print;
book;
book-illustration
- Museum number
- 1992,0406.33
- Description
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Bryant, William Cullen. Poems. Collected and arranged by the Author. Illustrated with seventy-one Engravings, from Drawings by Eminent Artists. New York: D. Appleton & Co. 346 and 348 Broadway, [1854.] [London:] R. Clay, printer, Bread Street Hill.xv, 344p. The List of Illustrations states the illustrators as: T. Dalziel [i.e. Thomas Dalziel], Birket Foster [i.e. Myles Birket Foster], William Harvey, J. R. Clayton [i.e. John Richard Clayton], J. Tenniel [i.e. John Tenniel], F. R. Pickersgill [i.e. Frederick Richard Pickersgill], G. Duncan [i.e. probably Edward Duncan] , Harrison Weir [i.e. William Harrison Weir], Edward Dalziel. All Engraved by the Brothers Dalziel. The bookplate of Robert Brydall is on the front pastedown. Robin de Beaumont's notes regarding price and dating of this copy are written on the front endpaper verso. His note on Brydall reads: “Robert Brydall was at St. George’s Art School, Glasgow & wrote ‘Early Sculpture in Scotland’, [Glasgow : Printed by Robert Anderson] 1888’.” There is a copy of this work in Glasgow University. Robin de Beaumont has noted the following proof plates are in the Dalziel Archive:1857 nos. 1170-1240. The frontispiece is a portrait of Robert Bryant, with his signature. It is drawn by Thomas Dalziel, after a picture by Samuel Lawrence. The illustration is signed: “/ Samuel Lawrence/ Delt 1856/” The bookplate of Robin de Beaumont is on the front paste down.
Binding: Text sewn on three tapes. Bevelled boards. Gilt edges. Yellow endpapers and pastedowns. Dark purple coarse pebble-grain cloth. The same design has been blocked on both covers, in blind and in relief on the lower, and in gold and relief on the upper cover. A border of rose stems, rose buds and rose flowers is blocked on the borders between two gold fillets. Inside this, a pattern of rose branches, rose stems, rose buds, rose flowers is blocked in gold; all of these are in relief, with diamond-shaped lattice work blocked in relief between the rose decoration. All are blocked around the central rectangle, which is formed by ‘branch like’ gold fillets, which form straps at its head and at its tail. On the centre, the words: “/ Bryants/ Poems/” are blocked in gold, in ‘branch-like’ letters. The spine is blocked in gold. A single ‘branch-like’ gold fillet is blocked on its perimeter. From tail to head, rose branches, stems buds and flowers are blocked in gold, with the branches forming two ovals on the lower half of the spine, and another oval in the middle. Within the middle oval, the words: “/ Bryants [in a semi-circle]/ Poems/” are blocked in gold in ‘branch-like’ letters.
- Production date
- 1854
- Dimensions
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Height: 235 millimetres
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Thickness: 33 millimetres
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Width: 185 millimetres
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
Associated Title: Poems. Collected and arranged by the Author.
- Acquisition date
- 1992
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1992,0406.33
