print;
book;
book-illustration
- Museum number
- 1992,0406.235
- Description
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Elliott, James William. National Nursery Rhymes and Nursery Songs. Set to Original Music. With Illustrations, engraved by the Brothers Dalziel. London: George Routledge and Sons Broadway, Ludgate Hill; Glasgow, Manchester and New York; London: Novello , Ewer, and Co., Berners St., W. and 35 Poultry, E. C., [1871]. [London:] Dalziel Brothers, engravers and printers, Camden Press. [1],[7], 112p. With four pages of publisher’s titles bound at the end. The frontispiece plate is signed: “Ernest Griset” and “Dalziel”. It shows groups of small children playing with animals set into mirrors with rusticated frames. The mirrors are hanging from a wooden frames, with a clock atop the whole. In the ‘Contents’, the illustrators are listed as [full names given where possible]: Francis Arthur Anderson Fraser, Fs Walker [possibly Francis Sylvester Walker] , William Small, Ernest Griset, Thomas Dalziel, Henry French, Johann Baptist Zwecker, W. J. Wiegand, Edward Gurden Dalziel, James Mahoney, Charles Green, Arthur Boyd Houghton, Henry Stacy Marks, George John Pinwell, Arthur Hughes. Robin de Beaumont's notes regarding price and dating of this copy are written on the front endpaper recto. He has noted the following proof plates are in the Dalziel Brothers Archive: 1870 nos.1354-1420. The bookplate of Robin de Beaumont is on the upper pastedown.
Binding: Text sewn on two tapes. Yellow endpapers and pastedowns. Brown fine rib diagonal-grain cloth. The same design is blocked on both covers, in black on the lower, and in gold and in black on the upper cover. On the upper cover, a single fillet is blocked in gold on the borders. On the head, the fore edge, and the tail, scenes from the nursery rhymes are blocked in black. The main rectangular panel is formed by two gold fillets. In it, the words: “/ National/ Nursery/ Rhymes/ Set to Music by/ J. W. Elliott/ Illustrated./” are blocked in gold and in black, with the capitals “N” and “R” being elongated with foliage within and around them, mediaeval style. The spine is blocked in gold and in black. On the head, the tail, and in the middle, nursery rhyme motifs are blocked in black. Near the head, the title words: “/ National/ Nursery/ Rhymes/” are blocked in gold.
- Production date
- 1871
- Dimensions
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Height: 268 millimetres
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Thickness: 20 millimetres
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Width: 192 millimetres
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
Associated Title: . National Nursery Rhymes and Nursery Songs.
- Acquisition date
- 1992
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1992,0406.235
