- Museum number
- 1992,0406.257
- Description
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Picture Posies. Poems chiefly by living artists and drawings by F. Walker, A.R.A. [i.e. Frederick Walker], G.J. Pinwell, [i.e. George John Pinwell], W.E. Frost, R.A. [i.e. William Edward Frost], J. W. North [i.e. John William North], T. Dalziel [i.e. Thomas Dalziel], E. M. Ward, R. A. [i.e. Edward Matthew Ward], A. B. Houghton [i.e. Arthur Boyd Houghton], J. D. Harding [i.e. James Duffileld Harding, W. Mulready, R. A. [i.e William Mulready], E. G,. Dalziel [i.e. Edward Gurden Dalziel], F. Danby, A.R. A. [i.e. Francis Danby], C. Stanfield, R. A. [i.e. Clarkson Stanfield], J. D. Watson [i.e. John Dawson Watson], Birket Foster [i.e. Myles Birket Foster], W. Small [i.e. William Small], and others. Engraved by the Dalziel Brothers. [Device of George Routledge. London and New York: George Routledge and Sons, 1874. [London:] Dalziel Brothers, Engravers and Printers, Camden Press. Other artists providing illustrations, not mentioned on the title page, are [full names given where possible]: W. Brooks [i.e. possibly William Brooks, architect], William Paton Burton, Frederick Goodall, R. A., Alfred Walter Bayes, Joseph Wolf, Johann Baptist Zwecker. The Preface reads: ‘Our Picture Posies have all appeared before, the greater part of them in “A Round of Days” and “Wayside Posies” both of which works were received with great favour; and the fact of both being out of print justifies the present issue.’ The frontispiece illustration is captioned: ‘Rain’. It is signed ‘FW’ [i.e. Frederick Walker]. The illustration on page 145 is by Alfred Walter Bayes, signed ‘AWB’ as a monogram, accompanying a poem entitled: ‘The Sea Captain’s Farewell to his Child’. Robin de Beaumont’s notes regarding price and dating of this copy are on front endpaper verso.The bookplate of Robin de Beaumont is on the upper pastedown.
Binding: Text sewn on three tapes. Gilt edges. Bevelled boards. Yellow endpapers and pastedowns. Bookseller’s ticket on upper pastedown:”/ Harrison/ [rule/ Bookseller/ to the Queen/ 59 Pall Mall./” Blue sand-grain cloth. The lower cover is blocked in blind, with two fillets blocked on the borders, and another fillet and repeating small decoration forming the inner panel. The upper cover is blocked in gold and in black and in relief. A single gold fillet is blocked on the borders, with squares formed by gold fillets on each corner, with decoration and gold tars blocked within each. Broad floral motifs blocked within a wide gold fillet form the inner border. The title words: “/Picture Posies/” are blocked in black within a semi-circular gold lettering-piece. Each of the capital letters has additional fillets around it and small decoration in relief surrounding each. More stem and lead decoration surrounds the title, and the central panel, in which the figure of a young girl is blocked in gold. She is has a shawl drawn around her waist, and her right hand hold a posy of flowers to her head. Around her, a woodland is blocked in black. The spine is blocked in gold and in black. Elaborate gold and black fillets blocked across the spine, with stylised flower and stem decoration blocked in gold – all are blocked down the spine. Near the head, the title words: “/ Picture/ Posies/” are blocked in gold, between gold and black fillets blocked across the spine. Near the tail, a vase on a stand, with a plant growing within it, is blocked in gold, with its decoration being picked out in relief. At the tail, the imprint: “/ Routledge & Son/ Is blocked in gold.
- Production date
- 1874
- Dimensions
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Height: 265 millimetres
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Thickness: 30 millimetres
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Width: 215 millimetres
- Curator's comments
- The British Library copy of this work is at shelf mark 11651.i.13. It has the same blocking on the upper cover, but on red cloth.
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
Associated Title: Picture Posies
- Acquisition date
- 1992
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1992,0406.257
