print;
book;
book-illustration
- Museum number
- 1992,0406.296
- Description
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[Enoch Arden. No imprint or date.] 25 plates pasted on backing sheets. [A specimen book?] Robin de Beaumont’s notes state: ‘25 proof engravings of Arthur Hughes’s illustrations to Tennyson’s ‘Enoch Arden’, Moxon 1866. In the 1866 publisher’s binding. From the Library of Lord Brooke of Cumnor [i.e. Henry Brooke], Leslie [Leonard] Brooke’s son.’ Plate 9 in this copy is reproduced on page 21 of the 1866 edition. This has the line underneath it: ‘ But when the last of these moments came, …’ Plate 10 in this copy is reproduced on page 24 of the 1866 edition, and is captioned: ‘Ev’n to the last dip of the vanishing sail…’ .The bookplate of Robin de Beaumont is on the upper pastedown.
Binding: The cover design is after Arthur Hughes. Text sewn on two tapes. Gilt edges. Bevelled boards. Yellow endpapers and pastedowns. Blue pebble-grain cloth. Full gilt to both covers and spine. On the lower cover, stalks and ears of corn are blocked in gold between ‘branch like’ fillets blocked on the borders. A diagonal pattern is interspersed with butterflies, with a windmill’s sail blocked in gold on the centre. A single bell is blocked on each centre side, and on the centre head and the centre tail. The upper cover has sea motifs – sea shells on corners; ship’s chains and ropes on the borders; a ‘fish net' diagonal pattern with many fish ‘caught’ inside. An anchor is blocked on the centre. A bell and its wheel is blocked on the centre of each side and on the centre head and centre tail. The spine is blocked in gold. Along the spine, the words: ‘/ Proof plates to Enoch Arden./’ are blocked in gold.
- Production date
- 1866 (Assumed to be contemporary with the text.)
- Dimensions
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Height: 223 millimetres
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Thickness: 12 millimetres
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Width: 173 millimetres
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- Curator's comments
- The design blocked in gold on both covers of this copy is the same as for the copy at P&D register no. 1992,0406.371.
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
Associated Title: Enoch Arden
- Acquisition date
- 1992
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1992,0406.296