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Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)34
Alembert, Jean Le Rond D' (1717-1783)5
Benard, Robert5
Diderot, Denis (1713-1784)5
Henry Sotheran Ltd.5
Panckoucke, Charles Joseph (1736-1798)5
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Taylor, John (1829-)3
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The practical cabinet maker's design book

Thomson, H; Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)

[1855?]

Date on spine of blue book box: c.1870. Singled sided photocopied reproduction housed in blue book box.

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The Cabinet-maker's assistant: a series of original designs for modern furniture, with descriptions and details of construction. Preceded by practical observations on the materials and manufacture of cabinet-work, and instructions in drawing adapted to the trade (A)

Thomson, P; Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)

1853

Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection C035: added title page, engraved, has title: The cabinet maker's assistant. Original designs for furniture (copy B).

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The Cabinet-maker's assistant: a series of original designs for modern furniture, with descriptions and details of construction. Preceded by practical observations on the materials and manufacture of cabinet-work, and instructions in drawing adapted to the trade (B)

Thomson, P; Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)

1853

Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection C035: added title page, engraved, has title: The cabinet maker's assistant. Original designs for furniture (copy B).

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The upholsterer's and cabinet maker's pocket assistant : being a collection of designs for fashionable upholstery and cabinet work, on one hundred plates, coloured (Vol 2)

Taylor, John (fl. 1821-1829); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019); Taylor, John (fl. 1821-1829)

[1822?,1825?-1828?]

Each vol. has separate title page and 50 plates. Each plate hand coloured. Vol. I Upholstery work -- Vol. II Cabinet work. Bedford Collection copy G028, Vol 1 complete, plate 12 has watermark: J...

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The upholsterer's and cabinet maker's pocket assistant : being a collection of designs for fashionable upholstery and cabinet work, on one hundred plates, coloured (Vol 1)

Taylor, John (fl. 1821-1829); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019); Taylor, John (fl. 1821-1829)

[1822?,1825?-1828?]

Each vol. has separate title page and 50 plates. Each plate hand coloured. Vol. I Upholstery work -- Vol. II Cabinet work. Bedford Collection copy G028, Vol 1 complete, plate 12 has watermark: J...

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The upholsterer's and cabinet maker's pocket assistant : being a collection of designs for fashionable upholstery and cabinet work, on one hundred plates, coloured (Vol 2)

Taylor, John (fl. 1821-1829); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019); Taylor, John (fl. 1821-1829)

[1822?,1825?-1828?]

Each vol. has separate title page and 50 plates. Each plate hand coloured. Vol. I Upholstery work -- Vol. II Cabinet work. Bedford Collection copy G028, Vol 1 complete, plate 12 has watermark: J...

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The cabinet-makers' Manchester book of prices

Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019); Manchester Cabinet Makers. Committee

1810

Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection A171 contains 32 plates, 2 different plates numbered 1, 2 and 18, plus engraved frontispiece. Between pages 316-351 are 30 numbered tables. First i...

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The cabinet makers sketch book : a series of original details for modern furniture (B)

Thomson, Peter (1871); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)

[1853?]

Engraved title page and dedicatory page designed by author.

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The cabinet makers sketch book : a series of original details for modern furniture (A)

Thomson, Peter (1871); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)

[1853?]

Engraved title page and dedicatory page designed by author.

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The cabinet dictionary, : containing an explanation of all the terms used in the cabinet, chair & upholstery branches; with directions for varnish-making, polishing, and gilding. To which is added a supplementary treatise on geometrical lines, perspective, and painting in general. The whole illustrated on eighty-eight handsomely-engraved copper-plates, including a very great variety of the most fashionable pieces of cabinet furniture, and the five orders of architecture in perspective

Sheraton, Thomas (1751-1806); Barlow, J (1759-1810); Caldwall, James (1739-1819); Jones, Maurice (Publisher); Mathews, J (1774-1814); Row, W (1839); Smith, William (1799-1844); Warner, J; Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019); Pesman, FA; Westwood, M; Vernor and Hood

1803

A list of most of the master cabinetmakers, upholsterers, and chair makers, in and about London, for 1803, printed by W. Smith, King Street, Seven Dials: at pages 435-440. 87 engr. plates (many fold...

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[Designs for furniture]

Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019); Vallance, Keith; J Whatman, Kent

[1828?]

Pattern book of 65 hand coloured undated plates of furniture designs, watermarked J Whatman [i.e. paper makers, Kent]. Two interleaves dated 1828 and 1 dated 1825.

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