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Total number of records: 75

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John Evan Bedford Library of Furniture History9
Brotherton Collection2
Herbert Read Collection2

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SubjectCount
decoration and ornament, architectural75
architecture24
decoration and ornament22
furniture9
interior decoration8
fireplaces5
architectural ironwork4
architecture, domestic4
excavations (archaeology)4
furniture design4

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England10
Italy9
Great Britain5
Europe3
France2
Ireland2
Austria1
BaʻLabakk (Lebanon)1
Germany1
London (England)1

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People and organisationsCount
Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)73
Gell, Sir William (1777-1836)4
Le Pautre, Jean (1618-1682)3
Adair, William2
Adam, James, 1732-17942
Adam, James, D. 17942
Adam, Robert, 1728-17922
Albertolli, Giocondo (1742-1839)2
Androuet Du Cerceau, Jacques (1549-1584)2
Babel, P E2

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Robert Adam & his brothers : their lives, work & influence on English architecture, decoration and furniture

Swarbrick, John (1879-1964); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)

[1916]

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

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Art and decoration in Elizabethan and Jacobean England : the influence of continental prints, 1558-1625

Wells-Cole, Anthony; Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)

1997

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Early English decorative detail : from contemporary source books and some early drawings

Gloag, John (1896-1981); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)

1965

Includes bibliographical references (pages 21-22).

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Decorative Wedgwood in architecture and furniture

Kelly, Alison (1913-2016); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)

1965

Includes bibliographical references (pages 137-139).

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Georgian craftsmen and their work

Beard, Geoffrey (1929-); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)

1966

Illustrations on lining papers.

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Les églises romanes de l'ancien diocèse d'Angoulême

George, Jean (1852-1940); Guérin-Boutaud, Alexis

1928

Includes errata sheet.

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Irish eighteenth-century stuccowork and its European scources

McDonnell, Joseph; Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019); National Gallery of Ireland

1991

"Published by the National Gallery of Ireland on the occasion of the exhibition at the National Gallery of Ireland, 1st March-1st April 1991"--Title page verso.

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Les ruines de Balbec : autrement dite Heliopolis dans la Coelosyrie

Wood, Robert (1717?-1771); Borra, Giovanni Battista (1712-1782); Fourdrinier, P (fl. 1720-1760); Major, Thomas (1720-1799)

1757

Text signed: Robert Wood. Plate III is in 2 parts making a total of 47 plates in all. Engravings by P. Fourdrinier and T. Major after drawings by G.B. Borra. Also issued in the same year in Engl...

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Twenty new designs of Chinese lattice and other works, for stair-cases, gates, palings, hatches, &c. on six folio copper plates, with full instructions annex'd to the several divisions, scantlings &c. Thereby making the whole easy to workmen of every capacity. Published according to Act of Parliament, December 16, 1750 (oversize)

Halfpenny, William (1755); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019); Sayer, Robert (1725-1794)

1750

Title is taken from John Bedford's annotation on front pastedown referring to a contemporary advertisement for Brindley and Sayer in Andrea Palladio's First Book of Architecture (1751) by Halfpenny. N...

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Decorative ironwork

Campbell, Marian; Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)

1997

"Victoria and Albert Museum"--Cover of jacket. Illustrations on lining papers. Includes bibliographical references (pages 137-141) and index. This book is unique in that it covers both types of ...

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Designs of desire : architectural and ornament prints and drawings, 1500-1850

Clifford, Timothy; Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019); Burrell Collection; National Galleries of Scotland

[1999]4

Catalog of an exhibition held at the Burrell Gallery, Glasgow, Nov. 18, 1999-Jan. 10, 2000 and at the National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh, March 31-June 18, 2000. Includes bibliographical refe...

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