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| People and organisations | Count |
|---|---|
| Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019) | 30 |
| Leighton, Son & Hodge, London | 4 |
| Myers & Co, London | 4 |
| Newton, James (1760-1829) | 4 |
| Richardson, C J (1806-1871) | 4 |
| Sheraton, Thomas (1751-1806) | 4 |
| Adair, William | 2 |
| Alberti, Leon Battista (1404-1472) | 2 |
| Androuet Du Cerceau, Jacques (1549-1584) | 2 |
| Babel, P E | 2 |
The gentleman and cabinet-maker's director. Being a large collection of the most elegant and useful designs of houshold furniture in the gothic, Chinese and modern taste: including a great variety of book-cases for libraries or private rooms. Commodes, library and writing-tables, buroes, breakfast-tables, dressing and china-tables, china-cases, hanging-shelves, tea-chests, trays, fire-screens, chairs, settees, sopha's, beds, presses and cloaths-chests, pier-glass sconces, slab frames, brackets, candle-stands, clock-cases, frets, and other ornaments. To which is prefixed. A short explanation of the five orders of architecture, and rules of perspective; 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 one hundred and sixty 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, of St. Martin's-lane, cabinet-maker (oversize)
Chippendale, Thomas (1718-1779); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)
[1754]
Titlepage in red and black. With a half-title and a list of subscribers. The third leaf is an engraved dedication.
The gentleman and cabinet-maker's director. Being a large collection of the most elegant and useful designs of houshold furniture in the gothic, Chinese and modern taste: including a great variety of book-cases for libraries or private rooms. Commodes, library and writing-tables, buroes, breakfast-tables, dressing and china-tables, china-cases, hanging-shelves, tea-chests, trays, fire-screens, chairs, settees, sopha's, beds, presses and cloaths-chests, pier-glass sconces, slab frames, brackets, candle-stands, clock-cases, frets, and other ornaments. To which is prefixed. A short explanation of the five orders of architecture, and rules of perspective; 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 one hundred and sixty 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, of St. Martin's-lane, cabinet-maker (oversize)
Chippendale, Thomas (1718-1779); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)
[1754]
Titlepage in red and black. With a half-title and a list of subscribers. The third leaf is an engraved dedication.
Tratado nuevo de las cosas maravillosas de la alma ciudad de Roma. Adornado de muchas figuras, y en el se va discurriendo de trezientas, y mas iglesias
Felini, Pietro Martire; Palladio, Andrea (1508-1580); Parisio, Prospero; Muñoz, Alonso
1619
"Las antiguidades figuradas del alma ciudad de Roma" by Andrea Palladio with additions by Prospero Parisio: p. [257]-448. Title in red and black.
Design for a 24 hour clock face for a turret or railway station
c. 1883
Design for a 24 hour clock face for a turret or railway station by (Joseph) Alfred Novello, with notes in purple ink above and below. The reverse of the card on which the design is drawn is printed in...
A parallel of the ancient architecture with the modern : in a collection of ten principal authors who have written upon the five orders, viz. Palladio and Scamozzi, Serlio and Vignola, D. Barbaro and Cataneo, L. B. Alberti and Viola, Bullant and De Lorme, compared with one another. The three Greek orders, Dorick, Ionick, and Corinthian, comprise the first part of this treatise. And the two Latin, Tuscan and Composita, the latter
Fréart, Roland sieur de Chambray (1606-1676); Alberti, Leon Battista (1404-1472); Evelyn, John (1620-1706); Wotton, Sir Henry (1568-1639)
1723
Title in red and black; title-vignette; head-and tail-pieces; initials. Engraved frontispiece reads: A parallel of architecture both ancient & moderne, by Roland Freart, sr de Chambray.
A complete body of architecture. Adorned with plans and elevations, from original designs. By Isaac Ware, Esq. of His Majesty's board of works. In which are interspersed some designs of Inigo Jones, never before published (oversize)
Ware, Isaac (1704?-1766); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019); Guest, John; Scott, Arthur Finley
MDCCLXVII. [1767]
Titlepage in red and black. Comprises books I-X [1-10]. The last 2 leaves contain the index. A re-issue of the sheets of the Osborne and Shipton 1756 edition, with a different titlepage, and sig...
London passed and passing : a pictorial record of destroyed & threatened buildings
Fletcher, Hanslip (1874-1955)
1908
Title in red and black. Title vignette.
A parallel of the antient architecture with the modern : in a collection of ten principal authors who have written upon the five orders, viz. Palladio and Scamozzi, Serlio and Vignola, D. Barbaro and Cataneo, L.B. Alberti and Viola, Bullant and De Lorme, compared with one another. The three Greek orders, Dorique, Ionique and Corinthian, comprise the first part of this treatise. And the two Latine, Tuscan and Composita the latter
Fréart, Roland sieur de Chambray (1606-1676); Alberti, Leon Battista (1404-1472); Evelyn, John (1620-1706)
1664
First edition. Bookseller's list, 1 page, on verso following p.159. Latin verses to Evelyn by Beale printed on A1r. Additional engraved title-page, with dedicatory portrait of Baron de Noyers, a...
Sound Recordings, Wiltshire and Hampshire
Kylstra, Henk E
1961
Mr. G. Shaw, recorded at home in Whiteparish; talks about domestic lighting; thatching (hay ricks, cottages); roods (measurement of length); walls for dwellings and materials used; mowing with a scyth...
Sound Recordings, Isle of Wight, Wiltshire and Berkshire
Kylstra, Henk E; Barry, Michael V (1935-)
1959-1960
[Collector announcement]; Mr. M. Sheath, recorded in Whitwell (Isle of Wight) in April 1959, by Henk Kylstra; talks about the uses for farm waggons and carts; the decline in the use of horses; ploughi...
Examples of ornamental sculpture in architecture : drawn from the originals of bronze, marble, and terra cot[ta] in Greece, Asia Minor, and Italy (oversize)
Vulliamy, Lewis (1791-1871); Moses, Henry (1782?-1870); Prowett, Septimus (179-?-1867); Jennings, Robert (fl. 1812-1831?); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019); Architectural Library; Priestley and Weale; Chatfield & Coleman
[1823-1827]
Engraved title page. Plates drawn by Lewis Vulliamy, architecture, and engraved by Henry Moses. Plates dated 1823 to 1827.