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furniture design35
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Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)35
Chippendale, Thomas (1718-1779)5
Chippendale, Thomas, 1718-17794
Lalonde, Richard De (1735-1808)4
Delafosse, Jean-Charles (1734-1789)3
International Gypsylogical Foundation3
Verchere, J3
Beecham, George2
Cowieson, L J [?]2
Decan (1850-)2

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The gentleman and cabinet-maker's director: being a large collection of the most elegant and useful designs of household furniture, in the most fashionable taste. Including a great variety of chairs, sofas, beds, and couches; china-tables, dressing-tables, shaving-tables, bason-stands, and teakettle-stands; frames for marble-slabs, bureau-dressing-tables, and commodes; writing-tables, and library-tables; library-book-cases, organ-cases for private rooms, or churches, desks, and book-cases; dressing and writing-tables with book-cases, toilets, cabinets, and cloaths-presses; china-cases, china-shelves, and book-shelves; candle-stands, terms for busts, stands for china jars, and pedestals; cisterns for water, lanthorns, and chandeliers; fire-screens, brackets, and clock-cases; pier-glasses, and table-frames; girandoles, chimney-pieces, and picture-frames; stove-grates, boarders, frets, chinese-railing, and brass-work, for furniture. And other ornaments. To which is prefixed, A short explanation of the five orders of architecture; with proper directions for executing the most difficult pieces, the mouldings being exhibited at large, and the dimensions of each design specified. The whole comprehended in two hunderd [sic] copper-plates, neatly engraved. Calculated to improve and refine the present taste, and suited to the fancy and circumstances of persons in all degrees of life. By Thomas Chippendale, cabinet-maker and upholsterer, in St. Martin's Lane, London (oversize)

Chippendale, Thomas (1718-1779); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)

MDCCLXII. [1762]

In this issue, the words "chairs, sofas,... for furniture." are laid out in a regular paragraph form. Another issue (ESTC T102007) has this passage laid out in two columns separated by a double rule. ...

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Oeuvres diverses : contenant un grand nombre de dessins pour la décoration intérieure des appartemens, à l'usage de la peinture et de la sculpture (oversize, vol 1)

Lalonde, Richard de (1735-1808); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019); Verchère, J

[approximately 1780-1796]

Bedford Collection copy K096 vol 1 comprises 144 plates [of 156 or 26 cahiers each of 6 plates] including 6 plates from Nouveau cahier de pieds de tables avec ornemens et trophies. Photocopies of miss...

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Oeuvres diverses : contenant un grand nombre de dessins pour la décoration intérieure des appartemens, à l'usage de la peinture et de la sculpture (oversize, vol 2)

Lalonde, Richard de (1735-1808); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019); Verchère, J

[approximately 1780-1796]

Bedford Collection copy K096 vol 1 comprises 144 plates [of 156 or 26 cahiers each of 6 plates] including 6 plates from Nouveau cahier de pieds de tables avec ornemens et trophies. Photocopies of miss...

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Oeuvres diverses : contenant un grand nombre de dessins pour la décoration intérieure des appartemens, à l'usage de la peinture et de la sculpture (oversize, vol 3)

Lalonde, Richard de (1735-1808); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019); Verchère, J

[approximately 1780-1796]

Bedford Collection copy K096 vol 1 comprises 144 plates [of 156 or 26 cahiers each of 6 plates] including 6 plates from Nouveau cahier de pieds de tables avec ornemens et trophies. Photocopies of miss...

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Ideen zur äussern und innern Verzierung der Gebäude, als Anleitung für angehende mechanischen Künstler und Handwerker zur Uebung im Erfinden und Darstellen. Seiner Kaiserlichen Hoheit dem Erzherzog Rainer in tiefster Ehrerbietung zugeeignet von dem Verfasser Georg Pein, Architeckt und der k. k. Akademie der Bildenden Künste Mitglied. Erster Theil mit 36 Kupfertafeln in aquatinta geäzt von Piringer (oversize)

Pein, Georg (1775-1834); Piringer, Benedikt (1780-1826); Vittinghoff, Karl Baron von (1772-1826); Spiegl, Joseph; Rainer, Joseph Archduke of Austria (1783-1853); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)

1809

Plates designed by Georg Pein, architect, and etched by Joseph Spiegl or Karl Vittinghoff and aquatint by Benedict Piringer. Part I only. Plates include furniture, railings, gates, friezes, candelabr...

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Hepplewhite furniture designs : from the Cabinet-maker and upholsterer's guide, 1794

Hepplewhite, George (1786); Edwards, Ralph (1894-1977); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019); A. Hepplewhite and Co.

1947

Selected plates and an abridged version of the descriptive notes from: the Cabinet-maker and upholsterer's guide, 3rd ed., 1794.

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Divers desseins

Androuet Du Cerceau, Jacques (1511-1586); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019); Parker, Richard Timothy George Mansfield 9th Earl of Macclesfield (1943-); Parker, Thomas 1st Earl of Macclefield (1666-1732); Parker, George 2nd Earl of Macclesfield (1697-1764); Parker, Thomas 3rd Earl of Macclefield (1723-1795); Sotheby's (Firm); Robin Halwas

c.1545-1565

66 plates hand numbered 1 to 67, folio 44 numbered on recto 44 and 45 on verso, comprising 73 etched designs for furniture and furnishings. French title taken from spine. Collation: forty-four print...

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Collection für Tischler von List's Möbel-Journal, Wien

Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)

[after 1843]

Bedford Collection G054 copy contains only plates of furniture numbered from 841-912 from the journal, Nr 64 in pencil on front cover, printed mainly by J Haller, Wieden 816 Wien.

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