print;
book;
book-illustration
- Museum number
- 1992,0406.148
- Description
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J., M. Historical tales. With twenty illustrations by George Thomas. London: Routledge, Warne, and Routledge, Farringdon Street; and 58 Walker Street, New York, [1861]. Unpaginated. [166p.] 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: Gilt edges. Yellow endpapers and pastedowns. Green dot and horizontal rig-grain cloth. With the exception of the central vignette, both covers are blocked identically on the. Three fillets are blocked in blind on the borders. Straps are blocked inside these, which interlock on the centre sides, head and tail. Inside this, small flower and leaf and stem decoration is blocked in relief on each corner, on the centre, the tail and the sides. Within the central octagon, small curling stems and buds are blocked in relief. On the upper cover, the octagon is delineated by three fillets, with gold hatch being blocked between the two inner fillets. On the centre of the upper cover, there is a medallion with hatch on its perimeter and ‘two scroll and point motifs at its head and at its tail – all in gold. Within the medallion, the title: “/ Historical / tales/” are blocked in relief within rectangular gold lettering-pieces, each of which has a single fillet blocked in relief on its perimeter. These words are surrounded by small curling stems and buds, picked out in relief. The spine is blocked in gold. Two fillets are blocked across the spine in blind at the head and at the tail. Near the head, there is an elaborate panel blocked in gold, which has small stem and bud decoration blocked in relief within it. Also within the panel, the title words: “/ Historical/ tales/” are blocked in relief within a single elongated scroll-shaped gold lettering-piece.
- Production date
- 1861
- Dimensions
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Height: 202 millimetres
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Thickness: 15 millimetres
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Width: 142 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
Associated Title: Historical Tales.
- Acquisition date
- 1992
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1992,0406.148
