print;
book-illustration;
book
- Museum number
- 1992,0406.32
- Description
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Christmas Carols New and Old. The words edited by Henry Ramsden. The Music edited by John Stainer. With illustrations, engraved by the Brothers Dalziel. [Device of Novello, Ewer & Co.] London: George Routledge and Sons, the Broadway, Ludgate; Novello, Ewer and Co., Berners Street, W., and 35 Poultry, E. C. [London:] Dalziel Brothers, Engravers and Printers Camden Press, [1871]. [8], 94p. With two pages of publisher’s titles bound at the end. The List of Contents states the illustrators as: Arthur Hughes, T. Dalziel [i.e. Thomas Dalziel], W. J. Wiegand , F. A. Fraser [i. e. Francis Arthur Fraser], Francis Walker, P. Hundley [i. e. Philip Hundley ], John Leighton, J. B. Zwecker [i. e. Johann Baptist Zwecker], E. G. Dalziel [i. e. Edward Gurden Dalziel], J. Mahoney [i. e. James Mahoney]. The frontispiece plate is signed “AH” [ i.e. Arthur Hughes], and “Dalziel”. The bookplate of Edward Dalziel is on the front pastedown. The bookplate of Gilbert Edward Standen is also tipped onto the front pastedown. Robin de Beaumont's notes regarding price and dating of this copy are written on the front endpaper verso. Robin de Beaumont has noted the following proof plates are in the Dalziel Archive: 1871 nos. 570-613. The bookplate of Robin de Beaumont is on the front paste down. An article from the “Times” of Saturday, December 22, 1923, entitled: “Christmas Music” is tipped on to the rear endpaper. A bookseller’s catalogue description of this work is tipped on to the head of the lower pastedown.
Binding: Gilt edges. Bevelled boards. Beige endpapers and pastedowns. Brown sand-grain cloth. The lower cover is blocked in blind only. It has two fillets blocked on the borders, and an inner border showing a ‘Renaissance frame’ in outline. The upper cover is blocked in gold and in black. Three fillets are blocked on the borders, one in gild, between two blocked in black. The same ‘Renaissance frame’ has small filigree decoration blocked in gold, each with black blocking and repeating gold dots, on the borders. Medallions separate each border portion, and each features an angel putto, with four wings surround the head, and two wings underneath. The central rectangle has black and gold decoration on its borders. It shows the Virgin Mary, standing, and the Christ Child in her arms, each with a halo blocked in gold, against a black background. The title words: “/ Christmas Carols/” and: “/ New and Old/” are blocked in gold within rectangular cartouches blocked a the head and at the tail, each bordered with a single gold fillet and small decoration blocked in black. The spine is blocked in gold and in black. Five gold fillets are blocked across the spine at the head and at the tail, the innermost of which has repeating gold dots between them. Much of the spine has fine filigree decoration blocked in gold. Pairs of black fillets blocked across the spine have the title words: “/ Carols/ New/ [an Angel’s head as on the front cover]/ and/ Old/”.
- Production date
- 1871
- Dimensions
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Height: 272 millimetres
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Thickness: 20 millimetres
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Width: 195 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
Associated Title: Christmas carols.
- Acquisition date
- 1992
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1992,0406.32
