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John Evan Bedford Library of Furniture History10
Art and Antique Market1
Brotherton Collection1
Herbert Read Collection1
LGBTQ1

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decoration and ornament63
architecture34
decoration and ornament, architectural23
furniture13
interior decoration9
vases8
furniture design4
architecture, classical3
architecture, gothic3
ceilings3

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Italy4
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Germany2
Austria1
Grossbritannien1
Ireland1
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Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)59
Le Pautre, Jean (1618-1682)6
Chippendale, Thomas (1718-1779)4
Chippendale, Thomas, 1718-17793
Normand, Charles Pierre Joseph (1765-1840)3
Shaw, Henry (1800-1873)3
Albertolli, Giocondo (1742-1839)2
Androuet Du Cerceau, Jacques (1549-1584)2
Babel, P E2
Bauer, M2

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Etchings, representing the best examples of ancient ornamental architecture : drawn from the originals in Rome, and other parts of Italy, during the years 1794, 1795, and 1796 (oversize)

Tatham, Charles Heathcote (1772-1842); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019); Harris, John (1931-); Stone, Reynolds (1909-1979)

1803

With a list of subscribers and author's preface dated 1799. Plates dated 1798 onwards. Bound with: 2. Etchings, representing fragments of antique Grecian and Roman architectural ornament / Charles Ta...

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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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Repertoire des artistes. Ou, Recueil de compositions d'architecture et d'ornemens antiques & modernes, de toute espece. Par divers auteurs, dont les principaux sont: Marot, Loire, Du Cerceau, Le Pautre, Cottart, Pierretz, Cotelle, Le Roux, Berain, &c. Avec un abrégé historique de la vie & des ouvrages de chacun de ces artistes (Vol 1)

Jombert, Charles-Antoine (1712-1784); Androuet du Cerceau, Jacques (1549-1584); Bérain, Jean (1640-1711); Cotelle, Jean (1607-1676); Cottart, Pierre (1650-1686); Le Pautre, Jean (1618-1682); Leroux, Jean Baptiste (1677-1746); Loir, Nicolas Pierre (1624-1679); Loir, Alexis (1640-1713); Marot, Jean (1619?-1679); Pierretz, Antoine le jeune; Babel, P E; Cochin, Charles Nicolas (1715-1790); Duclos, Claude; Le Pautre, Jean (1618-1682); Bosse, Abraham (1602-1676); Callot, Jacques (1592-1635); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019); Goldsmid-Stern-Salomons, David Lionel (1851-1925); Christie's London; Riviere & Son

1765

Œuvres d'architecture de Jean Le Pautre was published by Jombert in 1751. Title page vignettes, that in v. 1 after C. Cochin fils (dated 1762), that in v. 2 by Cl. Duclos. Each vol. has added engra...

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Repertoire des artistes. Ou, Recueil de compositions d'architecture et d'ornemens antiques & modernes, de toute espece. Par divers auteurs, dont les principaux sont: Marot, Loire, Du Cerceau, Le Pautre, Cottart, Pierretz, Cotelle, Le Roux, Berain, &c. Avec un abrégé historique de la vie & des ouvrages de chacun de ces artistes (Vol 2)

Jombert, Charles-Antoine (1712-1784); Androuet du Cerceau, Jacques (1549-1584); Bérain, Jean (1640-1711); Cotelle, Jean (1607-1676); Cottart, Pierre (1650-1686); Le Pautre, Jean (1618-1682); Leroux, Jean Baptiste (1677-1746); Loir, Nicolas Pierre (1624-1679); Loir, Alexis (1640-1713); Marot, Jean (1619?-1679); Pierretz, Antoine le jeune; Babel, P E; Cochin, Charles Nicolas (1715-1790); Duclos, Claude; Le Pautre, Jean (1618-1682); Bosse, Abraham (1602-1676); Callot, Jacques (1592-1635); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019); Goldsmid-Stern-Salomons, David Lionel (1851-1925); Christie's London; Riviere & Son

1765

Œuvres d'architecture de Jean Le Pautre was published by Jombert in 1751. Title page vignettes, that in v. 1 after C. Cochin fils (dated 1762), that in v. 2 by Cl. Duclos. Each vol. has added engra...

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Designs for vases and foliage, composed from the antique

Adam, Robert (1728-1792); Pastorini, Benedetto (1746-); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)

1821

Frontispiece: The Iliad of Homer translated by James Macpherson Esqr: Vol: I:st.

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The Islamic perspective : an aspect of British architecture and design in the 19th century

Darby, Michael; Victoria and Albert Museum

1983

Catalogue of an exhibition held at Victoria and Albert Museum, December 14th 1983-March 4 1984. Includes index.

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Recueil des dessins d'ornements d'architecture de la manufacture de Joseph Beunat à Sarrebourg, et à Paris, Rue St. Avoye, No 63. Contenant tout ce qui a rapport à la décoration des appartments, tels que panneaux, dessus de portes, dessus de glaces, frises, pilastres, montants, rosaces, entablements, moulures, ecoinsons, modillons, &.

Beunat, Joseph fl. 1805-1836[?]; Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019); Jennings, Benjamin; Montferrand, Auguste Ricard de (1786-1858); Giraud, Adolphe-Paul (1795-1864); Normand, Charles Pierre Joseph (1765-1840)

[1814?]

Publication date is speculative. Numerous editions produced after first edition in 1812 with 72 plates [Berlin Kat, 1387, 1812]. Bedford Collection copy A122 has 86 plates including the title page [no...

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Analysis of ornament : the characteristics of styles : an introduction to the study of the history of ornamental art : being an outline of a course of sixteen lectures on that subject, originally prepared for the government schools of design in the years 1848, 1849, 1850

Wornum, Ralph Nicholson (1812-1877); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019); Barclay, George

1856

Illustrative matter by or after E. Sheldrick, M. Rees, M.A. Sulman, A.F.F., G. Halliday, J.F. Swallow, A. Finden, H.M.S., G. Mateaux, M.M. Hutton, S.A. Wheeler, and H.M. Sparling. "... the engraved cu...

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Southill : a Regency house

Richardson, Sir A E (1880-1964); Whitbread, S (1904-); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)

1951

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Das Ornamentwerk des Daniel Marot in 264 Lichtdrucken Nachgebildet

Marot, Daniel (1661-1752); Jessen, Peter (1858-1926); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019); Prussia (Kingdom). Ministerium für Handel, Gewerbe und Öffentliche Arbeiten

1892

At head of title: Mit Unterstützung des K. Ministeriums für Handel und Gewerbe. Introduction signed: P. Jessen.

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