illustrated book;
print
- Museum number
- 1939,0306.15.1-4
- Description
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'The smuggler's leap. A legend of Thanet. By Thomas Ingoldsby. Illustrated by Jane E. Cook, author of "The sculptor caught napping"' (London, The Autotype Company) 1877; containing 3 photomechanical images of paper-cut images by Sane Cook, each print with two scenes. Together with frontispiece showing papercut scene with a man leaning on a fence talking to a young woman, other figures around them, below a second scene shows men rolling barrels out of a ship, title-page letterpress in black and red, with wood-engraved vignette of a woman on a sheel with four cherubs above, wood-engraved ornaments, headpiece and intial letter within the text. Bound in green bookcloth, with gold and black tooling on cover showing title within ornamental border, same border on back cover, grey endpapers, gilded edges.
Photomechanical prints, wood-engraving
- Production date
- 1877
- Dimensions
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Height: 310 millimetres (approx. sheet size of each page)
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Width: 240 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Cataloguing supported by the Elizabeth Cayzer Charitable Trust
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
Associated Title: The smuggler's leap
- Acquisition date
- 1939
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1939,0306.15.1-4
