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Total number of records: 14

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Brotherton Collection2
Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society2
John Evan Bedford Library of Furniture History1
Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture1
Ripon Cathedral1

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architecture14
church architecture4
castles2
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screens (church decoration)2
building1
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cabinetwork1

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Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)4
Byrne, William (1743-1805)4
Hearne, Thomas (1744-1817)4
Heath, James (1757-1834)2
Landseer. John (1769-1852)2
Lowry, Wilson (1762-1824)2
Medland, Thomas2
Middiman, Samuel (1750-1831)2
Sparrow, J T2
York Minster2

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Antiquities of Great Britain : illustrated in views of monasteries, castles, and churches, now existing (v.1)

Hearne, Thomas (1744-1817); Byrne, William (1743-1805); Heath, James (1757-1834); Landseer. John (1769-1852); Middiman, Samuel (1750-1831); Medland, Thomas; Sparrow, J T; Lowry, Wilson (1762-1824)

1807

Printer statement from t.p. versos and colophons. Added engraved full pictorial t.p. in v. I, dated 2 Feb. 1786, engraved by J. Heath and J. Landseer after T. Hearne. Vol. I: [6] p., LI numbered lea...

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Antiquities of Great Britain : illustrated in views of monasteries, castles, and churches, now existing (v.2)

Hearne, Thomas (1744-1817); Byrne, William (1743-1805); Heath, James (1757-1834); Landseer. John (1769-1852); Middiman, Samuel (1750-1831); Medland, Thomas; Sparrow, J T; Lowry, Wilson (1762-1824)

1807

Printer statement from t.p. versos and colophons. Added engraved full pictorial t.p. in v. I, dated 2 Feb. 1786, engraved by J. Heath and J. Landseer after T. Hearne. Vol. I: [6] p., LI numbered lea...

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Le guide du tapissier, de l'ʹebʹeniste, et de tous ceux qui travaillent en meubles; comme aussi celui des honnêtes-gens qui en font faire:... Le tout reprʹesentʹe en 200 planches proprement gravʹees; ... Par Thomas Chippendale (oversize)

Chippendale, Thomas (1718-1779); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)

1762

Published according to an act of Parliament 1753, 1759, 1760, 1761 1762 etc. Designed and drawn by Thomas Chippendale, engraved by T Miller, Hemerich, M Darly, C Lowe, I Taylor, B Clowes, W Foster, I...

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Views and interiors of English palaces

Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019); Pyne, W H (1769-1843); Evelegh, George

1825

The plates are a selection from W. H. Pyne, The history of the royal residences of Windsor Castle, St. James's Palace, Carlton House, Kensington Palace, Hampton Court, Buckingham House, and Frogmore, ...

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A parallel of the ancient architecture with the modern : in a collection of ten principal authors who have written upon the five orders, viz. Palladio and Scamozzi, Serlio and Vignola, D. Barbaro and Cataneo, L. B. Alberti and Viola, Bullant and De Lorme, compared with one another. The three Greek orders, Dorick, Ionick, and Corinthian, comprise the first part of this treatise. And the two Latin, Tuscan and Composita, the latter

Fréart, Roland sieur de Chambray (1606-1676); Alberti, Leon Battista (1404-1472); Evelyn, John (1620-1706); Wotton, Sir Henry (1568-1639)

1723

Title in red and black; title-vignette; head-and tail-pieces; initials. Engraved frontispiece reads: A parallel of architecture both ancient & moderne, by Roland Freart, sr de Chambray.

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A letter to Viscount Milton on the restoration of York Minster and the proposed removal of the choir screen

Harcourt, William Vernon (1789-1871); Fitzwilliam, Charles William Wentworth-Fitzwilliam earl (1786-1857)

1830

"W. Hargrove and Co., Printers, Herald-Office, York."--Colophon. "Postscript [written in response to A letter addressed to the subscribers to the restoration of the choir of York Minster, by a Subsc...

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Outlines of five lectures on castellated architecture

Bruce, J Collingwood (1805-1892)

1847

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A second letter addressed to the subscribers to the restoration of the choir of York Minster : on the subject of the proposed removal of the organ screen

Wellbeloved, Charles (1769-1858)

1830

Ascribed by some to Charles Wellbeloved; Dict. nat. biog. does not confirm this assertion, but does make it plausible. Includes bibliographical references.

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A complete body of architecture. Adorned with plans and elevations, from original designs. By Isaac Ware, Esq. of His Majesty's board of works. In which are interspersed some designs of Inigo Jones, never before published (oversize)

Ware, Isaac (1704?-1766); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019); Guest, John; Scott, Arthur Finley

MDCCLXVII. [1767]

Titlepage in red and black. Comprises books I-X [1-10]. The last 2 leaves contain the index. A re-issue of the sheets of the Osborne and Shipton 1756 edition, with a different titlepage, and sig...

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Building Technique

1966-1973

This file contains items relating to buildings and construction techniques, and includes photocopies of maps showing the location of aisle-trusses in Welsh buildings, and aisled buildings in Yorkshire...

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Antiquities of Great Britain : illustrated in views of monasteries, castles, and churches, now existing

Hearne, Thomas (1744-1817); Byrne, William (1743-1805)

1786-1807

Plates, dated 1778-1806 also issued separately.

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