print;
book;
book-illustration
- Museum number
- 1992,0406.203.g
- Description
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The Cornhill Magazine. Vol. VII. January to June, 1863. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 65, Cornhill, 1863. London: Printed by Smith, Elder & Co., Little Green Arbour Court, E. C. viii, 804p. 21 plates. Each monthly issue (originally in paper wrappers) was accompanied by three or four illustrations. The illustration opposite page 621 is after Frederick Walker, accompanying William Smith’s poem: “Maladetta”. . It is signed: ‘Swain Sc’.It is captioned with the verses:
“But I only think of a guileless host
Killed by the shame of a daughter lost.
And a mother with too soon silvered head,
Who weeps for a daughter worse than dead.”
The illustration opposite page 657 is after Millais, accompanying chapter XXV of Trollope’s “Small House AT Allington”; it is captioned: “Devotedly attached to the Young Man”. It is signed with Millais’s monogram, and “Dalziel”.
Robin de Beaumont’s notes regarding this copy are on the front pastedown. This volume has nine illustrations after Frederic Leighton, illustrating George Eliot’s ‘Romola’. It also has six illustrations after Millais, illustrating Trollope’s ‘”The Small House at Allington”. These illustrations have mostly been reproduced already. There two illustrations after du Maurier. The first accompanies W. Frank Smith’s poem “The story of Elizabeth”. The second accompanies “Sybil’s Disappointment”.
Binding: Text sewn on three tapes. Yellow endpapers and pastedowns. Red morocco horizontal-grain cloth. Both covers are blocked identically in blind and in relief with the same design. The design is a copy of the one printed in the upper cover of each paper wrapper, which was after Godfrey Sykes, and engraved by William James Linton. This shows ornate decoration, with four medallions with a figure within each: the sower, the ploughman, the reaper and the thresher. The central rectangle has the title words: “/ The / Cornhill/ Magazine/” blocked in blind on the lower cover, and in gold on the upper cover. The spine has the same elaborate decoration as the covers. In a panel near the head, the title words: “/ The/ Cornhill/ Magazine/” blocked in gold. On the centre of the spine, within a medallion formed by two gold fillets and a ‘wave’ pattern, the word: “Vol 7” is blocked in gold. Near the tail, the imprint: “/ London/ Smith Elder & Co/” is blocked in gold. At the head and the tail of the spine, the original form of the six monthly issues, now bound together, can be clearly seen.
- Production date
- 1863
- Dimensions
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Height: 238 millimetres
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Thickness: 61 millimetres
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Width: 157 millimetres
- Curator's comments
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For illustrations after Frederic Leighton, accompanying Eliot’s ‘Romola’, see:
http://www.victorianweb.org/authors/eliot/hw/9.html
https://www.fulltable.com/vts/aoi/l/leightonf/we2/a.htm
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For illustrations after Millais, accompanying Trollope’s ‘The Small House at Allington’, see:
https://www.bl.uk/collection-items/millaiss-illustrations-for-the-small-house-at-allington
http://www.victorianweb.org/art/illustration/millais/cooke2.html
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For details of Frederick Walker, see:
http://www.victorianweb.org/art/illustration/walker/bio.html
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Walker,_Frederick_(DNB00)
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Pagination:
Vol. VII. Jan to June, 1863
No. 37. Jan. 1863 pp. 1-144 4 plates
No. 38 Feb. 1863 pp. 145-280 4 plates
No. 39. March 1863 pp. 281-416 3 Plates
No. 40. April 1863 pp. 417-552 3 plates
No. 41. May 1863 pp. 553-680 4 plates
No. 42 June 1863 pp.681-804 3 plates
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
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Associated Title: The Cornhill Magazine
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Associated Title: Romola
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Associated Title: Small House at Allington
- Acquisition date
- 1992
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1992,0406.203.g