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Total number of records: 88

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Books and printed items81
Archives7

Count of Collection group

Collection groupCount
Leeds Russian Archive10
Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture7
John Evan Bedford Library of Furniture History4
Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society4
Brotherton Collection3
Herbert Read Collection1
Ripon Cathedral1

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
architecture88
furniture15
furniture design11
buildings8
perspective8
community life7
geometrical drawing7
occupations7
agriculture6
animals6

Top 10: Place

PlaceCount
England7
Great Britain4
Saint Petersburg (Russia)2
BaʻLabakk (Lebanon)1
Egypt1
Kiev (Ukraine)1
London (England)1
Monticello (Va.)1
Syria1
Tadmur (Syria)1

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)30
Sheraton, Thomas (1751-1806)7
Grabarʹ, Igorʹ Emmanuilovich (1871-1960)6
Benois, Alexandre (1870-1960)5
Bilibin, Ivan ︠I︡Akovlevich (1876-1942)5
Britton, John (1771-1857)5
Dobuzhinskii, Mstislav Valerianovich (1875-1957)5
Lansere, E (1875-1946)5
Adam, Robert, 1728-17924
Byrne, William (1743-1805)4

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From 16001
From 170028
From 180027
From 190032

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Up to 16991
Up to 179922
Up to 189933
Up to 199932

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The art of Egypt through the ages

Ross, Sir E Denison (1871-1940)

1931

Introduction, by Sir E. D. Ross.--The predynastic and early dynastic period, by T. E. Peet.--The old kingdom, by H. R. H. Hall.--The intermediate period and middle kingdom, by A. M. Blackman and T. E....

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L'œuvre de Philibert de L'Orme : comprenant le premier tome de L'architecture et Les nouvelles inventions pour bien bastir et à petitz frais

L'Orme, Philibert de (1515?-1570); Nizet, C

1894

Various pagings. With reproduction of original t.-p. within architectural border: Le premier tome de l'architectvre de Philibert de L'Orme... A Paris, Chez Federic Morel, 1567: includes also reprodu...

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Examples of Gothic architecture : selected from various antient edifices in England: consisting of plans, elevations, sections, and parts at large; calculated to exemplify the various styles, and the practical construction of this admired class of architecture: accompanied by historical and descriptive accounts

Pugin, Augustus Charles (1762-1832); Willson, Edward James (1787-1854); Moyes, James (1838)

1831

"May be regarded as... a continuation of ... 'Specimens [of Gothic architecture]' ... published in two volumes 4to by A. Pugin ... 3d edition, 1825" -- p. [ix] Issued in parts. Plates are etchings...

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The cabinet-maker and upholsterer's drawing-book. In three parts. By Thomas Sheraton, cabinet-maker (Vol 2)

Sheraton, Thomas (1751-1806); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019); Newton, James (1760-1829)

1791-1794 [1793 entered at Stationers Hall]

With a final errata leaf. With 4 subscribers lists: after the contents, at end of first part, after the Appendix, and after the Accompaniment. In 3 parts: Part I dated 1791, Part II (vol ii on tit...

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The cabinet-maker and upholsterer's drawing-book. In three parts. By Thomas Sheraton, cabinet-maker (Vol I)

Sheraton, Thomas (1751-1806); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019); Newton, James (1760-1829)

1791-1794 [1793 entered at Stationers Hall]

With a final errata leaf. With 4 subscribers lists: after the contents, at end of first part, after the Appendix, and after the Accompaniment. In 3 parts: Part I dated 1791, Part II (vol ii on tit...

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The cabinet-maker and upholsterer's drawing-book. In three parts. By Thomas Sheraton, cabinet-maker

Sheraton, Thomas (1751-1806); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019); Newton, James (1760-1829)

1791-1794 [1793 entered at Stationers Hall]

With a final errata leaf. With 4 subscribers lists: after the contents, at end of first part, after the Appendix, and after the Accompaniment. In 3 parts: Part I dated 1791, Part II (vol ii on tit...

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The cabinet-maker and upholsterer's drawing-book. In three parts. By Thomas Sheraton, cabinet-maker

Sheraton, Thomas (1751-1806); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019); Newton, James (1760-1829)

1791-1794 [1793 entered at Stationers Hall]

With a final errata leaf. With 4 subscribers lists: after the contents, at end of first part, after the Appendix, and after the Accompaniment. In 3 parts: Part I dated 1791, Part II (vol ii on tit...

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Sound Recordings, Warwickshire

Wharton, Colin S

1967

Danny Bachelor, recorded at home in Ratley, describes a plant remedy for shingles (used c. 1900); describes cattle cures; mesmerising chickens; breaking eggs; charming animals (horses); use of saltpet...

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Building Technique

1966-1973

This file contains items relating to buildings and construction techniques, and includes photocopies of maps showing the location of aisle-trusses in Welsh buildings, and aisled buildings in Yorkshire...

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The gentleman & cabinet-maker's director : reprint of the third edition with a biographical sketch and photographic supplement of Chippendale-type furniture

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

1966

"Unabridged and unaltered republication of the third ed. published by the author in London in 1762"--Title page verso. Facsimile reprint. With title: The gentleman and cabinet-maker's director : bei...

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Album of eighteenth-century plates of ornamental designs for trophies, shields, vases, print rooms etc
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Album of eighteenth-century plates of ornamental designs for trophies, shields, vases, print rooms etc

Vivares, François and others (1709-1780); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019); Charpentier, Francois-Phillipe? (1734-1817); Angier, Paul (1725-1757); Benoist, Antoine (1721-1770?); Le Pautre, Jean (1618-1682); Delafosse, Jean Baptiste? (1721-1806); Eisen, Charles-Doinique-Joseph (1720-1778); Darly, Matthew (1721-1780); Le Romain, Jacques Dumont (1701-1781); Edwards, George (1694-1773); Peyrotte, Alexis (1699-1769); Brunetti, Gaetano? (1758); Babel, Pierre Edme (1775); Nilson, Johann Esaias (1721-1788); Hemerick; Sympson, Samuel (1751); Vivares, Thomas (1744-1783)

[approximately 1754-1798]

Title supplied by cataloguer. Album or scrapbook containing eighteenth-century ornamental plates.

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Kiev : arkhit.-ist. ocherk

Shulʹkevich, M M; Dmitrenko, T D

1978

Summary in English.

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