print;
book;
book-illustration
- Museum number
- 1992,0406.180
- Description
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Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth. Poetical Works. Evangeline - Voices of the Night – The Seaside and the Fireside – The Golden Legend. Miscellaneous Poems. Illustrated with upwards of one hundred and sixty engravings on wood from designs by Jane E. Benham, Birket Foster [i.e. Myles Birket Foster], etc. London: David Bogue, 86, Fleet Street, 1856. London: Henry Vizetelly, Printer and Engraver, Gough Square, Fleet Street. xvi, 422p. With two pages of publisher’s advertisements bound at the end. The frontispiece is a portrait of Longfellow. It is signed: “W. H. Mote Sc.” [i.e probably William Henry Mote.] The illustrations on pages 35 and 104 are signed “JEB” [i.e. Jane E. Benham] as a monogram. Robin de Beaumont’s notes regarding price and dating of this copy are on front endpaper verso. The bookplate of Robin de Beaumont is on the front paste down.
Binding: Text sewn on three tapes. Gilt edges. Bevelled boards. Yellow endpapers and pastedowns. Blue ripple horizontal-grain cloth. A single gold fillet is blocked on the borders. Between two more gold border fillets, a repeating pattern of gold hatch ovals is blocked in gold. Each of the ovals is bordered by two gold fillets. Each oval has small leaf decoration blocked within it in relief. Triangles are blocked on the corners, each formed by two gold fillets, with plant decoration blocked in gold. On the inside of the central diamond-shaped recess a border of two gold fillets is blocked, with a border of leaves and stems is blocked in relief. The centre piece is diamond-shaped, with lily-like flowers and acorn-like seeds blocked in gold. The four heart-shapes blocked in gold at the centre have their decoration within blocked in relief. The cover design is unsigned. The spine is blocked in gold and in relief. A single gold fillet is blocked upon the perimeter. From the head downwards, the decoration is: the title words: “/ Longfellow’s/ Poetical/ Works./ [rule]/ Illustrated./” are blocked in gold; A fir tree is blocked from underneath the title down to near the tail; small stars surround the tree and its trunk; a lyre is tied with ribbons to the trunk; small ‘lace-like’ decoration is blocked above the tree and to its sides – all in gold; at the base of the tree, a ‘heart-shape is blocked in gold with small decoration being picked out in relief within it; signed “JL” [i.e. John Leighton] in gold as separate letters at the base of this shape; at the tail, the words: “/ London:/ David Bogue./” are blocked in gold, within a rectangle formed by a single gold fillet.
- Production date
- 1856
- Dimensions
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Height: 215 millimetres
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Thickness: 35 millimetres
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Width: 154 millimetres
- Curator's comments
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The border decoration on each cover is the same as British Library 1570/1285 - Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth. Hyperion: a romance. David Bogue, 1853. http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/bookbindings/LargeImage.aspx?RecordId=020-000015632&ImageId=ImageId=55168&Copyright=BL
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The British Library copy of this work is at shelf mark 11686.g.27. http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/bookbindings/LargeImage.aspx?RecordId=020-000018233&ImageId=ImageId=56979&Copyright=BL
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
Associated Title: Poetical Works.
- Acquisition date
- 1992
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1992,0406.180
