- Museum number
- 1992,0406.207.d
- Description
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Good Words for the Young 1872 [i.e. 1871-1872]. Edited by Norman Macleod, D. D. A. Hughes, J. Mahoney, J. B. Zwecker, F. A. Fraser, Townley Green. London: Strahan & Co. London: London: Bradbury, Evans & Co., Whitefriears. vii, 572p.; 48p. There are illustrations within the text and also as separate plates. [In the list of] Illustrations, the artists are given as: T. Back, W. J. Wiegand, E. J. Brewtnall, F. S. Walker, Lady Verney, M. Fraser-Tytler, G. Cupples. The majority of the illustrations and plates are signed: “Dalziel”. The illustration facing page 130 is after Brewtnall, accompanying the story “Blowing bubbles”, by Jessie Forrester. The illustration on page 368 is after Mahoney, titled “Old Chuny & the Rebecca riots”, accompanying the story “The travelling menagerie” [Old Chuny was the biggest elephant in the show…”], by Charles Camden. 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 case 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/ Annual/ for 1872/” 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]/ 1872/” are blocked in gold.
- Production date
- 1871-1872
- Dimensions
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Height: 243 millimetres
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Thickness: 52 millimetres
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Width: 175 millimetres
- Curator's comments
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The volume contains monthly issues for 1.11.1871 to 1.10.1872. (572p.) The issue for 25.12.1872 (?) is bound at the end. (48p.)
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From Gleeson White:
In 1872 Arthur Hughes supplies nine delightful designs for Gutta-Percha Willie, by the Editor; twenty-four to Innocent's Island, a long-rhymed chronicle by the author of.Lilliput Levee, and a curiously fantastic drawing to George Mac Donald's well-known poem, The Wind and the Moon. Some one, with the initials F. E. F. (not F. A. F.), illustrates On the High Meadows in nineteen sketches; with the ex¬ception of two by J. Mahoney, the rest of the pictures are chiefly by F. A. Fraser, T. Green, F. S. Walker, W. J. Wiegand, and J. B. Zwecker.
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
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Associated Title: Blowing bubbles.
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Associated Title: The travelling menagerie.
- Acquisition date
- 1753-1992
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1992,0406.207.d