- Museum number
- 1992,0406.207.c
- Description
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Good Words for the Young 1871 [i.e. 1870-1871]. Edited by Norman Macleod, D. D. London: Strahan & Co. London: Printed by Virtue & Co., City Road. 686p.; 47p. There are illustrations within the text and also as separate plates. In the list of] Illustrations, the artists are given as: A. Hughes, J. B. Zwecker, J. G. Thomson, A. B. Houghton, J. Mahoney, E. F. Brewtnall, W. J. Wiegand, H. French, F. A. Fraser, T. Green, Ernest Griset, Fras. Walker, T. Dalziel, W. L. Jones, H. Herkomer, R. Ross, W. Small, J. Ralston, E. G. Dalziel, J. Tuck. The majority of the illustrations and plates are signed: “Dalziel”. The illustration facing page 465 is after F. A. Fraser, accompanying the story “The pit boys and their dog”, by Edward Howe. The illustration facing page 178 is after Zwecker, accompanying the story “The Rookery” by Mrs. George Cupples. Robin de Beaumont’s notes regarding this copy are on the front endpaper recto.
Binding: It looks as though the text of each of these four volumes has been re-backed, with the original cases detached from their texts and re-attached to each bound volume of this set. No original endpapers or pastedowns. Blue sand-grain cloth. Both covers are identically blocked with the same design on the borders and corners, in blind on the lower cover and in black and in gold on the upper cover. On the lower cover, two fillets blocked on the borders intersect at the corners, forming straps. Inside this, stems, leaves buds and flowers are blocked. The central rectangle is formed of multiple fillets. On the centre of the cover, the device of Strahan & Co. is blocked in blind. The upper cover is blocked in black and in gold. The fillets and the floral decoration is the same as the lower cover, but all blocked in black. The multiple fillets forming the central rectangle are blocked in black and in gold. The gold fillets end in ‘spear tips’. Within it, there are six rectangles formed by fillets blocked in gold. Within the uppermost, the proverb: “/The child is /the father of the man/” is blocked in gold, together with two five pointed stars. In the other rectangles, the title words: “/ Good/ Words/ for the/ Young/ 1871/” are blocked in gold. The spine is of (faded) blue pebble grain cloth, and does not appear to be original. The spine has three fillets blocked across the spine (in black?) at the head and at the tail. Near the head, the title words: “/ Good Words/ for/ the Young/ [rule]/ 1871/” are blocked in gold.
- Production date
- 1870-1871
- Dimensions
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Height: 241 millimetres
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Thickness: 50 millimetres
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Width: 170 millimetres
- Curator's comments
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The volume contains monthly issues for 1.11.1870 to 1.10.1871. (686p.) The issue for 25.12.1871 (?) is bound at the end. (47p.)
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From Gleeson White
In 1871, Arthur Hughes, the chief illustrator of this magazine, to whose presence it owes most of its interest (since other artists are well represented elsewhere, but he is rarely met with outside its pages), contributes thirty pictures to Dr. George Mac Donald's Princess and the Goblin, and four¬teen others, some of which have been republished in Lilliput
Lectures and elsewhere,—one, Mercy (p. 195), reappearing in that work, and again as the theme of a large painting in oils, which was exhibited at the Royal Academy 1893, and reproduced in The Illustrated London News, May 3rd of that year. A. Boyd Houghton, in Don Josis Mule (p. 28), has a most delightfully grotesque illustration, and in two draw¬ings for The Merry Little Cobbler of Bagdad (pp. 337-338), both in his 'Arabian Nights' vein, is typically representative. For the rest, W. Small in My Little Gypsy Cousin (p. 95), a good full page, and Ernest Griset with ten of his humorous animal pictures, combine with most of the artists already named to maintain the well-deserved reputation of the magazine.
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
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Associated Title: The pit boys and their dog
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Associated Title: The Rookery
- Acquisition date
- 1992
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1992,0406.207.c
