- Museum number
- 1992,0406.113
- Description
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Golden thoughts from golden fountains. Arranged in fifty two divisions. Illustrations by eminent artists, engraved by the Brothers Dalziel. London: Frederick Warne and Company, Bedford Street, Covent Garden, [1868]. London: Dalziel Brothers, engravers and printers, Camden Press. xvi, 290p. 6 plates. With two pages of publisher's titles bound at the end. All the five plates within the text are printed on the verso one a page, with un-paginated text printed upon each recto. In the list of Illustrations, the artists are given as (full names where found): Arthur Boyd Houghton, Edward Dalziel, Thomas Dalziel, John Lawson, Joseph Wolf, William Paton Burton, William Small, John Dawson Watson, George Dalziel, George John Pinwell, John William North. Printed at the end of the List: “Initial letters and Ornamental Designs by P. Hundley. Robin de Beaumont's notes regarding price and dating of this copy are written on the front endpaper verso. He has noted the following original plates are in the Dalziel Archive vol. XVIII nos. 1038-1096. The bookplate of Robin de Beaumont is on the front paste down.
Binding: Designed by William Ralston. The text is printed with light brown ink. Bevelled boards. Dark green endpapers and pastedowns. Blue sand-grain cloth. Both covers blocked identically in gold, red, black and in blind. The outer border has a ‘three dot and quarter fan’ repeating pattern, blocked in gold between two fillets - all in gold. The inner border has a repeating pattern in gold, consisting of: trefoils and twin stems, crossing stems and hatch leaves, with four gold dots interspersed. "Sea shells" are blocked in relief underneath each pair of leaves. The inner border has a single gold fillet. At the head, the tail and the sides, this fillet joins border fillets to form straps. Gold lettering-piece panels at the head and at the tail are rectangular, with six semi-circles blocked within and one at each end of the panel. Stem and dot patterns are blocked in red relief, surrounding the words: "/Golden Thoughts/ Golden Fountains/", which are blocked in relief (showing blue) within rectangular gold lettering-pieces. On the centre, a circle and four medallions are blocked, all formed by fillets and border decoration. Within each medallion, four "spade-shapes" and dots are blocked in red relief. Within the border of the circle, stem and quatrefoil decoration is blocked in relief in red. Within the circle, on the centre, the following are blocked: 1. "shells" in relief 2. a rectangular gold lettering-piece with dots and a single fillet on its head and on its tail. 3. small decoration is blocked in red relief. 4. the word: "/From/" is blocked in green relief within a gold lettering-piece. Curling stem decoration is blocked in black around the title words and the central circle. Signed "WR" in green relief as a monogram beneath the word “Fountains". The spine is blocked in gold, in black, in red and in relief. "Dog tooth and dots" perimeter decoration is blocked in gold. From the head downwards, the decoration is: a thin gold fillet; straps, semi-circles, dots - all in gold; small black decoration; the words: "/ Golden/ Thoughts/ from/ Golden/ Fountains/ [rule]/" are blocked in relief within a single gold lettering-piece panel, which has a single border fillet blocked in red; the word: "/ Illustrated/" is blocked in relief within the same panel, and it is also within a rectangle formed by two fillets blocked in relief; a quatrefoil is blocked in gold above and below a medallion, with gold and red decoration within; within the medallion, dots and a cross are blocked on in gold; small decoration in black and gold dots surround the quatrefoils and medallion; the words: "/ F. Warne & Co./" are blocked in relief within a rectangular gold lettering-piece, with a single thin border fillet blocked in relief; a gold fillet is blocked at the tail.
- Production date
- 1868
- Dimensions
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Height: 252 millimetres
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Thickness: 36 millimetres
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Width: 192 millimetres
- Curator's comments
- Ball, Douglas. Victorian publishers' bindings / (London : Library Association, c1985.) p. 159.
Jones, Gregory V. & Brown, Jane E. Victorian Binding Designer WR: William Ralston (1841-1911), not William Harry Rogers. In: The Book Collector, vol. 52, no2, Summer 2003, pp. 171-198, no. 3.
King, Edmund M.B. Victorian decorated trade bindings 1830-1880. London: The British Library, 2003.
Krupp, Andrea. Bookcloth in England and America, 1823-50. (Newcastle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 2008. )
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
Associated Title: Golden thoughts from golden fountains.
- Acquisition date
- 1992
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1992,0406.113
