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decoration and ornament	20
fashion	14
manners and customs	14
japanning	4
printing	3
architecture	1
architecture, chinese	1
chinoiserie (art)	1
furniture	1

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Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)	19
Ackermann, Rudolph (1764-1834)	14
Shoberl, Frederic (1852)	14
Pillement, Jean (1728-1808)	4
Sayer, Robert (1725-1794)	4
Benazech, Peter (1730?-1798)	1
Benoist, A (1721-1770)	1
Bibliotheque Publique Jersey	1
Couse, J	1
Decker, Paul the Younger	1

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From 1900	4

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The ladies amusement, or, Whole art of japanning made easy : illustrated in upwards of fifteen-hundred different designs on two hundred copper plates (oversize)

Pillement, Jean (1728-1808); Sayer, Robert (1725-1794); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)

1966

Facsimile reprint. Originally published: 2nd ed. London : Robert Sayer, [1762?]. "Reprinted from the only surviving perfect copy of 'The Ladies amusement'"--Page [1], 1st sequence. Reprinted from a ...

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The ladies amusement, or, Whole art of japanning made easy : illustrated in upwards of fifteen-hundred different designs on two hundred copper plates (oversize)

Pillement, Jean (1728-1808); Sayer, Robert (1725-1794); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)

[2000?]

Facsimile reprint. Originally published: 2nd ed. London : Robert Sayer, [1762?]. Reprinted from the only surviving perfect copy of The Ladies amusement, 1762. Reprinted from a copy of the 2nd editio...

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The ladies amusement, or, Whole art of japanning made easy : illustrated in upwards of fifteen-hundred different designs on two hundred copper plates (oversize)

Pillement, Jean (1728-1808); Sayer, Robert (1725-1794); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)

[2000?]

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The ladies amusement, or, Whole art of japanning made easy : Illustrated in upwards of fifteen-hundred different designs, on two hundred copper plates; consisting of flowers, shells, figures, birds, insects, landscapes, shipping, beasts, vases, borders, &c. All adapted in the best manner for joining in groupes, or being placed in single objects

Sayer, Robert (1725-1794); Pillement, Jean (1728-1808); Fenn, C; Rösel von Rosenhof, August Johann (1705-1759); Benoist, A (1721-1770); Walker, Anthony (1726-1765); Hemmerich, Cornelius Heinrich; June, John (fl. 1740-1770); Hancock, Robert (1730-1817); Benazech, Peter (1730?-1798); Elliot, William (1727-1766); Roberts, James (1725-1799); Stevens, H; Couse, J; Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019); Landsbergs Bokhandel

[1762?]

Date of publication taken from ESTC. Oblong folio; horizontal chain lines. "The art of japanning made easy": pages 3-6. "A collection of curious insects": plates 83-95. Plates 137-142, 154 and 158...

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Chinese architecture, civil and ornamental. Being a large collection of the most elegant and useful designs and plans and elevations, &c. from the Imperial retreat to the smallest ornamental building in China. Likewise their marine subjects. The whole to adorn gardens, parks, forests, woods, canals etc. . . The whole neatly engraved on twenty-four copper-plates, form real designs drawn in China, adapted to this climate

DECKER, Paul the Younger; Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019); Bibliotheque Publique Jersey

1759

First item in a bound volume of 4 items. 3 plates numbered 45 [9], 107 [17] and 44 [23], numbers were added by Robert Sayer when he re-issued some of Decker's plates in The ladies amusement (1762). ...

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