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Total number of records: 24

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furniture design24
furniture17
draperies10
seating (furniture)8
upholstery5
cabinetwork3
decoration and ornament, architectural3
furniture, neoclassical2
architect-designed furniture1
architectural woodwork1

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Germany3
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Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)24
Furstenberg Princely Court Household [Library], Donaueschingen, Germany8
Godel, Vilhelm (1864-1941)8
Guilmard, DéSiré (1810-1889)8
Taylor, John (1829-)3
Androuet Du Cerceau, Jacques (1511-1586)1
Braess, G W1
Brettell, T1
Cramer, J B (1771-1858)1
Dunnes, John1

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Up to 19991

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Household furniture in genteel taste for the year 1760. by a society of upholsterers, cabinet-makers, &c. Containing upwards of 180 designs on 60 copper plates.... with scales

Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019); Dunnes, John

[1760?]

With an engraved titlepage and [60] leaves of plates, incorporating over 180 designs for furniture. Four leaves of plates are signed J Couse. Below imprint: Price 6s. Sewed, bound 7s. 3d. Indexe...

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The upholsterer's pocket collection of fashionable designs

King, T (fl.1820-1850); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)

nd [c.1850?]

Printed by George Taylor, 7, Little James Street, Gray's Inn Lane, London.

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Album für complette Zimmer-Einrichtungen und Möbel jeder Art (oversize)

Wanderer, Friedrich Wilhelm (1840-1910); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)

[c.1895]

A trade catalogue for Hinne & Co, Berlin (perhaps) of wooden and upholstered furniture, mirrors etc arranged by rooms. Punch hole numbers on leaves. Final page has marble and wood colour examples/samp...

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An entire new series of cabinet and upholstery designs : intended to embrace every variety of elegant and useful furniture, suited to the palace of cottage, including various stiles of Grecian, Gothic, Lewis XIV, &c (In 3 parts)

Smith, George (1786-1826); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019); Sharp, William (1803-1875); OHMA Art[?] Department[?]

[19th century]

In three parts [of 21 designs]. Bedford Collection copy A590 part 2 has 4 plates watermarked 1835, and part 3 has leaves watermarked 1835 or 1836.

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Album de dessins de meubles, table à coulisses (dite Bouillotte), table à coulisses anglaise, plans de billards, d'escaliers &c. : representant un grand nombre de figures, avec principes d'exécution : ouvrage entièrement neuf et de la plus grande utilité. : Dédié A.M.M. les menuisiers, ébenistes at aux Amis des Arts (oversize)

Lefèvre-Chauveaux, Alphonse (1789-); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019); Hoën, J Bernard

1843

Bedford Collection K053 has 42 leaves of plates, including 7 folded, plus a title plate and portrait of A Lefèvre-Chauveaux, lithographed by Chatenet Angouleme. The [42] lithographed plates consist a...

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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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Designs for household furniture, exhibiting a variety of elegant and useful patterns, in the cabinet, chair, and upholstery branches : on eighty four plates (oversize)

Sheraton, Thomas (1751-1806); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)

1812

In the Bedford Collection copy K063, plates are watermarked 1810. The BAL [British Architectural Library] copy plates are also watermarked 1810. Most copies are dated 1812, although the BAL copy may b...

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Gothic furniture; consisting of twenty-seven coloured engravings, from designs by A. Pugin. With descriptive letter-press

Pugin, Augustus Charles (1762-1832); Pugin, Augustus Charles (1762-1832); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019); Hunter, Frederic Coleman (1864-); Stewart, John

[1836?]

The 27 leaves of plates, dated between 1825 and 1827, were published by R. Ackermann, 96 Strand [from Repository of Arts]. Date of publication suggested by the Patent Office Library.

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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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