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Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)5
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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?]

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)

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; consisting of flowers, shells, figures, birds, insects, landscapes, shipping, beasts, vases, borders, &c. All adapt
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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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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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