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Total number of records: 18

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furniture design18
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architecture11
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perspective7
decoration and ornament, architectural5
decoration and ornament4
cabinetwork2
architect-designed furniture1
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Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)18
Sheraton, Thomas (1751-1806)7
Chippendale, Thomas (1718-1779)4
Newton, James (1760-1829)4
Chippendale, Thomas, 1718-17793
Wenzel, Gottfried Traugott3
Androuet Du Cerceau, Jacques (1511-1586)1
Boucher, Francois (1703-1770)1
Cramer, J B (1771-1858)1
Delafosse, Jean Baptiste (1721-1806)1

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The cabinet-maker and upholsterer's drawing-book. In three parts. By Thomas Sheraton, cabinet-maker (Vol 2)

Sheraton, Thomas (1751-1806); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019); Newton, James (1760-1829)

1791-1794 [1793 entered at Stationers Hall]

With a final errata leaf. With 4 subscribers lists: after the contents, at end of first part, after the Appendix, and after the Accompaniment. In 3 parts: Part I dated 1791, Part II (vol ii on tit...

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The cabinet-maker and upholsterer's drawing-book. In three parts. By Thomas Sheraton, cabinet-maker (Vol I)

Sheraton, Thomas (1751-1806); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019); Newton, James (1760-1829)

1791-1794 [1793 entered at Stationers Hall]

With a final errata leaf. With 4 subscribers lists: after the contents, at end of first part, after the Appendix, and after the Accompaniment. In 3 parts: Part I dated 1791, Part II (vol ii on tit...

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The cabinet-maker and upholsterer's drawing-book. In three parts. By Thomas Sheraton, cabinet-maker

Sheraton, Thomas (1751-1806); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019); Newton, James (1760-1829)

1791-1794 [1793 entered at Stationers Hall]

With a final errata leaf. With 4 subscribers lists: after the contents, at end of first part, after the Appendix, and after the Accompaniment. In 3 parts: Part I dated 1791, Part II (vol ii on tit...

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The cabinet-maker and upholsterer's drawing-book. In three parts. By Thomas Sheraton, cabinet-maker

Sheraton, Thomas (1751-1806); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019); Newton, James (1760-1829)

1791-1794 [1793 entered at Stationers Hall]

With a final errata leaf. With 4 subscribers lists: after the contents, at end of first part, after the Appendix, and after the Accompaniment. In 3 parts: Part I dated 1791, Part II (vol ii on tit...

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A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole, youngest son of Sir Robert Walpole Earl of Orford, at Strawberry-Hill near Twickenham, Middlesex. With an inventory of the furniture, pictures, curiosities, &c

Walpole, Horace (1717-1797); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019); Sandby, Paul (1731-1809); Walpole, Horace (1717-1797); Rose, Samuel; Kirgate, Thomas (1734?-1810)

MDCCLXXXIV. [1784]

Anonymous. By Horace Walpole. Variant: with added titlepage printed in black, red and blue. Bedford Collection copy D501 has black and white engraved frontispiece title page; curiosities added sin...

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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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Box of loose printed single sheets comprising plates of furniture and ornamental designs from a variety of publishers (12 items)

Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019); Le Pautre, Jean (1618-1682); Huet, Jean-Baptiste (1745-1811); Faber, John (1695?-1756); Göz, Gottfried Bernhard (1708-1774); Cramer, J B (1771-1858); Wyman & Sons; Marsh, Jones & Cribb (Leeds); Laurie & Whittle

between 1650 and 1899

A box of 12 loose printed single sheets including plates of furniture, architectural designs, portraits, a cover for sheet music, some of which are taken from publications. Title supplied by catalogu...

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Album de dessins de meubles, table à coulisses (dite Bouillotte), table à coulisses anglaise, plans de billards, d'escaliers &c. : representant un grand nombre de figures, avec principes d'exécution : ouvrage entièrement neuf et de la plus grande utilité. : Dédié A.M.M. les menuisiers, ébenistes at aux Amis des Arts (oversize)

Lefèvre-Chauveaux, Alphonse (1789-); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019); Hoën, J Bernard

1843

Bedford Collection K053 has 42 leaves of plates, including 7 folded, plus a title plate and portrait of A Lefèvre-Chauveaux, lithographed by Chatenet Angouleme. The [42] lithographed plates consist a...

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Architects' designs for furniture

Lever, Jill; Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019); Royal Institute of British Architects

1982

"Published in association with the Royal Institute of British Architects drawings collection." Includes bibliographical references (pages 141-142) and indexes.

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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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The gentleman & cabinet-maker's director : reprint of the third edition with a biographical sketch and photographic supplement of Chippendale-type furniture

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

1966

"Unabridged and unaltered republication of the third ed. published by the author in London in 1762"--Title page verso. Facsimile reprint. With title: The gentleman and cabinet-maker's director : bei...

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[Collection of 18th century designs for furniture and architectural ornamentation from the library of Anton Possenbacher, court furniture-maker in Munich] (oversize)

Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019); Possenbacher, Anton (1842-1920); Will, Johan Martin (1727-1806); Delafosse, Jean Baptiste (1721-1806); Lalonde, Richard de (1735-1808); Boucher, François (1703-1770); Marlborough Rare Books

[various dates]

161 engraved plates of neoclassical designs for furniture by French designers including Lalonde, Delafosse, and Boucher, and German designers including J T Hauer, published during the mid 18th century...

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