print;
book;
book-illustration
- Museum number
- 1992,0406.305
- Description
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R, E. A. The Carterets; or, country pleasures. With illustrations by Thomas B. Dalziel. [i.e. Thomas Bolton Gilchrist Septimus Dalziel]. London: James Hogg & Sons, [1862]. London: Dalziel Brothers, Camden Press. 315p. 5 plates. With four pages of publisher’s titles bound at the end. The frontispiece plate is entitled: “/ Hall-Farm and Oast-House. – Mrs. Price doing the Honours. P.17./ Frontispiece./” All of the plates are signed: “Dalziel/”. Robin de Beaumont's notes regarding price and dating of this copy are written on the front endpaper verso. The bookplate of Robin de Beaumont is on the front paste down.
Binding: Gilt edges. Beige endpapers and pastedowns. Purple bead and horizontal-line grain cloth. Both covers are blocked identically in blind and in relief on the borders, the corners and the sides. Three fillets are blocked in blind on the outer borders. Inside this, between two fillets blocked in relief, with a repeating pattern of ‘single leaf’ blocked between them. On the inner borders, groups of stems and three ‘lily-like’ flowers are blocked in relief. On the upper cover, a large oval, formed by multiple fillets and hatch gold, has leaf decoration at each quarter point. On the centre, an elaborate hatch gold lettering-piece contains the words: “/ The/ Carterets/ or/ Country/ Pleasures/ by E: A: R:/”, which are blocked in lettering-pieces, each of which has a single fillet blocked in relief on its perimeter. The spine is blocked in gold and in relief. At the head, a repeating ‘leaf’ pattern is blocked in relief across the spine, within a rectangle formed by a single fillet blocked in relief. Below this, down to the tail, stylised plant decoration is blocked in relief. On the middle of the spine, a large arabesque shaped gold lettering piece has the words: “/ The/ Carterets/ or/ Country/ Pleasures/ [rule]/ by/ E: A: R: /” are blocked in relief within seven gold lettering-pieces, each of which has a single fillet blocked in relief on its borders. Near the tail, the word: “/illustrated/” is blocked in relief within a rectangular shaped gold lettering-piece, which has a single gold fillet blocked above and below it.
- Production date
- 1862
- Dimensions
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Height: 175 millimetres
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Thickness: 30 millimetres
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Width: 125 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
Associated Title: The Carterets; or, country pleasures.
- Acquisition date
- 1992
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1992,0406.305
