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Total number of records: 93

Count of Record type

Record typeCount
Books and printed items69
Archives24

Count of Collection group

Collection groupCount
Brotherton Collection42
Herbert Read Collection30
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
design93
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
Hochschule Fur Gestaltung (Ulm, Germany)8
De Sausmarez, Maurice (1915-1969)4
Council of Industrial Design (Great Britain)3
Victoria and Albert Museum3
Amsterdam (Netherlands)2
Amsterdam (Netherlands). Stedelijk Museum2
Atterbury, Paul2
Carrington, Noel2
Dresser, Christopher2

Count of Earliest date

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From 17002
From 180015
From 190063
From 20005

Count of Latest date

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Up to 17992
Up to 189914
Up to 199964
Up to latest5

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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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Heads of lectures, on the polite arts

Fitzgerald, Francis

1784

"Miscellanies" has separate pagination and signatures.

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A Letter concerning the Art or Science of Design, written from Italy, on the occasion of the Judgement of Hercules, To My Lord...[sic], by Anthony Ashley Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury

Shaftesbury, Anthony Ashley Cooper (1671-1713)

c.1713-1733

The title appears on p.1 with motto from Virgil; headed, p.3, "A Letter concerning Design"; "signed", p.23, from Naples, March 6, N.S., 1712, as"Shaftsbury".

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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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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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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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Sketches towards a design for a 24 hour clock face

c. 1883

Six sketches on one sheet of folded paper towards a design for a 24 hour clock face, by (Joseph) Alfred Novello.

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Circular on the 24 hour clock

Aug 1862

Printed circular by (Joseph) Alfred Novello titled '24 o'clock; a distinct name for each hour of the day', arguing for benefits for the railways and postal service and reduction in printing costs. The...

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Circular on the 'Novello-craft'

Apr 1859

Photocopy of a printed circular by (Joseph) Alfred Novello titled 'Novello-craft; a proposed methodfor the accomplishing of great speed in journeying over water', in which he describes a design that c...

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Design for a 24 hour clock face for a turret or railway station

c. 1883

Design for a 24 hour clock face for a turret or railway station by (Joseph) Alfred Novello, with notes in purple ink above and below. The reverse of the card on which the design is drawn is printed in...

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