- Museum number
- 1992,0406.206.k
- Description
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Good Words for1871. Edited by Norman Macleod, D. D. And illustrated by Arthur Hughes, J. Leighton, G. J. Pinwell, F. A. Fraser. London: Strahan and Co., Magazine Publishers, 56, Ludgate Hill, 1871. 870 p. 136 separate plates and illustrations set into text. Additional artists in the “List of Illustrations” are: E. G. Dalziel, T. Green, Henry Alford, J. Burrell Smith, C. G. Lawson, J. B. Zwecker, M. Fraser-Tytler, J. G. Thomson, E. M. Wimpperis, W. Small, H. Armstead, J. R. Jackson. Many of the engravings are signed “Dalziel”. The frontispiece illustration is after F. A. Fraser, signed: “F A F”, bottom right and “Dalziel” bottom left, which accompanies chapter LIV of the story “The Sylvestres”, by M de Betham-Edwards. The illustration facing page 371 is after William Small, signed with his initials, bottom left and “Dalziel” bottom right, accompanying chapter X of “The High Mills”, by Katherine Saunders. Robin de Beaumont’s notes regarding this copy are on a separate paper slip. Binding: Sewn on three sawn-in cords. Yellow endpapers and pastedowns. Purple wave vertical-grain cloth. The same design is blocked on both covers. A single fillet blocked in blind on the borders forms a “rule frame”. On the corners and the sides, patterns of stems, leaves and flower buds are blocked in blind. On the centre of the upper cover, the title: “/ Good/ Words/ 1871/”, are blocked in gold, in “floral” letters. The same lettering is blocked on the centre of the lower cover, in blind. The spine is blocked in gold and in blind. A single fillet is blocked in blind on the perimeter. From the head downwards, the decoration is: stylised plant decoration, blocked in blind; the words: “Good/ Words/ Edited By/ Norman Macleod D. D./” are blocked in gold. On the lower half of the spine, a diamond is formed by two fillets, blocked in gold; the diamond is surrounded by stylised plant decoration, blocked in blind; within the diamond, amidst plant decoration, the words: “/ With/ Illustrations//” are blocked in gold. The year: “/1871/” is blocked in gold at the tail.
- Production date
- 1871
- Dimensions
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Height: 243 millimetres
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Thickness: 55 millimetres
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Width: 180 millimetres
- Curator's comments
- From Gleeson White
1871 is memorable for three of Arthur Hughes's designs, made for a projected illustrated edition of Tennyson's Loves of the Wrens, a scheme abandoned at the author's wish; the three drawings cut down from their original size, Fly Little Lettyer (p.33), The Mist and the Rain (p. I 13), and Sun Comes, Moon. Comes (p. 183), are especially dear to collectors of Mr. Hughes's work, which appeared here with the lyrics set to Sir Arthhur Sullivan's music; another by the same artist, The Mother and the Angel (p. 648), is also worth noting. One Boyd Houghton, Baraduree Justice (p. 464), twenty-one drawings W. Small to Katharine Saunders, The High Mills, and one by the same artist to An Unfinished Song (p. 641) re this volume, besides four by Pinwell, Aid to the Sick (p. 40), The Devil's Boots (p. 217), Toddy's Legacy (p. 336), and Shall we ever meet again? (p. 817). Without discussing the remaining years of this still flourishing monthly one can hardly omit mention of the volume for 1878, in which William Black's Macleod of Dare is illustrated by G. H. Boughton, R.A., J. Pettie, R.A., Graham, R.A., W. Q. Orchardson, R.A., and John Everett Milllais, R.A., a group which recalls the glories of its early issues.
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
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Associated Title: The Sylvestres.
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Associated Title: The High mills.
- Acquisition date
- 1992
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1992,0406.206.k
