print;
book;
book-illustration
- Museum number
- 1992,0406.156
- Description
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Lays of the Holy Land from ancient and modern Poets. With Illustrations from original Photographs and Drawings. London: James Nisbet and Co., Berners Street, 1858. Edinburgh: Printed by R. & R. Clark. [8], 311p. In the ‘List of Illustrations’, the artists are listed (full names given) as : Myles Birket Foster, Frederick Richard Pickersgill, Thomas Bolton Dalziel, William Harvey, John Tenniel, Edward Duncan, A. Madot [possibly Adolphus M. Madot], John Everett Millais, Thomas Seddon, Joseph Wolf, J. H. Powell, John Richard Clayton, William Leighton Leitch, Henry Warren, G. Dodgson, [probably George Haydock Dodgson] , Henry Lejeune, Edward Corbould, Richard Principal Leitch. The engravers are listed as: Edmund Evans, Dalziel Brothers, W. Palmer [probably William James Palmer], J. Cooper [possibly James Davis Cooper], W. T. Green, Edward Morison Wimperis. The illustration on page 57 accompanies the start of the poem “The desert journey”, and is signed: “. T. Seddon del.”. Robin de Beaumont’s notes regarding price and dating of this copy are on front endpaper verso. He has noted the following proof plates are in the Dalziel Brothers Archive: 1857 nos. 971-1015. The bookplate of Robin de Beaumont is on the front paste down.
Binding: Bevelled boards. Gilt edges, gauffered with a pattern of diamonds and dots. The turn-ins are blocked in gold with a repeating stem and flower pattern. Yellow endpapers and pastedowns. Dark brown/ black morocco. Stamped on the upper pastedown at the tail: “/ Bound by Edmonds and Remnants./” Both covers are blocked identically in blind and in relief. Two fillets are blocked in blind on the borders, with a ‘dentelle’ pattern blocked just inside these. The central rectangle is formed by four fillets blocked in blind, which also intersect at the centre head, the centre tail and the centre sides. A large central diamond is formed by these fillets, and within it, nine diamonds are blocked, four of which have a ‘chequerboard’ design blocked in relief; and five of which have four-pointed leaves. The spine is blocked in The spine is blocked in gold and I blind. It is divided into seven panels by cords with two fillets blocked in blind across the spine on either side of the each cord. Panel two has the title words: “/ Lays/ of the/ Holy/ Land/” blocked in gold. This clearly intended to be a de luxe binding, possibly as presentation copies. The British Library copy is at shelf mark 1347.h.10. It has no original covers.
- Production date
- 1858
- Dimensions
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Height: 230 millimetres
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Thickness: 37 millimetres
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Width: 177 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
Associated Title: Lays of the Holy Land from ancient and modern Poets.
- Acquisition date
- 1992
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1992,0406.156
