print;
book;
book-illustration
- Museum number
- 1992,0406.129
- Description
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Hood, Tom. Jingles and jokes for the little folks. Illustrated by C.H.Bennett [i.e. Charles Henry Bennett], W. Brunton [i.e William Brunton], Paul Gray, and T. Morten [i.e Thomas Morten]. London: Cassell, Petter and Galpin, Ludgate Hill, E.C. [1865]. London: Cassell, Petter and Galpin, Belle Sauvage Works, Ludgate Hill, E.C. vii, 9-76p. With four pages of publisher's titles bound at the the end. The illustrations are signed with the monograms or the signatures of Paul Gray, Thomas Morten, William Brunton, Charles Henry Bennett. They are signed: “Linton” or “Linton Sc.” [i.e William James Linton]. Robin de Beaumont's notes regarding price and dating of this copy are written on the front endpaper verso. The bookplate of Robin de Beaumont is on the front pastedown.
Binding: The design is by John Leighton. Bevelled boards. Gilt edges. Green sand-grain cloth. Both covers blocked identically, in gold on the upper, in blind and in relief on the lower. The design features a border of joined flowers. Then a gold fillet is blocked on the borders, with repeating dots blocked in relief inside. Inside this, a thin gold fillet joins six gold medallions blocked on the corners and on the sides. The four corner medallions contain stars with faces and arms and legs picked out in relief. The two medallions on the sides contain a snail and a butterfly in relief within hatch gold. Sunflowers, with faces and leaves, are blocked above and below the two medallions on the sides. Above the centre, a gold lettering-piece shaped as a clock, has face-like features and roman numerals blocked in relief within. The large central medallion is blocked in gold. In the border of the medallion, the words: "/Jingles and jokes for little folks/" are blocked in relief. The words: "/Tom Hood/" are blocked in gold. The pendulum of the clock forms the "o" of Tom [Hood]. On the centre tail, the weights of the clock press down upon a book, and they have trapped one of the "little folk" inside the book. Signed "JL" in gold as separate letters underneath the book. The spine is blocked in gold and in relief. At the head and at the tail, Small triangles are blocked in relief and gold dots are blocked within each triangle – both within rectangular vertical hatch gold lettering-pieces; and each has a single gold fillet blocked in gold above and below. The title: “Jingles & jokes for little folks/” is blocked in relief along the spine, within a horizontal hatch gold lettering-piece shaped as a cartouche. A sunflower and two leaves are blocked at each end of the cartouche, Each sunflower has facial features picked out in relief. The National Library of Scotland copy is at shelf mark K.194.a. Text sewn on two sawn-in cords. Gilt edges. Bevelled boards. Purple sand-grain cloth. The covers are blocked as for the BL copy. The spin is blocked in gold and in relief; the title: "/ Jingles & Jokes for Little Folks/" is blocked in relief along the spine within a gold hatch cartouche, with a sunflower and hatch gold leaves blocked at each end of the cartouche. Each sunflower has a "face" blocked in relief within it. At the head and at the tail, vertical gold hatch is blocked, with triangles, and gold dots within it, all between two gold fillets.
- Production date
- 1865
- Dimensions
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Height: 197 millimetres
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Thickness: 11 millimetres
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Width: 153 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
Associated Title: Jingles and jokes for the little folks.
- Acquisition date
- 1992
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1992,0406.129
