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The fashionable fire place, 1660-1840
Gilbert, Christopher; Wells-Cole, Anthony; Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019); Temple Newsam House
1985
Exhibition held at Temple Newsam House.
Variety of Capitals, freezes, and corniches, and how to increase or decrease them, still retaining the same proportion as the original: likewise 12 designs for chimney pieces, drawn an inch and a half to a foot, the whole consisting of 12 plates, published according to act of parliament in the year 1776 by P. Columbani (oversize)
Columbani, Placido; Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)
1776
Engraved throughout. Price six shillings.
The British architect: or, the builder's treasury of stair-cases. Containing, I. An easier, more intelligible, and expeditious Method of drawing the Five Orders, than has hitherto been published, by a Scale of Twelve equal Parts, free from those troublesome Divisions call'd Aliquot Parts. Shewing also how to giue up their Columns and Capitals. II. Likewise Stair-Cases, (those most useful, ornamental, and necessary Parts of a Building, though never before sufficiently described in any Book, Ancient or Modern); shewing their most convenient Situation, and the Form of their Ascending in the most grand Manner: With a great Variety of curious Ornaments, whereby any Gentleman may fix on what will suit him best, there being Examples of all Kinds; and necessary Directions for such Persons as are unacquainted with that Branch. III. Designs of Arches, Doors, and Windows. IV. A great Variety of New and Curious Chimney-Pieces, in the most elegant and modern Taste. V. Corbels, Shields, and other beautiful Decorations. VI. Several useful and necessary Rules of Carpentry; with the Manner of Truss'd Roofs, and the Nature of a splay'd circular Soffit, both in a streight and circular Wall, never published before. Together with Raking Cornices, Groins, and Angle Brackets, described. The Whole being illustrated with upwards of One Hundred Designs and Examples, curiously engraved by the best Hands on Sixty Folio Copper-Plates. By Abraham Swan, Architect (oversize)
Swan, Abraham; Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019); Sainsbury, Montagu Ely (1905-1998?)
M.DCC.LVIII. [1758]
In some copies the names of Meadows and Hitch and Hawes have been erased and replaced in ink with Mr. Brotherton and Mr. Buckland. Bedford Collection K086 has imprint with Mr. Brotherton and Mr. Buc...
Some designs of Mr. Inigo Jones and Mr. Wm. Kent
Jones, Inigo (1573-1652); Kent, William (1685-1748); Vardy, John (1718-1765); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019); Shafto, Robert; Adair, William; Johnson, Francis
1744
Title within ornamental border. Engraved throughout by John Vardy. Edited by William Kent.
Some designs of Mr. Inigo Jones and Mr. Wm. Kent (oversize)
Jones, Inigo (1573-1652); Kent, William (1685-1748); Vardy, John (1718-1765); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019); Shafto, Robert; Adair, William; Johnson, Francis
1744
Title within ornamental border. Engraved throughout by John Vardy. Edited by William Kent.