print;
book;
book-illustration
- Museum number
- 1992,0406.227
- Description
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Montgomery, James. Poems. Selected and edited by Robert Aris Willmott. Illustrated with one hundred designs by John Gilbert, J. Wolf [i.e. Joseph Wolf], Birket Foster [i.e. Myles Birket Foster], etc. London: Routledge, Warne, & Routledge, Farringdon Street; New York: 56, Walker Street, 1860. London: Richard Clay, Printer, Bread Street Hill. [19], 380p. 1 plate. Other illustrators given in the List of Illustrations are: Frederick Richard Pickersgill, Edward Duncan, William Harvey, Harrison William Weir.The frontispiece plate is a portrait of James Montgomery, engraved by Joseph Brown. The illustration on page 73 is signed: “Weir” and is captioned: “When the wild hunter takes his lonely way”. Robin de Beaumont's notes regarding price and dating of this copy are written on the front endpaper verso. He has noted the following proof plates are in the Dalziel Brothers Archive: 1859: nos. 1269-1368. The bookplate of Robin de Beaumont is on the front paste down.
Binding: Text sewn on three tapes. Bevelled boards. Gilt edges. Yellow endpapers and pastedowns. Binder’s ticket on lower pastedown: “/ Bound/ by/ Leighton/ Son and/ Hodge./” [Ball no. 53B.] Blue morocco vertical-grain cloth. Both covers are blocked identically in gold, in blind, and in relief. Three gold fillets are blocked on the borders. Patterns of leaves, of stems are blocked in gold on the corners and on the sides. Two inner ovals are formed by double fillets blocked in gold. Between them, and inside the inner oval, patterns of small leaves and stems are blocked in relief. Elaborate patterns of stems and leaves on the centre in gold, with a diamond shape at the centre. Above and below the centre, large ‘flower shape’ gold lettering-pieces are blocked in gold, with the words: “/ Poems by/ James/ Montgomery/” blocked in relief within each ‘flower shape’. Around these words, small filigree decoration is picked out in relief. The spine is blocked in gold. Two gold fillets are blocked in gold on its perimeter. Elaborate leaf and stem decoration, blocked in gold, surrounds the gold lettering-piece, which contains the words: “/ Poems/ by/ James Montgomery/” blocked in relief within it. Small filigree work blocked in relief surrounds the title words. On the lower half of the spine, and at the tail, two cartouche-shaped gold lettering-pieces contain the words: “/ Illustrated/” and “/ Routledge & Co/” which are blocked in relief inside each – all surrounded by elaborate fillets, leaves and stems blocked in gold.
- Production date
- 1860
- Dimensions
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Height: 230 millimetres
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Thickness: 40 millimetres
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Width: 180 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
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The British Library copy of this work is at shelf mark W82/7708. See:
http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/bookbindings/LargeImage.aspx?RecordId=020-000022469&ImageId=ImageId=59580&Copyright=BL
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For descriptive details of the binder’s ticket, see: Ball, Douglas. Victorian publishers’ bindings. London, Library Association, 1985, Appendix E, Nineteenth Century Edition Binders’ Signatures.
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
Associated Title: Poems.
- Acquisition date
- 1992
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1992,0406.227
