- Museum number
- 1992,0406.201.b
- Description
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The Churchman's family magazine containing contributions by the clergy and distinguished literary men. With upwards of seventy illustrations. With illustrations by Frederick Sandys; E. H Corbould; W. P. Burton; F. R. Pickersgill, R. A.; M. Ellen Edwards; T. B. Dalziel; E. H. Wehnert; Alfred W. Cooper; M. J. Lawless; P. W. Justyne; E. Armitage; H. C. Selous; Marshall Claxton; T. Morten, and others. Vol. II. London: James Hogg, 1863. London: Harrild, printer. 568p. The other illustrators given in the ‘List of Illustrations’ are: G. J. Pinwell, Percival Skelton, Creswick, H. Sanderson, Paolo Priolo, Mrs. Rhymer-Jones. The illustrations are variously signed: Swain, W. Thomas, H. Harral, Dalziel. The frontispiece illustration is after Henry Courtney Selous, signed with his monogram, bottom right, and is captioned: “Alice are we friends? See “The discipline of sorrow” ” The illustration facing page 385 is after Mary Ellen Edwards, captioned: “On the shelf – see page 405”. The illustration facing page 407 is after H. Sanderson, captioned: “ “Shame, Shame, Penro” cried the steward’s daughter. See page 407”. The illustration facing page 481 is after Thomas Morten, signed left hand corner, and is captioned “The bell-ringers story. See “The peal of hope.” [page 513]. Robin de Beaumont’s notes regarding this copy are on the front endpaper recto.
Binding: Marbled edges, endpapers and pastedowns. Half blue calf. The fillets on the covers are tooled in blind. The spine is divided into six panels by double fillets tooled in gold or in blind. Panels two and four have, tooled in gold, the title words and the volume numbers on red leather labels: “/ Churchman’s/ Family/ Magazine/ Vol./ II./”
- Production date
- 1863
- Dimensions
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Height: 225 millimetres
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Thickness: 42 millimetres
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Width: 150 millimetres
- Curator's comments
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The British Library entry for this work issued in paper wrappers is at: http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/bookbindings/LargeImage.aspx?RecordId=020-000016029&ImageId=ImageId=55533&Copyright=BL
The BL copy has fourteen bound volumes. Bound by the BM in the C19 , in 1/4 leather, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, edges of boards gauffered. The paper covers are illustrated after a design by John Leighton; they have been bound in sequence for most volumes.
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From: Gleeson White pages 63-65
The second half of 1863 (vol. ii.) enshrines the fine Frederick Sandys, The Waiting Time, an incident of the Lancashire cotton famine (p. 91). Another of M. J. Lawless's, most charming designs, One Dead (p. 275), (reprinted under the title of The Silent Chamber), will be found here. M.E. Edwards contributes two, Ianthe's Grave (p. 12 8) and Child, I said (p. 405); G. J. Pinwell is represented once with By the Sea (p. 257); and T. Morten with The Bell-ringers' Christmas Story (p. 513). The other artists include H. C. Selous, C. W. Cope, F. R. Pickersgill, E. Armitage, A. W. Cooper, E. H. Wehnert, E. H. Corbould, Marshall Claxton, P. W. Justyne, P. Skelton, Paulo Priolo, D. H. Friston, H. Sanderson, Creswick, and T. B. Daiziel.
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Pagination of Vol. II.
July 1863. viii, 1-96pp. 4 plates.
August 1863. 97-192. 3 plates.
September 1863. 193-288. 2 plates.
October 1863. 289-384. 3 plates.
November 1863. 385-480. 3 plates.
December 1863. 481-0568. 2 plates.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1992
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1992,0406.201.b