Main entry:

Nicholson, Peter, 1765-1844.

Title & Author:

The practical cabinet-maker, upholsterer, and complete decorator / by Peter & Michael Angelo Nicholson ; with numerous illustrative engravings.

Publication:

London: H. Fisher, Son, & Co. 38, Newgate Street, 1826-7.

Description:

x,152, 12 pages, [103] leaves of plates : illustrations (some colour) ;

Notes:
Engraved tp by MA Nicholson and Dick. Other steel engraved plates drawn by M.A. Nicholson and engraved by W. Kelsall, R. Tingle, J. Tingle, W. Symns, R. Roffe, J. Tyrer, A. Dick, J. Allen, Cosmo Armstrong, Lowry, J. Archer, H. Summons, J. Henshall, T. Dale, B. Winkles, and S. Williams. 35 plates hand-coloured.
Bedford copy A086 has list of plates [2 pages], recommendations by cabinet-makers, upholsterers, and decorators dated London, June 1826 [1 page, with transcriptions], introduction by Peter Nicholson dated May 1st, 1826 [v-x], text 11-152, and glossary [12 pages].
UkLeU
Plates in Bedford copy A086 are dated between May 1826 and September 1827.
U.LeU
Added title page engraved, with ornamental border, dated 1826.
Plates dated 1826-27.
Introduction by Christopher Gilbert to facsimile reprint of the first edition of The practical cabinet-maker (Wakefield: EP Publishing, 1973).
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection A086: From the John Evan Bedford Library, gifted in 2019. Twenty-first-century pictorial bookplate on front pastedown: John Evan Bedford. Former reference: FEo/27. MS. annotation by bookseller on front flyleaf.
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection A086: 4 pages of loose A4 notes on this item, its plates, and the V&A first edition for Christopher Gilbert's reprint in 1973 and 2 small pages of loose notes totalling the number of plates, all in John Bedford's hand; loose photocopy of the introduction by Christopher Gilbert to his 1973 reprint.
Library copy: some of the plates are hand-coloured.

Subject:

Geometry Problems, exercises, etc.
Furniture design.
Furniture Decoration and Ornament.
Upholstery.
Interior decoration.
Géométrie Problèmes et exercices.
Meubles Design.
Décoration intérieure.
interior decoration.
interior design.
Geometry.
Cabinetwork
Furniture

Form/genre:

Problems and exercises.

Added entries:

Bedford, John Victor, 1941-2019, former owner.
Nicholson, MA, d.1842, add. author.
Nicholson, Michael Angelo, d. 1842.
Great Britain England London.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 27032
Call No.: 8222; ID:88-B13
Status: Available