print;
book;
book-illustration
- Museum number
- 1992,0406.157
- 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 51 is signed with the monogram of John Everett Millais, accompanying the start of the poem: “Moses on the Nile”. 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 Francis Gray Smart is pasted on the upper endpaper recto; the bookplate of W.H. Streatfeild is on the upper pastedown.
Binding: The design is possibly by Albert Henry Warren. Bevelled boards. Gilt edges. Yellow endpapers and pastedowns. Blue morocco horizontal-grain cloth. Both covers are blocked identically with an overall ‘Persian style’ design, blocked in hatch gold, with elaborate decoration being picked out in relief. The spine is blocked in gold and in relief. A single gold fillet is blocked on the perimeter. Flower and stem patterns are blocked in relief within a rectangular hatch gold lettering-piece at the head and at the tail, each of which has a single gold fillet blocked above and below it across the spine. From the head to the tail, elaborate patterns of stems, flowers, are blocked in hatch gold. The central gold lettering-piece is shaped with ‘oriental’ curved gold fillet borders. The title words: “/ Lays/ of the/ Holy/ Land/” are picked out in ‘double’ lettering blocked in relief. Signed “W” in gold at the tail. 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: 233 millimetres
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Thickness: 34 millimetres
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Width: 177 millimetres
- 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
- 1992,0406.157
