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The chair-maker's guide; Being upwards of two hundred new and genteel designs, both decorative and plain, of all the most approved patterns for gothic, chinese, ribbon and other chairs, couches, settees, burjairs, french, dressing and corner stools, adapted for halls, lobbies, dining, drewing and dressing rooms, parlours, bed-chambers, summer-houses, seats for gardens, parks, woods, &c. Many of the rural kind may be excuted with rude branches, or limbs of trees, &c. By Robert Manwaring, cabinet-maker, and others. The whole neatly engraved on seventy-five copper-plates
Manwaring, Robert; Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019); Constable, William (1721-91)
MDCCLXVI. [1766]
Titlepage in letterpress. Bedford Collection A083 is incomplete: a single copy of plate 69, summer house chair only. Indexed in: Christopher Gilbert, Furniture History Society Journal,
The cabinet and chair-maker's real friend and companion, or, the whole system of chair-making made plain and easy
Manwaring, Robert; Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)
1765
Indexed in: ESTC
Six new designs of chairs
Smith, John (1750-1789); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019); Phillips of London
1753
The Bedford Collection copy A083 has five loose plates, unnumbered and untitled, including title page. The sixth loose plate is titled plate number 69, a summer house chair, and is from Robert Sayer's...
Marmor Pisanum de Honore Bisellii. Parergon inseritur de vetrum sellis, synopsis appenditur de re donatica antiquorum, quam breui spondet
Chimentelli, Valerio (1620-1668); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)
MDCLXVI. [1666]
With a half-title. Signatures: [unsigned]4 A-2L4. Head- and tail-pieces; initials. Includes index.
The cabinet-maker and upholsterer's guide; or, repository of designs for every article of household furniture, in the newest and most approved taste: displaying a great variety of patterns for Chairs Stools Sofas Confidante Duchesse Side Boards Pedestals and Vases Cellerets Knife-Cases Desk and Book-Cases Secretary and Book-Cases Library Cases Library Tables Reading Desks Chests of Drawers Urn Stands Tea Caddies Tea Trays Card Tables Pier Tables Pembroke Tables Tambour Tables Dressing Glasses Dressing Tables and Drawers Commodes Rudd's Table Bidets Night Tables Bason Stands Wardrobes Pot Cupboards Brackets Hanging Shelves Fire Screens Beds Field Beds Sweep Tops for Ditto Bed Pillars Candle Stands Lamps Pier Glasses Terms for Busts Cornices for Library Cases, Wardrobes, &c. at large Ornamented Tops for Pier Tables, Pembroke Tables, Commodes, &c. &c. In the plainest and most enriched styles; with a scale to each, and an explanation in letter press. Also the plan of a room, shewing the proper distribution of the furniture. The whole exhibiting near three hundred different designs, engraved on one hundred and twenty-seven plates. From drawings by A. Heppelwhite and Co. Cabinet-Makers
Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019); A. Hepplewhite and Co
M DCC LXXXIX. [1789]
With four pages of advertisements bound at beginning. With index. Bedford Collection copy A610 has 2 pages of advertisements bound at the end: A catalogue of modern books on architecture, &c., I a...
The cabinet-Maker and upholsterer's guide; or, repository of designs for every article of household furniture, in the newest and most approved taste: displaying a great variety of patterns for Chairs Stools Sofas Confidante Duchesse Side Boards Pedestals and Vases Cellerets Knife-Cases Desk and Book-Cases Secretary and Book-Cases Library Cases Library Tables Reading Desks Chests of Drawers Urn Stands Tea Caddies Tea Trays Card Tables Pier Tables Pembroke Tables Tambour Tables Dressing Glasses Dressing Tables and Drawers Commodes Rudd's Table Bidets Night Tables Bason Stands Wardrobes Pot Cupboards Brackets Hanging Shelves Fire Screens Beds Field Beds Sweep Tops for Ditto Bed Pillars Candle Stands Lamps Pier Glasses Terms for Busts Cornices for Library Cases, Wardrobes, &c. at large Ornamented Tops for Pier Tables, Pembroke Tables, Commodes, &c. &c. In the plainest and most enriched styles; with a scale to each, and an explanation in letter press. Also the plan of a room, shewing the proper distribution of the furniture. The whole exhibiting near three hundred different designs, engraved on one hundred and twenty-eight plates: from drawings by A. Hepplewhite and Co. Cabinet-Makers
Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019); A. Hepplewhite and Co
MDCCXCIV. [1794]
128 plates: 125 numbered plates, plus three plates are numbered 9*, 40*, and 78*. Braces in imprint. Bedford Collection copy A611 has 4 numbered pages of advertisements bound at the end: A catalog...