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Total number of records: 538

Count of Record type

Record typeCount
Books and printed items528
Objects5
Archives4
Art items1

Top 10: Collection group

Collection groupCount
John Evan Bedford Library of Furniture History84
Brotherton Collection71
Maurice de Sausmarez Archive51
Herbert Read Collection49
Leeds Russian Archive27
Novello Cowden Clarke Collection10
Art and Antique Market7
LGBTQ7
English Literature4
Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society3

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
decorative arts345
decoration and ornament179
art114
arts decoratifs100
furniture81
architecture, georgian61
meubles59
art objects39
architecture36
décoration et ornement34

Top 10: Place

PlaceCount
England111
Ireland30
Europe27
Great Britain27
France12
Dunhuang (China)4
Ludlow (England)4
Stokesay (England)4
United States4
Asia3

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)317
De Sausmarez, Maurice (1915-1969)75
Georgian Group (London, England)33
Sotheby'S (Firm)33
Decorative Arts Society 1850--The Present32
Irish Georgian Society28
Christie, Manson & Woods16
Read, Sir Herbert Edward (1893-1968)13
Victoria and Albert Museum13
So︠I︡Uz Khudozhnikov Sssr12

Count of Earliest date

Earliest dateCount
From 16001
From 17006
From 180079
From 1900274
From 200064

Count of Latest date

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Up to 16991
Up to 17994
Up to 189980
Up to 1999274
Up to latest65

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Decorative arts in Europe, 1790-1850

Groër, Léon de (1914-); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)

1986

Translation of: Les arts décoratifs de 1790 à 1850. Includes bibliographical references (pages 346-349) and index. Illustrated history of Neoclassical interior design.

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The great exhibition, London, 1851 : the Art Journal Illustrated Catalogue : the industry of all nations, 1851

Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)

[1970]

"This catalogue was first published at the time of the Great Exhibition, London, 1851."

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The arts applied : a catalogue of books : furniture, interior design, murals, mosaics, ceilings, exhibitions, ceramics, metalwork, jewelry, textiles, vases, ornament; some original drawings

Chafer, Denise; Pagan, Hugh; Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019); B. Weinreb Architectural Books Ltd

1975

"Catalogued and annotated by Denise Chafer & Hugh Pagan." "Catalogue 29."

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The exhibition of art-industry in Dublin, 1853

Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)

1853

1st item in a bound volume of 3 items

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Catalogue of the exhibition of British industrial art in relation to the home, June 20 - July 12, Dorland Hall... 1933

Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019); Great Britain. Committee on Art and Industry

[1933]

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Britisk brugskunst, et udvalg af billeder fra udstillingen 1932 i det Danske kunstindustrimusum

Rasmussen, Steen Eiler (1898-); Danske kunstindustrimuseum

1933

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Craft horizons

American Crafts Council; American Craftsmen's Council

v.26, no.3 (1966)

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Tvar : Časopis pro průmyslové výtvarnictví a lidovou tvorbu

Ústředí Lidové a Umělecké Výroby v Praze

1948-

v.2, no.3 (1949); v.15, nos. 1-2 (1964); v.15, no.5 (1964); v.15, nos 9-10 (1964) v. 16, no.8-10 (1965); v.17, nos. 1-2 ; v.17, no.4, v.17, no.6-9; [v.18, no.1?] ; v.18, nos. 8-9 (1967?]

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A survey of British industrial arts

Dowling, Henry George; Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)

[1935]

Page 57 blank for "Notes."

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Dekorativno-prikladnoe iskusstvo sovremennoĭ I︠A︡ponii v sobranii Ėrmitazha

Dashkevich-Purto, Victoria; Gosudarstvennyĭ Ėrmitazh (Russia)

1965

Includes bibliographical references (page 75).

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Design & the decorative arts : Britain, 1500-1900

Snodin, Michael; Styles, John; Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019); Victoria and Albert Museum

2001

"Published to coincide with the opening of the Victoria and Albert Museum's new 'British Galleries 1500-1900'"--Foreword. Includes bibliographical references (pages 466-467) and index. "This boo...

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Catalogue of the valuable furnishings, silver, china and glass, at Lambton Castle, Co. Durham which will be sold by auction, on Monday, 25th April, 1932, and eight other days... by Anderson & Garland

Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019); Anderson & Garland (Firm); Lambton Castle (England)

[1932]

At head of title: By direction of the Right Hon. the Earl of Durham.

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