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A collection of designs for household furniture and interior decoration : in the most approved and elegant taste; viz sideboards ; bookcases ; beds and cornices; chairs; stools; fauteuils; commodes; window-curtains; pier-tables; candelabri ; tables for libraries, writing, work, dressing etc. Sofas; ottomans ; console-tables; chaise-longues; glasses; mirrors; lamps; jardiniers ; wardrobes; pedestals; chiffoniers, &c, &c.: with various designs for rooms, shewing the decorations, adjustment of the furniture, &c. Elegantly engraved from original drawings (Vol 1)
Smith, George (1786-1826); Gosnell, Samuel; Taylor, J (1761-1834); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)
1805
Date of publication from George Smith's advertisement on title page, No 15 Prince's Street, Cavendish Square, 1805. [Title page] This work will consist of about 150 plates, engraved in aqua-tint, ma...
A collection of designs for household furniture and interior decoration : in the most approved and elegant taste; viz sideboards ; bookcases ; beds and cornices; chairs; stools; fauteuils; commodes; window-curtains; pier-tables; candelabri ; tables for libraries, writing, work, dressing etc. Sofas; ottomans ; console-tables; chaise-longues; glasses; mirrors; lamps; jardiniers ; wardrobes; pedestals; chiffoniers, &c, &c.: with various designs for rooms, shewing the decorations, adjustment of the furniture, &c. Elegantly engraved from original drawings (Vol 2)
Smith, George (1786-1826); Gosnell, Samuel; Taylor, J (1761-1834); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)
1805
Date of publication from George Smith's advertisement on title page, No 15 Prince's Street, Cavendish Square, 1805. [Title page] This work will consist of about 150 plates, engraved in aqua-tint, ma...
The upholstered furniture in the Lady Lever Art Gallery (v.2)
Wood, Lucy (1985-); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019); Lady Lever Art Gallery
[2008]
Includes bibliographical references (pages 1101-1126) and index. Volume I -- UPholstered furniture in Britain c. 1690-1820 // design, manufacture and trade -- late baroque upholstery and seating c. ...
The upholstered furniture in the Lady Lever Art Gallery (v.1)
Wood, Lucy (1985-); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019); Lady Lever Art Gallery
[2008]
Includes bibliographical references (pages 1101-1126) and index. Volume I -- UPholstered furniture in Britain c. 1690-1820 // design, manufacture and trade -- late baroque upholstery and seating c. ...
The London upholsterer's companion : containing the most approved and modern methods for the various styles of manufacturing, including the art of spring stuffing, with all its late improvements, &c., &c
Crofton, John Saville; Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019); Folkard, R
1834
With a directory of manufacturers [4 pages, advertisements] after page 89.
The rudiments of drawing cabinet and upholstery furniture: : comprising the most explicit instructions for designing and delineating the different articles of those branches geometrically and perspectively; thereby producing the effect each will have when executed: and shewing by a scale the real measures for the workman. Illustrated by appropriate diagrams and designs, proportioned upon architectural principles, after the manner of the antique, on twenty-five plates, each accompanied with explanatory and miscellaneous remarks. The second edition, improved. To which is subjoined an elucidation of the principles of drawing ornaments, exemplified on seven plates
Brown, Richard (Architect); Smart, R W; Taylor, J Sydney (1795-1841); Gosnell, Samuel; Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)
1822
Printer's name from colophon.
Le guide du tapissier, de l'ʹebʹeniste, et de tous ceux qui travaillent en meubles; comme aussi celui des honnêtes-gens qui en font faire:... Le tout reprʹesentʹe en 200 planches proprement gravʹees; ... Par Thomas Chippendale (oversize)
Chippendale, Thomas (1718-1779); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)
1762
Published according to an act of Parliament 1753, 1759, 1760, 1761 1762 etc. Designed and drawn by Thomas Chippendale, engraved by T Miller, Hemerich, M Darly, C Lowe, I Taylor, B Clowes, W Foster, I...
The cabinet-maker and upholsterer's guide; or, repository of designs for every article of household furniture, in the newest and most approved taste: displaying a great variety of patterns for Chairs Stools Sofas Confidante Duchesse Side Boards Pedestals and Vases Cellerets Knife-Cases Desk and Book-Cases Secretary and Book-Cases Library Cases Library Tables Reading Desks Chests of Drawers Urn Stands Tea Caddies Tea Trays Card Tables Pier Tables Pembroke Tables Tambour Tables Dressing Glasses Dressing Tables and Drawers Commodes Rudd's Table Bidets Night Tables Bason Stands Wardrobes Pot Cupboards Brackets Hanging Shelves Fire Screens Beds Field Beds Sweep Tops for Ditto Bed Pillars Candle Stands Lamps Pier Glasses Terms for Busts Cornices for Library Cases, Wardrobes, &c. at large Ornamented Tops for Pier Tables, Pembroke Tables, Commodes, &c. &c. In the plainest and most enriched styles; with a scale to each, and an explanation in letter press. Also the plan of a room, shewing the proper distribution of the furniture. The whole exhibiting near three hundred different designs, engraved on one hundred and twenty-seven plates. From drawings by A. Heppelwhite and Co. Cabinet-Makers
Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019); A. Hepplewhite and Co
M DCC LXXXIX. [1789]
With four pages of advertisements bound at beginning. With index. Bedford Collection copy A610 has 2 pages of advertisements bound at the end: A catalogue of modern books on architecture, &c., I a...
The practical cabinet maker & upholsterer's treasury of designs : house-furnishing & decorating assistant : in the Grecian, Italian, Renaissance, Louis-Quatorze, Gothic, Tudor, and Elizabethan styles : interspersed with designs executed for the royal palaces, and for some of the principal mansions of the nobility and gentry, and club houses
Whitaker, Henry (1825-1847); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019); Alexander, James Du Pre (1812-1855); Adlard, H
[1847?]
Added engraved title page: Cabinet maker & upholsterer's treasury of designs. Introduction dated: "February, 1847." Bedford Collection copy A581 has contents of 8 pages describing 111 plates, and is...
The practical cabinet maker & upholsterer's treasury of designs : house-furnishing & decorating assistant : in the Grecian, Italian, Renaissance, Louis-Quatorze, Gothic, Tudor, and Elizabethan styles : interspersed with designs executed for the royal palaces, and for some of the principal mansions of the nobility and gentry, and club houses
Whitaker, Henry (1825-1847); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019); Alexander, James Du Pre (1812-1855); Adlard, H
[1847?]
Added engraved title page: Cabinet maker & upholsterer's treasury of designs. Introduction dated: "February, 1847." Bedford Collection copy A581 has contents of 8 pages describing 111 plates, and is...