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Chinese whispers : chinoiserie in Britain, 1650-1930
Beevers, David; Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019); Royal Pavilion, Art Gallery, and Museums
2008
"Published... on the occasion of the exhibition ... held at Brighton Museum & Art Gallery and the Royal Pavillion, 3 May-2 November 2008"--Title page verso. Includes bibliographical references and i...
Chinoiserie
Jacobson, Dawn; Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)
1993
Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-234) and index. Ch. 1. Grandeurs and Treasures: The origins of Chinoiserie -- Ch. 2. From Chinese Art to Chinoiserie: China comes to Europe -- Ch. 3. T...
The ladies amusement, or, Whole art of japanning made easy : Illustrated in upwards of fifteen-hundred different designs, on two hundred copper plates; consisting of flowers, shells, figures, birds, insects, landscapes, shipping, beasts, vases, borders, &c. All adapted in the best manner for joining in groupes, or being placed in single objects
Sayer, Robert (1725-1794); Pillement, Jean (1728-1808); Fenn, C; Rösel von Rosenhof, August Johann (1705-1759); Benoist, A (1721-1770); Walker, Anthony (1726-1765); Hemmerich, Cornelius Heinrich; June, John (fl. 1740-1770); Hancock, Robert (1730-1817); Benazech, Peter (1730?-1798); Elliot, William (1727-1766); Roberts, James (1725-1799); Stevens, H; Couse, J; Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019); Landsbergs Bokhandel
[1762?]
Date of publication taken from ESTC. Oblong folio; horizontal chain lines. "The art of japanning made easy": pages 3-6. "A collection of curious insects": plates 83-95. Plates 137-142, 154 and 158...
A treatise of japaning and varnishing, being a compleat discovery of those arts. With the best way of making all sorts of varnish for japan, wood, prints, or pictures. The method of guilding, burnishing, and lackering, with the art of guilding, separating, and refining metals: and of painting mezzo-tinto-prints. Also rules for counterfeiting tortoise-shell, and marble, and for staining or dying wood, ivory, and horn. Together with above an hundred distinct patterns for japan-work, in imitation of the Indians, for tables, stands, frames, cabinets, boxes, &c. Curiously engraven on 24 large copper-plates. By George Parker, varnisher and japaner (oversize)
Stalker, John; Parker, George; Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019); Lee, Ronald Alfred (1913-2000); Antonie, William Lee (1764-1815)
in the year MDCLXXXVIII. [1688]
By George Parker and by John Stalker, whose name appears on title page of other editions of this work. This variant has only Parker on title page. One of at least three imprint variants of this editi...