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Total number of records: 1510

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Books and printed items1487
Textiles18
Archives5

Top 10: Collection group

Collection groupCount
Leeds Russian Archive45
Liddle Collection33
Brotherton Collection29
John Evan Bedford Library of Furniture History21
International Textile Collection18
Art and Antique Market6
LGBTQ6
Gypsy, Traveller and Roma Collections5
Maurice de Sausmarez Archive4
English Literature3

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SubjectCount
courts and courtiers110
travel63
furniture45
manners and customs36
politics and government36
decoration and ornament34
war32
world war, 1914-191831
cooking, french22
furniture design21

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France1510
Paris (France)146
Great Britain39
Europe27
England19
Belgium15
Versailles (France)11
Paris10
Germany9
United States9

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Pencheon, James Michael (1924-1982)510
Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)104
Lenotre, G (1855-1935)63
Marie Antoinette, Queen, Consort of Louis XVI, King of France, 1755-179358
Petitot, Claude Bernard52
Petitot, Claude Bernard (1772-1825)52
Louis XVI, King of France, 1754-179343
Dallas, Robert Charles (1754-1824)29
Maintenon, Madame De, 1635-171927
Bertrand-De-Molleville, Ant.-Fr (1744-1818)25

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From 160012
From 1700346
From 1800479
From 1900600
From 200022

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Up to 169911
Up to 1799330
Up to 1899457
Up to 1999632
Up to latest30

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[Collection of promotional leaflets]

De Sausmarez, Maurice (1915-1969); Publications filmées d'art et d'histoire

[1960-1964?]

Title supplied by cataloguer.

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Textile

Collection Homo [pattern book]

Chanay & Pupat (1926)

late 19th-early 20th Century

Hardback with mottled black covers and white spine. Book no. 1. Contains woven fabric samples in varied colours and patterns includes brocades and gauze. Samples unnumbered

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The collection of John Boyd Thacher in the Library of Congress (v.2)

Thacher, John Boyd (1847-1909); Ashley, Frederick William (1863-1942); Bourne, Henry Eldridge (1862-); Shiley, Annie Laurie (1881-); Library of Congress. John Boyd Thacher Collection

1931

The first volume is a reissue, with added title and preface, of the volume published in 1915 with title: Catalogue of the John Boyd Thacher collection of incunabula. Compilers: v. 1, F.W. Ashley; v....

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The collection of John Boyd Thacher in the Library of Congress (v.3)

Thacher, John Boyd (1847-1909); Ashley, Frederick William (1863-1942); Bourne, Henry Eldridge (1862-); Shiley, Annie Laurie (1881-); Library of Congress. John Boyd Thacher Collection

1931

The first volume is a reissue, with added title and preface, of the volume published in 1915 with title: Catalogue of the John Boyd Thacher collection of incunabula. Compilers: v. 1, F.W. Ashley; v....

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T. Notes from Bataillard's "Gypsy Collection."

c.1910

Handwritten notes from [Paul] "Bataillard’s papers in the Public Reference Library Manchester, " Contents of box 397.449 described and partly transcribed (French).

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Collection de meubles et objets de goût (oversize, vol 1)

La Mésangère, Pierre de (1761-1831); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)

[approximately 1802-34]

Bibliothèque nationale, Paris. Estampes: Fonds français après 1800, XII, 342, no. 4 (755 plates)//Berlin. Staatliche Kunstbibliothek. Kat. der Ornamentstichsammlung, 1274 (699 plates). Vols. 1-3 ...

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Collection de meubles et objets de goût (oversize, vol 2)

La Mésangère, Pierre de (1761-1831); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)

[approximately 1802-34]

Bibliothèque nationale, Paris. Estampes: Fonds français après 1800, XII, 342, no. 4 (755 plates)//Berlin. Staatliche Kunstbibliothek. Kat. der Ornamentstichsammlung, 1274 (699 plates). Vols. 1-3 ...

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Collection de meubles et objets de goût (oversize, vol 4)

La Mésangère, Pierre de (1761-1831); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)

[approximately 1802-34]

Bibliothèque nationale, Paris. Estampes: Fonds français après 1800, XII, 342, no. 4 (755 plates)//Berlin. Staatliche Kunstbibliothek. Kat. der Ornamentstichsammlung, 1274 (699 plates). Vols. 1-3 ...

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Collection de meubles et objets de goût (oversize, vol 3)

La Mésangère, Pierre de (1761-1831); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)

[approximately 1802-34]

Bibliothèque nationale, Paris. Estampes: Fonds français après 1800, XII, 342, no. 4 (755 plates)//Berlin. Staatliche Kunstbibliothek. Kat. der Ornamentstichsammlung, 1274 (699 plates). Vols. 1-3 ...

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Donald Kenrick Collection (Papers of the National Gypsy Council)

c.1963- c.1971

Papers (mainly relating to the establishment and work of the Gypsy Council) and print items referencing Gypsies, Travellers and Roma as deposited by Donald Kenrick.

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The ornamental designs of Watteau : collected from his works and lithographed (oversize)

Watteau, Antoine (1684-1721); Nichol, William; Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019); Ackermann & Co

MDCCCXLI [1841]

Lithographed throughout. Titlepage tinted, and printed in gold and colours; portrait frontispiece and preliminary leaf addressed to the Graces both tinted. Numbering of plates and leaves very irre...

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