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A Series, containing forty-four engravings in colours, of fashionable furniture : consisting of beds, sofas, ottomans, window-curtains, chairs, tables, book-cases, &c. &c.
Athenaeum of Philadelphia - British Imprints 1823 Series
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Furniture--Pictorial works.
- Furniture.
- Interior decoration.
- Physical Description:
- [2], 3-52 p., [44] leaves of plates : col. ill. ; 25 cm.
- Other Title:
- Upholsterer's and cabinet-maker's Repository
- Place of Publication:
- London : R. Ackermann, at his Repository of Arts, No. 101, Strand, 1823.
- Notes:
- "Diggens, printer, St. Ann's Lane, London"--T.p. verso.
- Most of the plates have imprint: R. Ackermann's "Repository of Arts &c.", and are dated between 1816-1823.
- Furniture designs are by various designers, "Mr. Stafford, of Bath" is specifically mentioned in the introduction.
- Illustrations: 44 engravings, coloured aquatint.
- Binding: Half bound in black leather and paper. Label on the front board reads as: Volume second. Upholsterer's and cabinet-maker's Repository: containing forty-four coloured plates. Price £2f. Published at R. Ackermann's Repository, Strand, London.
- Contains publishers catalogue in back on half sheets--[8] p.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Dornsife/VSA.
- Cited in:
- Winkler, Gail Caskey. Capricious fancy
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