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The book of English fireplaces
Kelly, Alison (1913-2016); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)
1968
Traces the development of the English fireplace since Roman times.
Schott's Iron Company's pattern book
Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019); Schott's Iron Company
[no date given]
Trade catalogue.
Fireplaces and grates: metalwork pattern book of fire grates, stoves, railings, and balconies
Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)
[c.1793]
The Bedford Collection copy A104 has 12 plus 72 engraved designs [2 folded] and no watermarked pages. [Printed] for Skidmore. Plate 70 A design for an elegant warming stove by Skidmore, London, draw...
The complete modern joiner, or a collection of original designs in the present taste, for chimney-pieces and door-cases, with their Mouldings and Enrichments at Large; Frizes, Tablets, Ornaments for Pilasters, Bases, Sub-Bases and Cornices for Rooms, &c. With a table shewing the proportion of chimneys with their entablatures, to rooms of any size: by N. Wallis, Architect
Wallis, N A M; Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019); Willatt, William Henry (1868-1942)
[1772]
Plates dated: March 30, 1772. First item in a bound volume of two items. Bound with 2. A book of ornaments. / N. Wallis. London: I Taylor, 1771.
The chimney-piece-maker's daily assistant, or, a treasury of new designs for chimney-pieces, for the year 1769: containing, grand and elegant designs, proper to be executed in halls, salones, vestibules, guard rooms, state rooms, parlours, dining rooms, drawing rooms, anti rooms, music rooms, cabinets, bed rooms, dressing rooms, &c. Together with six plates of mouldings at large, ornamented with curious new enrichments. The whole neatly engraved on 32 copper-plates, from original drawings, by Robert Baldwin, architect. Vol. II
Baldwin, Robert; Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019); Sainsbury, M
1769
Consists largely of plates with a letterpress titlepage and two final advertisement leaves. Bedford Copy A090 [another copy] is first item in a bound volume of 2 items. Bedford Copy A090 [another ...
The chimney-piece-maker's daily assistant, or, a treasury of new designs for chimney-pieces, for the year 1769: containing, grand and elegant designs, proper to be executed in halls, salones, vestibules, guard rooms, state rooms, parlours, dining rooms, drawing rooms, anti rooms, music rooms, cabinets, bed rooms, dressing rooms, &c. Together with six plates of mouldings at large, ornamented with curious new enrichments. The whole neatly engraved on 32 copper-plates, from original drawings, by Robert Baldwin, architect. Vol. II
Baldwin, Robert; Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019); Sainsbury, M
1769
Consists largely of plates with a letterpress titlepage and two final advertisement leaves. Bedford Copy A090 [another copy] is first item in a bound volume of 2 items. Bedford Copy A090 [another ...
Designs for chimney-pieces, : with mouldings & bases at large; on 24 plates (oversize)
Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019); I. and J. Taylor's Architectural Library (London, England)
[1790?]
Imprint date based on record from British Architectural Library catalogue. Consists of 24 numbered engraved plates illustrating designs for mantels. A note on front flyleaf in John Bedford's hand ...
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...
English chimney-pieces : their design and development from the earliest times to the nineteenth century
Rothery, Guy Cadogan (1863-1940); Kocher, A Lawrence; Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)
1927
Designs for chimnies: and the proportions they bear to their respective rooms; Containing more than eighty examples of that kind. Also variety of arches, doors, and windows. To which is added, A concise, but clear Description of the Five Orders, regulated by a Scale of Twelve equal Parts. With some Observations on Rules and Methods used in Drawing. The whole neatly engraved on fifty octavo copper-plates. By Abraham Swan, Architect
Swan, Abraham; Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019); Clegg, David; Beardsall, Henry
[1765]
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