print;
book;
book-illustration
- Museum number
- 1992,0406.174
- Description
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Lloyd, Bitha. The Flower of Christian Chivalry . With illustrations by J. D. Watson [ i. e John Dawson Watson]. London : James Hogg & Sons, [1863]. London: Harrild, printer. 314p. 4 plates. With six pages of publisher’s titles bound at the end. This is number 12 in the series “Books with a meaning; a new series of illustrated books for young readers.” The frontispiece is captioned: “The beginning of a great work. The Abbé de l’Epée and the Sister Mutes. – Page 154.” It is signed “J. D. W.” and “Dalziel”. Robin de Beaumont's notes regarding price and dating of this copy are written on the front endpaper verso.
Binding: Gilt edges. Yellow endpapers and pastedowns. Blue dot and horizontal-line grain cloth. The lower cover is blocked in blind only. Two fillets are blocked on the borders. A pattern of leaves and stems is blocked in relief on the corners, and on the sides. An arabesque is formed by groups of two curling fillets, blocked in blind. The upper cover is blocked in gold and in blind and in relief. Two gold fillets are blocked on the borders. Inside this, branches are blocked on the sides, which then curl at the head and at the tail, with small stems, leaves and flowers sprouting from them. The inner border is framed by horizontal gold hatch, blocked between two gold fillets. Eight ‘acanthus like’ large leaves are blocked onto this frame, two at the head the tail, and two on each side. The inner corners have a ‘diamond and dot’ pattern blocked in gold. The central arabesque is formed by two gold fillets. Small clover leaf and stem decoration is blocked in relief on the perimeter of the centre-piece. The centre-piece is an oval, with elaborate small decoration blocked in gold on its perimeter. On the centre, the title: “/ The flower of [in a semi-circle]/ Christian/ Chivalry [in a semi-circle]/” is blocked in relief within three gold lettering-pieces. The spine is blocked in gold and in relief. From the head downwards, the decoration is: two gold fillets blocked across the spine; patterns of stem, bud and leaf decoration, blocked in gold and in relief; the title: “/ The flower of [in a semi-circle]/ Christian/ Chivalry [in a semi-circle]/” is blocked in relief within three gold lettering-pieces; down the spine to the tail – more patterns of stem, bud and leaf decoration, blocked in gold and in relief; at the tail, the word: “/Illustrated/” is blocked in relief within a rectangular gold lettering-piece.
- Dimensions
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Height: 172 millimetres
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Thickness: 30 millimetres
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Width: 125 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
Associated Title: The Flower of Christian Chivalry.
- Acquisition date
- 1992
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1992,0406.174
