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Archive Print Item: Bedford Collection D179

The English garden tour : a view into the past

Batey, Mavis; Lambert, David (1959-); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)

1990

Maps on endpapers.

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Archive Print Item: Bedford Collection A179

The modern builder's assistant; or, a concise epitome of the whole system of architecture; In which The various Branches of that excellent Study are establish'd on the most familiar Principles, And rendered adequate to every Capacity; Being useful to the Proficient, and easy to the Learner. Divided into three parts. Containing I. A Correct View of the Five Orders, explained in several Sheets of Letter-Press. II. Consisting of Regular Plans, Elevations, and Sections of Houses, in the most elegant and convenient Manner, either for the Reception of Noblemen, Gentlemen or Tradesmen with large or small Families, adapted to the Taste of Town or Country. To which Part is added, A great Variety of other Plans for Offices or Out-Houses adjoining to them of different Dimensions for Domestic Uses; Such as Kitchens, Wash-Houses, Malt-Houses, Bake-Houses, Brew-Houses, Dairies, Vaults, Stables, Coach-Houses, Dog-Kennels, &c. &c. Together with the Estimates of each Design, and Proper Instructions to the Workmen how to execute the same. III. Exhibiting (ornamental as well as plain) a Variety of Chimney-Pieces, Windows, Doors, Sections of Stair-Cases, Rooms, Halls, Saloons, &c. Skreens for Rooms, also Cielings, Piers, and Gate-Roofs, &c. &c. The whole beautifully engraved on eighty five folio copper plates, from the designs of William and John Halfpenny, Architects and Carpenters, Robert Morris, Surveyor, and and T. Lightoler, Carver

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

MDCCVLII [1757]

Titlepage in red and black.

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Archive Print Item: Bedford Collection B179

Regency style

Parissien, Steven; Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)

1992

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Archive Print Item: Bedford Collection C179

Rococo : art and design in Hogarth's England

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

[1984]

Catalogue of exhibition held at the Victoria and Albert Museum, 16 May - 30 September 1984.

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Archive Print Item: Bedford Collection G179

The smaller English house of the later Renaissance, 1660-1830, an account of its design, plan, and details

Richardson, Sir A E (1880-1964); Eberlein, Harold Donaldson; Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)

[1933]

Includes index.

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Archive Print Item: Bedford Collection K179

Catalogue of chandeliers, brackets, hall lamps and general gas fittings

Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019); Evered & Co.; Hammond & Hussey

1897

Trade catalogue.

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Archive Print Item: Bedford Collection J179

Catalogue of the William Bemrose collection to be sold by auction... at Elmhurst, Derby ... 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th & 5th of March 1909 ... by Messrs. T. Neale and Son of Nottingham

Bemrose, William (1831-1908); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019); T. Neale and Son; Bemrose & Sons

[1909]

Place of sale: Derby.

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Archive Print Item: Bedford Collection D386

Harewood : the life and times of an English country house

Kennedy, Carol; Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)

1982

Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-180) and index.

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Archive Print Item: Bedford Collection A511

English furniture, decoration, woodwork, and allied arts, during the last half of the seventeenth century, the whole of the eighteenth century and the early part of the nineteenth

Strange, Thomas Arthur; Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)

[1950?]

Cover title: English furniture, woodwork, decoration, etc., during the 18th century.

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Archive Print Item: Bedford Collection J624

On the instructions of the executors of the late Charles Skilton Esquire, the library, residual furniture and works of art at Whittingehame House, East Lothian... to be sold by auction on the premises on Monday 5 March 1990

Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019); Phillips Edinburgh (Auctioneers)

[1990]

Place of sale: East Lothian, Scotland.

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Archive Print Item: Bedford Collection K059

Examples of ornamental sculpture in architecture : drawn from the originals of bronze, marble, and terra cot[ta] in Greece, Asia Minor, and Italy (oversize)

Vulliamy, Lewis (1791-1871); Moses, Henry (1782?-1870); Prowett, Septimus (179-?-1867); Jennings, Robert (fl. 1812-1831?); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019); Architectural Library; Priestley and Weale; Chatfield & Coleman

[1823-1827]

Engraved title page. Plates drawn by Lewis Vulliamy, architecture, and engraved by Henry Moses. Plates dated 1823 to 1827.

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Archive Print Item: Bedford Collection Additional N001

Divers desseins

Androuet Du Cerceau, Jacques (1511-1586); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019); Parker, Richard Timothy George Mansfield 9th Earl of Macclesfield (1943-); Parker, Thomas 1st Earl of Macclefield (1666-1732); Parker, George 2nd Earl of Macclesfield (1697-1764); Parker, Thomas 3rd Earl of Macclefield (1723-1795); Sotheby's (Firm); Robin Halwas

c.1545-1565

66 plates hand numbered 1 to 67, folio 44 numbered on recto 44 and 45 on verso, comprising 73 etched designs for furniture and furnishings. French title taken from spine. Collation: forty-four print...

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