book;
book-illustration;
print;
newspaper/periodical
- Museum number
- 1992,0406.203.n
- Description
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The Cornhill Magazine. Vol. XIV. July to December, 1866. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 65, Cornhill, 1866. London: Printed by Smith, Elder & Co., Little Green Arbour Court, E. C. viii, 760p. 12 plates. Each monthly issue (originally in paper wrappers) was accompanied by two illustrations. The illustration opposite page 513 is after Frederick Walker. It is captioned: “Dick and Reine”. It is signed with the initials “F W”, lower left corner; and “Swain Sc”., lower right corner. The capital initial “H” on page 385 accompanies chapter XXV of the Claverings, entitled: ‘What would men say of you?’ It shows Harry Clavering, seated on a chair, his body bowed in misery, with Lady Ongar standing beside him. It is signed with the initials: “M E E ”, lower left corner; and “H Harral SC”, lower right corner. (This volume has five illustrations after Frederick Walker for Anne Thackeray’s novel ‘The village on the cliff’. This volume has also six illustrations after Mary Ellen Edwards for Trollope’s novel: ‘The Claverings’; many of these illustrations have been reproduced already. The volume also has one illustration by Sandys, entitled: Cleopatra’.)
Binding: Text sewn on three tapes. Yellow endpapers and pastedowns. Some of the fore edge quires have not been ploughed (guillotined) properly, and still show torn fragments of paper. 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 4 [sic i.e. 14]” 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
- 1866
- Dimensions
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Height: 236 millimetres
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Thickness: 60 millimetres
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Width: 157 millimetres
- Curator's comments
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Pagination:
Vol. XI. July to December, 1866
No. 79. July. 1866 pp. 1-128 2 plates
No. 80. August 1866 pp. 129-256 2 plates
No. 81. Sept. 1866 pp. 257-384 2 Plates
No. 82. Oct. 1866 pp. 385-512 2 plates
No. 83. Nov. 1866 pp. 513-640 2 plates
No. 84. Dec. 1866 pp.641-760 2 plates
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Mary Ellen Edwards
http://www.victorianweb.org/art/illustration/edwardsme/cooke.html
http://www.victorianweb.org/art/illustration/edwardsme/cooke2.htm
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Frederick Walker
http://www.victorianweb.org/art/illustration/walker/bio.html
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
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Associated Title: The Cornhill Magazine
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Associated Title: The Claverings
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Associated Title: Village on the Cliff
- Acquisition date
- 1992
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1992,0406.203.n
