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Title(s)
A collection of designs for modern embellishments : suitable to parlours, dining & drawing rooms, chimney pieces, varandas, frizes &c. : on 25 plates / by C.A. Busby, architect.
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Published/Created
London : Published by J. Taylor, 59, High Holborn, [not before 1819]
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Physical Description
25 leaves of plates : all ill. ; 25 x 32 cm.
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Holdings
Rare Books and Manuscripts
NK2135 .B9 1819+ Oversize
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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Copyright Status
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Full YALE Library Record
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Classification
Books
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Notes
Paper watermarked "1819."
"This work was probably first published late 1807 or 1808. ECB, (English catalog of books), 1801-36, lists it (either as announced or published), in December 1807 and it is advertised in Dearn's 'The bricklayer's guide, 1808', as 'lately published by J. Taylor'"--British Architectural Library.
Engraved throughout, including title page (plate 1).
British Architectural Library. Early printed books, 1478-1840, 511
Archer, J. British domestic architecture, 444.1
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Subject Terms
Decoration and ornament -- Great Britain. | Decoration and ornament, Architectural -- Great Britain. | Interior decoration -- Great Britain -- 19th century. | Pattern books -- Great Britain -- 19th century. | Taylor, J. -- Publisher.
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Form/Genre
Aquatints -- 1819. | Aquatints -- Hand-colored -- 1819. | Engravings -- 1819. | Engravings -- Hand-colored -- 1819. | Pattern books. | Publisher's advertisements.
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