Skip to main content

Search Special Collections

Results

1 to 12 of 63 records

Total number of records: 63

Count of Collection group

Collection groupCount
John Evan Bedford Library of Furniture History11
Cookery Collection2
Ripon Cathedral1

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
furniture63
furniture design28
decoration and ornament13
interior decoration10
architecture9
draperies9
seating (furniture)8
architecture, domestic5
cabinetwork5
art objects4

Count of Place

PlaceCount
England14
Germany5
Austria1
Europe1
France1
Ireland1
Scotland1

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)61
Furstenberg Princely Court Household [Library], Donaueschingen, Germany8
Godel, Vilhelm (1864-1941)8
Guilmard, DéSiré (1810-1889)8
Leighton, Son & Hodge, London4
Myers & Co, London4
Richardson, C J (1806-1871)4
Cescinsky, Herbert (1875-)3
Chippendale, Thomas (1718-1779)3
Den Norske Haandverks- Og Industri-Forening, Kristiania3

Count of Earliest date

Earliest dateCount
From 17007
From 180051
From 19005

Count of Latest date

Latest dateCount
Up to 17994
Up to 189952
Up to 19997
Digitised copy available on the Internet Archive as part of the UK Medical Heritage Library Project
Archive Print Item

Archive Print Item

An encyclopædia of domestic economy : comprising such subjects as are most immediately connected with housekeeping: as, the construction of domestic edifices, with the modes of warming, ventilating, and lighting them; a description of the varous articles of furniture, with the nature of their materials; duties of servants; a general account of the animal and vegetable substances used as food

Webster, Thomas (1773-1844); Parkes, Mrs William; Spottiswoode, A; Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)

1844

With a 32-page catalogue of works published by Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans. Bedford Collection copy A673 does not contain a 32-page catalogue of works.

More details


Archive Print Item

An encyclopædia of domestic economy : comprising such subjects as are most immediately connected with housekeeping: as, the construction of domestic edifices, with the modes of warming, ventilating, and lighting them; a description of the varous articles of furniture, with the nature of their materials; duties of servants; a general account of the animal and vegetable substances used as food

Webster, Thomas (1773-1844); Parkes, Mrs William; Spottiswoode, A; Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)

1844

With a 32-page catalogue of works published by Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans. Bedford Collection copy A673 does not contain a 32-page catalogue of works.

More details


Archive Print Item

Ken Hill, Snettisham, Norfolk, auction, Monday 13 September 1999

Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019); Christie's South Kensington, Ltd.

[1999]

Includes index. Catalog of Christie's auction of Ken Hill, sold by order of the executors of the late Sir Edward Stephen Lycett Green, Bt. "Including important furniture by Thomas Jeckyll"--Cover....

More details


Archive Print Item

Recueil pratique d'ameublements complets de divers styles

Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)

[approximately 1888]

Issued in 5 livraisons of 5 plates each, together with a portfolio. See the record for this work in the Belgian Royal Library online catalog. The plates, printed on green-tinted paper, are captioned...

More details


Archive Print Item

Exemplars of Tudor architecture, adapted to modern habitations : with illustrative details, selected from ancient edifices; and observations on the furniture of the Tudor period

Hunt, T F; Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)

M.DCCC.XLI. [1841]

Reprint. Originally published: London : Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1830. The etched plates retain the original imprint, with date 1829. Collation: [A]⁴ B-2C⁴ [$1 signed]; 104 leaves,...

More details


Archive Print Item

An encyclopædia of cottage, farm, and villa architecture and furniture : containing numerous designs for dwellings... each design accompanied by analytical and critical remarks

Loudon, John Claudius (1783-1843)

1839

At front is a "Notice of a series of encyclopaedias & dictionaries"(16 p.), dated Sept. 1840; at end is an index to vols. 1-5 of "The Architectural Magazine" (edited by Loudon), followed by a list of ...

More details


Archive Print Item

An encyclopædia of cottage, farm, and villa architecture and furniture : containing numerous designs for dwellings... each design accompanied by analytical and critical remarks

Loudon, John Claudius (1783-1843)

1839

At front is a "Notice of a series of encyclopaedias & dictionaries"(16 p.), dated Sept. 1840; at end is an index to vols. 1-5 of "The Architectural Magazine" (edited by Loudon), followed by a list of ...

More details


Archive Print Item

Le garde-meuble ancien et moderne (oversize, vol 8)

Guilmard, Désiré (1810-1889); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019); Gödel, Vilhelm (1864-1941); Fürstenberg princely court household [library], Donaueschingen, Germany

[c.1839-18]

Title taken from plate[s] in volume 1. Le garde meuble was bi-monthly [every two months?] periodical designed and published by Désiré Guilmard in Paris, starting in 1839. Each bi-monthly edition...

More details


Archive Print Item

Le garde-meuble ancien et moderne (oversize, vol 3)

Guilmard, Désiré (1810-1889); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019); Gödel, Vilhelm (1864-1941); Fürstenberg princely court household [library], Donaueschingen, Germany

[c.1839-18]

Title taken from plate[s] in volume 1. Le garde meuble was bi-monthly [every two months?] periodical designed and published by Désiré Guilmard in Paris, starting in 1839. Each bi-monthly edition...

More details