection group

Collection groupCount
Brotherton Collection35
Herbert Read Collection23
Maurice de Sausmarez Archive12
Novello Cowden Clarke Collection11
John Evan Bedford Library of Furniture History4
Art and Antique Market2
LGBTQ2
Leeds Russian Archive2

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
design85
decorative arts13
time9
decoration and ornament7
industrial design7
letter writing6
railway transport6
architecture5
art education5
students5

Top 10: Place

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Great Britain9
London, United Kingdom6
Leeds, United Kingdom4
England2
Germany2
Bedford, United Kingdom1
Europe1
France1
Genoa, Italy1
Grossbritannien1

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)30
Council of Industrial Design (Great Britain)3
De Sausmarez, Maurice (1915-1969)3
Victoria and Albert Museum3
Amsterdam (Netherlands)2
Amsterdam (Netherlands). Stedelijk Museum2
Atterbury, Paul2
Carrington, Noel2
Dresser, Christopher2
Drexler, Arthur2

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From 180015
From 190063
From 20005

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Up to 189914
Up to 199964
Up to latest5

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NOVELLO, (Joseph) Alfred

1824-1896

Financial documents relating to Novello & Co. and (Joseph) Alfred Novello's investments in shipping and railways, business contracts, designs for the 'Novello Skimmer' sculling boat, sketches and desi...

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Margaret and Ashley Havinden to Maurice de Sausmarez

c. 1950

Two undated printed Christmas cards from advertisers and graphic designers Margaret and Ashley Havinden to Maurice de Sausmarez.

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Designs

1862-1883

Designs for the 'Novello Skimmer' sculling boat alongside a number of sketches and designs for a 24 hour clock face by (Joseph) Alfred Novello dating from around 1883. He argued that the increase in r...

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Heads of lectures, on the polite arts

Fitzgerald, Francis

1784

"Miscellanies" has separate pagination and signatures.

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Design history, fad or function?

Design Council

1978

Includes bibliographical references. The historian, the critic and the designer / James Holland -- From a lipstick to a steamship / Penny Sparke -- Steamlined expresses of the LNER 1935-39 / Alan Sel...

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Pierre Chareau : architecte meublier, 1883-1950

Vellay, Marc; Chareau, Pierre

[1986]

"Bibliographie sommaire": page 111.

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A.W.N. Pugin : master of Gothic revival

Pugin, Augustus Welby Northmore (1812-1852); Aldrich, Megan Brewster; Atterbury, Paul; Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019); Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts

[1995]

Catalogue published in conjunction with the exhibition held at the Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts from November 9, 1995 to February 25, 1996. Includes bibliographical refere...

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English and American textiles : from 1790 to the present

Schoeser, Mary; Rufey, Celia; Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)

1989

Includes bibliography (pages 247-250), and index.

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High Victorian design

Jervis, Simon; Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)

1983

Includes bibliographical references (page 6) and index.

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Industrial design and the future

Holme, C Geoffrey (1887-1954); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)

1934

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Plans for the 'Novello Skimmer' sculling boat

c. 1874

Undated plans for the 'Novello Skimmer' sculling boat with views of the side, top and cross section, with notes on scale and dimensions on the bottom right hand side.

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