- Museum number
- 1992,0406.270
- Description
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Proctor, Adelaide Anne. Legends and lyrics. With an introduction by Charles Dickens. New edition, with additions. Illustrated by W. T. C. Dobson [i.e. William Charles Thomas Dobson], A.R.A., Samuel Palmer, J. Tenniel [i.e. John Tenniel], George H. Thomas [i.e. George Housman Thomas], Lorenz Fröhlich, W.H. Millais [i. e. William Henry Millais], G. Du Maurier [i.e. George Du Maurier], W.P. Burton [i.e. William PAton Burton], J.D. Watson [i.e. John Dawson Watson], Charles Keene, J.M. Carrick [i.e. John Mulcaster Carrick] M.E. Edwards [i.e. Mary Ellen Edwards], T. Morten [i.e. Thomas Morten]. London: Ball and Daldy, 186, Fleet Street, 1866. London: Chiswick Press: C. Whittingham, Tooks Court, Chancery Lane. 330p. The frontispiece is a portrait of Adelaide Anne Proctor. The illustration on page 321 is after William Henry Millais, captioned “Spring”. Robin de Beaumont’s notes regarding price and dating of this copy are on front endpaper verso and on the front flyleaf recto.The bookplate of Robin de Beaumont is on the upper pastedown.
Binding: The design is by John Leighton. Printed at the base of the list of Illustrations: "The engravings are by Mr Horace Harral." Gilt edges. Bevelled boards. Yellow endpapers and pastedowns. Binder’s ticket on lower pastedown: “/ Bound by/ Edmonds & Remnants/ [rule]/ London/”. [Ball no. 31A.] Purple sand-grain cloth. The same design is blocked on both covers. On the lower cover, the blocking is in blind only. On the upper cover, the blocking is in gold and in black. On the borders are blocked 1. a repeating pattern of single flower heads and stems in gold 2. a fillets blocked in gold, and, within it, small dots, circles and diamonds are blocked in relief 3. a single gold fillet. The strap work, blocked in black, forms many small panels, in which the dotted stem and leaf decoration is blocked in gold. There are small flower head patterns, and small fillets around the edge of each small panel. Above the central oval, the title words: "/ Legends & lyrics/" are blocked in gold, within a rectangle formed by a single fillet. Below the oval, the words: "/ By/ A.A.Proctor/" are blocked in gold, within a rectangle formed by four gold fillets. The central oval has four borders, the innermost of which is hatched. At the centre, a lyre is blocked in relief, within a hatched gold lettering-piece. Signed "JL" in relief as separate letters, at the base of the lyre. The spine is blocked in gold and in black. As on the borders of the covers, the same repeating flowers and stems are blocked in gold at the head and at the tail. There is a single fillet blocked on the perimeter, with the same decoration in relief as for the upper cover. The spine is divided into panels by strap work, blocked in black, around the panel borders. From the head, the blocking within the panels consists of: 1. small decoration in gold. 2. The words: "/ Legends/ &/ Lyrics/ by/ A. A. Proctor/" are blocked in gold inside a panel formed by two gold fillets. 3. A hatched gold lettering-piece, shaped as an oval, with flowers in horizontal hatch blocked in relief inside. 4. The imprint: "/ London/ Bell and/ Daldy./" is blocked in relief in a hatched rectangular gold lettering-piece, with two gold fillets blocked on its borders.
- Production date
- 1866
- Dimensions
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Height: 230 millimetres
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Thickness: 43 millimetres
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Width: 176 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- 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: Legends and lyrics.
- Acquisition date
- 1992
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1992,0406.270
