- Museum number
- 1992,0406.336
- Description
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Rhymes and Roundelayes in praise of a Country Life. Adorned with many pictures. London: David Bogue, 86, Fleet Street, 1857. London: Printed by Richard Clay, Bread Street Hill. [8], 192p. In the ‘List of illustrations’, the illustrations have been drawn by [full names give where possible]: Myles Birket Foster, Edward Duncan, George Dodgson, Walter Goodall, John Absolon, Frederick William Hulme, Richard Ansdell, Harrison William Weir, Samuel Read, Frederick Tayler; the engravers are listed as [full names where possible]: Edmund Evans, W. T. Green, Cooper [possibly James Davis Cooper], Horace Harral, T. Bolton [probably Thomas Bolton], Orrin Smith [i.e. Smith Harvey Orrin], J. Whymper [probably Josiah Wood Whymper], W. Wright, John Greenaway. The frontispiece plate is after Birket Foster, engraved by Edmund Evans. It is captioned: ‘A summer evening’. Printed at the end of the ‘List of Illustrations: ‘ The Ornamental Initial Letters drawn by Thomas Macquoid and Noel Humphreys. The Tail-pieces by Jane E. Hay[ i.e Jane E Benham]. ’ 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: Gilt edges. Bevelled boards. Yellow endpapers and pastedowns. Binder’s ticket on lower pastedown: “/ Leighton// Son &/ Hodge,/ Shoe Lane/ London/” [Ball no. 53A.] Blue morocco horizontal-grain cloth. Both covers are blocked identically, with an ‘all over’ design. The outer border has two gold fillets, and, between these there is a band of horizontal-hatch gold, with repeating stems and leaves blocked within it in relief. Apart from the centre, the rest of the cover has ‘rose-like’ stems, leaves, buds – all blocked in gold with the decoration being picked out in relief. The plants have a background of trellis work, blocked in relief, with the diamonds between the raised trellis being blocked in blind. The centre is an oval recessed panel, formed by two gold fillets, with a border of horizontal-hatch gold, blocked between these. Within the panel, a single gold fillet is blocked, forming an oval. Inside this, the title words: “/ Rhymes/ and Roundelayes [in a semi-circle]/ in Praise/ of a/ Country Life/” are blocked in gold in ‘rustic’ fanciful letters. The spine is blocked in gold. At the head and at the tail, a single gold fillet is blocked across it. From head to tail, a pattern of stems, leaves and flowers is blocked in gold. Near the head, the title words “/ Rhymes [in a semi-circle]/ and Roundelayes [in a semi-circle]./” are blocked in gold.
- Production date
- 1857
- Dimensions
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Height: 232 millimetres
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Thickness: 30 millimetres
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Width: 172 millimetres
- 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: Rhymes and Roundelayes in praise of a Country Life.
- Acquisition date
- 1992
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1992,0406.336
