print;
book;
book-illustration
- Museum number
- 1992,0406.138
- Description
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Ingelow, Jean. The Shepherd Lady, and other poems. Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1876. 59p. 1 plate. The frontispiece plate is a portrait of Jean Ingelow. In the List of illustrations, the engravers are given as: “ Linton [i.e. William James Linton], Anthony, Dalziel Brothers, and John Andrew and Son (under whose supervision they are printed).” The illustrators are listed as (full names): Arthur Hughes, Mary A. Hallock [i.e. probably Mary Hallock Foote], G Perkins [i.e. probably Granville Perkins], J. A. Mitchell [i.e. probably John Ames Mitchell], W. L. Sheppard [i.e. possibly William Ludwell Sheppard], F. O. C. Darley [i.e. Felix Octavius Carr Darley], Sol. Eytinge [i.e. Solomon Eytinge]. The illustration on page 35 is by W. L. Shepard. It has the caption: “/ Buy them, buy them, take them and try them./ Buy, maids, buy./” Robin de Beaumont's notes regarding price and dating of this copy are written on the half title page recto, on the front endpaper verso and on a separate paper slip. He has noted the following proof plate is in the Dalziel Brothers Archive: 1874 no. 44. The bookplate of Robin de Beaumont is on the front paste down.
Binding: Gilt edges. Bevelled boards. Dark green endpapers and pastedowns. Red moiré fine rib vertical-grain cloth. The lower cover is not blocked. The upper cover is blocked in gold, in black and in relief. A single black fillet is blocked on the borders, and, inside this a pattern of flowers, repeating is blocked in relief within black blocking. Each corner has a ‘lotus like’ leaf and stems, blocked in relief, surrounded by black. Inside this, more stem and leaf decoration in black rises up the sides from the centre tail. The title words: “/ The/ Shepherd/ Lady/” are blocked in gold towards the head. The words:”/ Jean Ingelow/” are blocked in gold within a rectangular cartouche, formed by two fillets in black, by a repeating dots, blocked in gold, and by a single gold fillet. The spine is blocked in gold and in black. At the head and at the tail, leaf and stem patters are blocked in black. Within a gold cartouche blocked along the spine, the words: “/ The Shepherd Lady/” are blocked in relief within the cartouche.
- Production date
- 1876
- Dimensions
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Height: 240 millimetres
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Thickness: 17 millimetres
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Width: 178 millimetres
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
Associated Title: The Shepherd Lady.
- Acquisition date
- 1992
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1992,0406.138