print;
book;
book-illustration
- Museum number
- 1992,0406.101
- Description
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White, Lewis Borrett. English sacred poetry of the olden time. Collected and Arranged By the Rev. White. London: The Religious Tract Society; 56 Paternoster Row, 65 St. Pauls Churchyard; and 164 Piccadilly, 1864. London: R. Clay, Son and Taylor, printers, Bread Street Hill. Xvi, 190p. The plate between pages 6 and 7 is after George Du Mauier, entitled: “The Abbey Walk”. In the [List of] Illustrations, the illustrators are given as (full names): Henry Noel Humphreys, Thomas Dewell Scott, George Du Maurier, John William North, Percival Skelton, Richard Percival Leitch, Charles Green, John Dawson Watson, Joseph Wolf, John Tenniel, Frederick Walker. All engraved by Edward Whymper. Robin de Beaumont's notes regarding price and dating of this copy are written on the front endpaper recto. The bookplate of Robin de Beaumont is on the front paste down.
Binding: Designed by John Leighton. Gilt edges. Bevelled boards. Beige endpapers and pastedowns. Binder’s ticket on lower pastedown: "/ Bound by/ Westleys/ & Co/ London./". [Ball no. 103C.] Green pebble-grain cloth. Both covers blocked identically in gold and relief. On the borders, there is an outer border of repeating tracery and flowers. Five gold fillets are blocked on the inner borders with gold hatch blocked between numbers four and five. More fillets are blocked in blind and in relief inside this, which surround the four medallions blocked on the corners of the inner border Poets’ names are blocked in relief within each medallion. They are: "/Spenser/ Milton/ Ken/ Herbert/". An elaborate central medallion is formed by several gold fillets. It contains the title. The words "English" and "of the olden time" are blocked in gold. The words "sacred" and "poetry" are blocked in relief, inside rectangular gold lettering pieces. Signed "JL" in gold as separate letters at bottom of the tracery of the medallion. The spine is blocked in gold. A single gold fillet is blocked on the perimeter. From the head downwards, the decoration is: tracery in gold; a gold medallion showing a crown within; the title is blocked within a panel formed by two gold fillets and gold hatch between them ; the title: "/ English/ sacred/ poetry/ of the/ olden time/Chaucer/ to/ Ken/" is blocked in gold and in relief; the words: "sacred" and "poetry" are blocked in relief within rectangular gold lettering-pieces; the words "Chaucer to Ken" are blocked in relief within a cup-shaped gold lettering-piece; tracery blocked in gold forms a medallion, and a rectangle; a gold medallion with stars blocked within it; gold tracery is blocked at the tail; the medallions blocked at the head, the middle and at the tail are surrounded by line decoration, blocked in relief.
- Production date
- 1864
- Dimensions
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Height: 225 millimetres
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Thickness: 27 millimetres
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Width: 165 millimetres
- Curator's comments
- For descriptive details of the binder’s ticket, see: Ball, Douglas. ‘Victorian publishers’ bindings’. (London, Library Association, 1985), Appendix E, ‘Nineteenth Century Edition binders’ Signatures’, p. 191.
The British Library copy is at shelf mark 3441.e.72.
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- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
Associated Title: English sacred poetry of the olden time.
- Acquisition date
- 1992
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1992,0406.101
