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Total number of records: 89

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John Evan Bedford Library of Furniture History10
Brotherton Collection4
Herbert Read Collection3
Leeds Russian Archive1

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SubjectCount
decoration and ornament, architectural89
architecture30
decoration and ornament23
furniture9
interior decoration9
architectural ironwork5
architecture, domestic5
fireplaces5
furniture design5
architecture, gothic4

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England10
Italy9
Great Britain5
Europe3
France3
Ireland2
Austria1
BaʻLabakk (Lebanon)1
Germany1
London (England)1

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)76
Gell, Sir William (1777-1836)4
Chambers, Sir William (1723-1796)3
Le Pautre, Jean (1618-1682)3
Adair, William2
Adam, James, 1732-17942
Adam, James, D. 17942
Adam, Robert, 1728-17922
Albertolli, Giocondo (1742-1839)2
Androuet Du Cerceau, Jacques (1549-1584)2

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From 16003
From 170026
From 180029
From 190025
From 20003

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Up to 179922
Up to 189935
Up to 199925
Up to latest3

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Gothic architecture, improved by rules and proportions. In many grand designs of columns, doors, windows, chimney-pieces, arcades, colonades, porticos, umbrellos, temples, and pavillions &c. With plans, elevations and profiles; geometrically explained. By B. & T. Langley. To which is added an historical dissertation on Gothic architecture

Langley, Batty (1696-1751); Langley, T (1702-1751); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)

[1790?]

The titlepage is engraved. A re-issue, with a new titlepage, of the plates of 'Ancient architecture, restored, and improved', London, 1742. I. and J. Taylor at the Architectural Library ca. 1789-1...

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Original designs in architecture (oversize)

Thomas, William (1800); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)

1783

With a 2-page list of subscribers. Plates by J. Roberts, E. Malpas, and T. Miller, after the author. Plates dated 1781

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Livre nouveau : ou, Regles des cinq ordres d'architecture

Vignola (1507-1573); Blondel, Jacques-François (1705-1774)

1767

Monsieur B. is Jacques François Blondel--Quérard, J.M. France littéraire. "Dédié aux amateurs des beaux arts, en 1767." Title page included in foliation. Plates 3-30 after those of Vignola, e...

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The age of Adam

Lees-Milne, James; Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)

[1947]

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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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Les ruines de Balbec : autrement dite Heliopolis dans la Coelosyrie

Wood, Robert (1717?-1771); Borra, Giovanni Battista (1712-1782); Fourdrinier, P (fl. 1720-1760); Major, Thomas (1720-1799)

1757

Text signed: Robert Wood. Plate III is in 2 parts making a total of 47 plates in all. Engravings by P. Fourdrinier and T. Major after drawings by G.B. Borra. Also issued in the same year in Engl...

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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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Gollandskiĭ domik

Tydman, L V

[1966?]

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Motive der deutschen Architektur des XVI, XVII, und XVIII Jahrhunderts : in historischer Anordnung (v. 1)

Lambert, André (1851-1929); Stahl, Eduard (1849-); Berlepsch-Valendas, Hans Eduard von (1849-1921)

1890

Contents: Abt. 1. Früh- und Hochrenaissance, 1500-1650 -- Abt. 2. Barock und Rokoko, 1560-1800.

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