print;
book;
book-illustration
- Museum number
- 1992,0406.2
- Description
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Adams, William. Sacred Allegories. New edition, with engravings from original designs by Charles W. Cope, R. A. [i.e Charles West Cope], John C. Horsley, A. R. A. [i.e John Calcott Horsley], Samuel Palmer, Birket Foster, and George E. Hicks [i.e George Elgar Hicks]. London: Rivingtons, Waterloo Place, 1856. London: Printed by Richard Clay, Bread Street Hill. vii, 294p. With one page of publisher’s titles bound at the end. In the ‘List of Illustrations’, the engravers are listed as: Edmund Evans, W. T. Green, Thomas Bolton, W. Measom [i.e. William Frederick Measom], Horace Harral, Dalziel [Brothers]. Bookplate of Henry Smales on upper pastedown. 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 paste down.
Binding: Giltedges. Bevelled boards. Brown endpapers and pastedowns. Brown morocco horizontal-grain cloth. Binder’s ticket on lower pastedown: “/ Bound by/ Bone & Son/ [rule]/ 76, Fleet Street,/ London./” [Ball no. 17A.] Both covers are blocked identically in gold, in blind and in relief. Two fillets are blocked on the borders, the outer thin, the inner thick. Apart from the centre, the rest of the cover is blocked in relief with a pattern of ‘horse chestnut’ leaves buds and curling stems. The central vignette has more ‘horse chestnut’ leaves buds and curling stems blodked in gold on its border. Witthin the vignette, the title words: “/ Sacred/ Allegories/” are blocked in gold in gothic letters. The spine is blocked in gold. From head to tail, a pattern of ‘horse chestnut’ stems leaves and buds is blocked in gold. Near the head, the stems form a circle, in which the words: “/ Sacred/ Allegories/ [rule]/ Adams./” are blocked in gold.
- Production date
- 1856
- Dimensions
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Height: 230 millimetres
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Thickness: 40 millimetres
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Width: 175 millimetres
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
Associated Title: Sacred Allegories.
- Acquisition date
- 1992
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1992,0406.2