print;
illustrated book;
bookplate
- Museum number
- 1936,1116.1573.1-20
- Description
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'The Nobility of Life', selected and edited by L. Valentine (London and New York: 1869), with twenty whole-page illustrations, additional vignettes for headings, headpieces and decorative borders; 192 numbered pages, illustrated in colour and black and white; letterpress text includes Preface, List of Illustrations, and list of other books published by Frederick Warne and Co; half-bound in red cloth and leather, lettered in gold on spine with book title; illustrations after Watson, Hundley, Le Jeune, Green, Wolf, Houghton, Selous, Buckman, Duncan, Pasquier, Watson, Walker, Poynter, Dalziel, Mahoney, Edwards, Skill, French, Wehnert, Zwecker.
Wood-engraving, stipple, engraving; whole-page illustrations printed in colours, border of title-page printed in gold; with black letterpress, part of title-page printed in red
- Production date
- 1869
- Dimensions
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Height: 257 millimetres (volume)
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Width: 205 millimetres (volume)
- $Inscriptions
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- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
Associated Title: The Nobility of Life
- Acquisition date
- 1936
- Acquisition notes
- Bookplate of Winifred M. Oliver-Jones, featuring coat of arms, pasted inside cover.
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1936,1116.1573.1-20
