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Total number of records: 392

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Archives273
Books and printed items119

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Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture273
Brotherton Collection12
John Evan Bedford Library of Furniture History6
Cookery Collection3
Herbert Read Collection2

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house furnishings392
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Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)115
Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)96
Scott, Mrs M. E.13
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Aston, Michael Geoffrey11
Malden, John11
Feather, Leslie9
Mallinson, J Mrs9
Barry, Michael V (1935-)8
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The magazine antiques (v. 157, no. 6, June 2000)

Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)

[1971]-

Description based on: May 2006; title from cover.

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Old-house interiors (March 2003)

©1995-

Title from cover. Published by: Gloucester publishers, <winter 1998-> From the publishers of Old-house journal. First issued, summer 1994, as Vol. 22, no. 3 of Old-house journal.

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Design at home : exhibition of furniture and furnishing

Gray, Milner; Carrington, Noel; Council for the Encouragement of Music and the Arts

[1945]

Catalogue of an exhibition organised for the Council for the Encouragement of Music and the Arts by Milner Gray, 1945.

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Formes utiles

Union des artistes modernes (Paris, France)

1952-1954 Exhibition catalogs.

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Great Irish households : inventories from the long eighteenth century

Murdoch, T V; Cunningham, Jessica; Campion, Rebecca; Joyce, Edmund; Cobbe, Alec; Adamson, John (1949-)

2022

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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The flat book

Martin, Leslie (1908-2000); Speight, S; Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)

1939

Includes bibliographical references (page 190).

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Soft furnishings : 1830-1930

Wright, Elizabeth Mary (1863-1958); Broadbent, James; Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019); Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales

1995

Includes bibliographical references (pages 160-161) and index.

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The National Trust book of furnishing textiles

Clabburn, Pamela; Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)

[1988]

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The plate-Glass-Book, consisting of the following authentic tables. I. The value of any looking-glass when finished, and fit for framing. II. The Glass-House Table; shewing the Value of the Rough-Plate, and also of the Rough-Plate and Duty. III. The Prices of Grinding, Polishing, Silvering, and Diamond-Cutting the several Marks or Sizes. IV. The Value of a Looking-Glass when accidentally Broken, or designedly Divided. V. The several Discounts made at the Glass-Houses. To which is Prefixed, An Explanation of the Tables: And a Preface, demonstrating the Fallibility and Incorrectness of all written Tables and wooden Rules, for valuing of Plate-Glass. With Some Observations concerning the Nature and Antiquity of Glass in general. Of Plate or Looking-Glass; Of the Ingredients of which it is made, and the Time it requires for founding; Of the Manner of grinding, polishing, and silvering it. Also of the different Colours of Plate-Glass; and at what Rate the several Hazards attending the working, silvering, framing, and packing of it ought to be estimated. Also of Mirrors both Concave and Convex. By a glass-house clerk. A new edition, corrected. To which is added, The compleat appraiser. Consisting of ninety-odd tables, with Instructions for valuing of Kitchen and Household Furniture, &c. &c

Glass-house clerk; Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)

[1771]

Includes: The compleat appraiser. Consisting of useful tables, with their explanation, for the valuing of braziers, copper-smiths, plumbers, and pewterers Goods: also for iron, wall-paer, damask, and ...

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Maples fine furnishers : a household name for 150 Years

Barty-King, Hugh (1914-); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)

1992

Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-174) and index.

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