print;
book;
book-illustration
- Museum number
- 1992,0406.121
- Description
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Gray, Thomas. An Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard. London: Joseph Cundall, 168, New Bond Street; Sampson Low and Son, 47 Ludgate Hill, 1854. 24p. in the [List of] Illustrations, the artists are given as: Myles Birket Foster, A Lady, George Thomas [i.e. possibly George Housman Thomas]. The engravers are listed as: James Cooper [i.e. possibly James Davis Cooper], J. W. Whymper [i.e. Josiah Wood Whymper], W. T. Green, William Linton [i.e. possibly William James Linton], William Measom [i.e. possibly William Frederick Measom], Horace Harral, Thomas Bolton, A. J. Mason [i.e. possibly Abraham John Mason]. The illustration on page 13 is after 'A Lady'. 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: Gilt edges. Bevelled boards. Yellow endpapers or pastedowns. Binder’s ticket on lower pastedown:”/ Bound by/ Bone & Son./ [rule]/ 76, Fleet Street/ London./” [Ball no. 17A.] Green morocco vertical-grain cloth. Both covers have identical fillets and border patterns, blocked in blind, which form the central panel. Small decoration is blocked in blind and in relief on each inner corner. On the upper cover the central vignette is blocked in gold, with the title on the centre: “/ Gray’s Elegy [in a semi-circle]/ written / in a/ Country Churchyard./” (This is the same block as on the upper cover of 1996,1104.18.) A small cross is blocked above the centre, and a small ‘three bud heads’ decorative device is blocked below the centre. The spine has the title blocked in gold near the head: “/ Gray’s/ Elegy./” There are small decorative devices blocked in gold above and below the title.
- Production date
- 1854
- Dimensions
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Height: 204 millimetres
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Thickness: 12 millimetres
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Width: 136 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.
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
Associated Title: An Elegy written in a Country Churchyard.
- Acquisition date
- 1992
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1992,0406.121
