Skip to main content

Search Special Collections

Results

1 to 12 of 52 records

Total number of records: 52

Count of Collection group

Collection groupCount
John Evan Bedford Library of Furniture History4
Art and Antique Market1
LGBTQ1

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
furniture52
furniture design27
architecture15
decoration and ornament10
perspective8
geometrical drawing7
interior decoration7
historic buildings4
meubles4
a furniture3

Count of Place

PlaceCount
England12
France1
Germany1
Great Britain1
Netherlands1

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)51
Sheraton, Thomas (1751-1806)11
Chippendale, Thomas (1718-1779)4
Chippendale, Thomas, 1718-17794
Leighton, Son & Hodge, London4
Myers & Co, London4
Newton, James (1760-1829)4
Richardson, C J (1806-1871)4
Harline, R3
London Society of Cabinet Makers3

Count of Earliest date

Earliest dateCount
From 16001
From 170018
From 180017
From 190013
From 20001

Count of Latest date

Latest dateCount
Up to 16991
Up to 179914
Up to 189920
Up to 199914
Up to latest1

Archive Print Item

English furniture designers of the eighteenth century

Simon, Constance; Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)

1907

"First published in December, 1904, by A.H. Bullen; transferred to B.T. Batsford, April, 1907."--verso of t.-p.

More details


Archive Print Item

Third supplement to the London chair-makers' book of prices for workmanship : with the methods of computation adopted in the work, illustrated by reference to a variety of figures, engraved on thirteen copper plates

Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019); Committee of Master Chair-Manufacturers and Journeymen (London, England); C. A. Shaw, London

1844

Errata precedes text. Includes index. Goldsmiths'-Kress no. 33707. Bedford Collection copy A168 is wanting plate 9. Bedford Collection copy A169 (4th item) complete. Bedford Collection copy A169 ...

More details

Pattern book of furniture designs
Archive Print Item

Pattern book of furniture designs

King, Thomas (1829-1839); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019); Grisbrook, William

[c.1839?]

Bedford Collection copy A109 is wanting title page and 6 plates [possibly lithographs]: missing numbers 136-139, 160-163, 184-187, 236-237, 276-277, 338. Plate numbers 278, 279, 313 and 314 almost ma...

More details and larger image


Archive Print Item

Archive Print Item

Archive Print Item

Archive Print Item

Regional Furniture Study Group

Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019); Antique Collectors' Club; Regional Furniture Study Group

[1985]

Title from cover. "Spring 1985"--Cover.

More details


Archive Print Item

The practical cabinet-maker, upholsterer, and complete decorator / by Peter & Michael Angelo Nicholson; with numerous illustrative engravings

Nicholson, Peter 1765-1844; Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019); Nicholson, MA (1842); Michell, GV

1826-7

Engraved tp by MA Nicholson and Dick. Other steel engraved plates drawn by M.A. Nicholson and engraved by W. Kelsall, R. Tingle, J. Tingle, W. Symns, R. Roffe, J. Tyrer, A. Dick, J. Allen, Cosmo Armst...

More details


Archive Print Item

Sketches of ornament

Chippendale, Thomas Junior [or The Younger] (1749-1823); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019); Davies, Francis Byam (1835-1854); Davies, Henry Fanshawe (1837-1914)

1779

Bedford Collection copy A129 consists entirely of plates, 6 in total including the title page, all by T.Chippendale, Jnr inv et ex. First item in a bound volume of 4 items. Bound with: 2. The prin...

More details


Archive Print Item

Oficina arcvlaria : in qva svnt ad spectantia diuersa eximia exempla ex varijs autoribus collecta = Bovticqve menvserie : d'dens laquelle sont comprins les plus notable fondaments, non moins arichesse auecq des nouuelles inuentons = Schriner Laden : in wischem begriffen seyn vnderschadtliche schoene Fondamenten zu Nutz deren Const Liebhaberen = Schrinwerckers Winckel : waer in begrepen syn de principaelste stucken der schrenwerckers const (oversize)

Passe, Crispijn van de (1670); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019); Blavignac, J J; Tribert, James; Le Court, Pierre; Brooke, Sir Thomas (1830-1980); Stirling-Maxwell, Sir John (1866-1956); Belz-Niedrée, Philippe (1831-1917)

1642

Originally published 1621 by van de Passe, the elder. Bedford Collection K076 has two sets of plates bound in 1 volume. Numbered pages 1-28 after title page are from Bernardino Radi, Varie inventioni...

More details


Archive Print Item

The furniture designs of Thomas Sheraton

Sheraton, Thomas (1751-1806); Bell, J Munro; Hayden, Arthur (1868-1946); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)

1910

Pages 1-57, 63-128 consist of full-page illustrations. Contains re-issue with reproductions of original title-pages: [a] The cabinet-maker and upholsterer's drawing-book. In four parts. By Thomas Sh...

More details