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Total number of records: 39

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fireplaces39
architecture10
mantels9
decoration and ornament5
decoration and ornament, architectural5
stoves4
cheminees d'appartement3
furniture design3
furniture, neoclassical3
interior decoration3

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Great Britain2
England1

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Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)39
Delafosse, Jean-Charles (1734-1789)3
International Gypsylogical Foundation3
Adair, William2
Baldwin, Robert2
Carron Company2
Johnson, Francis2
Jones, Inigo (1573-1652)2
Kent, William (1685-1748)2
Sainsbury, M2

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Count Rumford's Experimental essays, political, economical, and philososphical. Essay IV. Of chimney fire-places, with proposals for improving them, to save Fuel; to render Dwelling-Houses more Comfortable and Salubrious, and, effectually to prevent Chimnies from Smoking

Rumford, Benjamin Graf von (1753-1814); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)

1796

Title from cover title of original wrappers. "The first volume of this work [i.e. 'Essays, political, economical, and philosophical'] will be completed in the course of two or three months; but, as ...

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Some designs of Mr. Inigo Jones and Mr. Wm. Kent (oversize)

Jones, Inigo (1573-1652); Kent, William (1685-1748); Vardy, John (1718-1765); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019); Shafto, Robert; Adair, William; Johnson, Francis

1744

Title within ornamental border. Engraved throughout by John Vardy. Edited by William Kent.

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The British architect: or, the builder's treasury of stair-cases. Containing, I. An easier, more intelligible, and expeditious Method of drawing the Five Orders, than has hitherto been published, by a Scale of Twelve equal Parts, free from those troublesome Divisions call'd Aliquot Parts. Shewing also how to giue up their Columns and Capitals. II. Likewise Stair-Cases, (those most useful, ornamental, and necessary Parts of a Building, though never before sufficiently described in any Book, Ancient or Modern); shewing their most convenient Situation, and the Form of their Ascending in the most grand Manner: With a great Variety of curious Ornaments, whereby any Gentleman may fix on what will suit him best, there being Examples of all Kinds; and necessary Directions for such Persons as are unacquainted with that Branch. III. Designs of Arches, Doors, and Windows. IV. A great Variety of New and Curious Chimney-Pieces, in the most elegant and modern Taste. V. Corbels, Shields, and other beautiful Decorations. VI. Several useful and necessary Rules of Carpentry; with the Manner of Truss'd Roofs, and the Nature of a splay'd circular Soffit, both in a streight and circular Wall, never published before. Together with Raking Cornices, Groins, and Angle Brackets, described. The Whole being illustrated with upwards of One Hundred Designs and Examples, curiously engraved by the best Hands on Sixty Folio Copper-Plates. By Abraham Swan, Architect (oversize)

Swan, Abraham; Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019); Sainsbury, Montagu Ely (1905-1998?)

M.DCC.LVIII. [1758]

In some copies the names of Meadows and Hitch and Hawes have been erased and replaced in ink with Mr. Brotherton and Mr. Buckland. Bedford Collection K086 has imprint with Mr. Brotherton and Mr. Buc...

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Designs for chimney-pieces, : with mouldings & bases at large; on 24 plates (oversize)

Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019); I. and J. Taylor's Architectural Library (London, England)

[1790?]

Imprint date based on record from British Architectural Library catalogue. Consists of 24 numbered engraved plates illustrating designs for mantels. A note on front flyleaf in John Bedford's hand ...

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Nouvelle iconologie historique ou attributs hierogliphyques... composés et arrangés de maniére qu'ils peuvent servir à toutes sortes des decorations (oversize, vol 2)

Delafosse, Jean-Charles (1734-1789); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019); International Gypsylogical Foundation

1771

Bedford Collection K097 copy comprises: vol 1 table indicative [title plate], 108 plates in 18 cahiers lettered A to S each with 6 plates; vol 2 has table indicative, T- Z each with 6 plates, then AA ...

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Nouvelle iconologie historique ou attributs hierogliphyques... composés et arrangés de maniére qu'ils peuvent servir à toutes sortes des decorations (oversize, vol 3)

Delafosse, Jean-Charles (1734-1789); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019); International Gypsylogical Foundation

1771

Bedford Collection K097 copy comprises: vol 1 table indicative [title plate], 108 plates in 18 cahiers lettered A to S each with 6 plates; vol 2 has table indicative, T- Z each with 6 plates, then AA ...

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