- Museum number
- 1992,0406.337
- Description
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Rhymes and Roundelayes in praise of a Country Life. Illustrated by Birket Foster, Harrison Weir, and other artists. London and New York: George Routledge and Sons, 1875. London: Printed by R. Clay and Sons, and Taylor, Printers, Bread Street Hill. [8], 192p. In the ‘List of illustrations’, the illustrations have been drawn by [full names give where possible]: Myles Birket Foster, Thomas Macquoid, Edward Duncan, George Dodgson, Henry Noel Humphreys, Walter Goodall, John Absolon, Frederick William Hulme, Richard Ansdell, Harrison William Weir, Samuel Read, Frederick Tayler , John Skinner Prout; 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], John Greenaway, Wall. Printed at the end of the ‘List of Illustrations: ‘ The Ornamental Initial Letters drawn by Thomas Macquoid. The Tail-pieces by Jane E. Hay[ i.e. Jane E Benham].’ The Illustration on page 12 is after George Dodgson, engraved by Horace Harral. It is captioned in the ‘List of illustrations’ as: ‘Paints with gold the village spire’. 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: Binding: Gilt edges. Bevelled boards. Beige endpapers and pastedowns. Binder’s ticket on lower pastedown: “/ Bound by/ Burn/ & Co/”. [Ball no. 20E.] Blue sand-grain cloth. The lower cover is blocked in blind only. Two fillets are blocked in blind on the outer borders. Two more fillets in blind form the inner panel. At the head and tail of this panel, cartouches have stems and leaves blocked horizontally within each. The centre of the panel shows a sing, ‘fern-like’ plant, blocked in blind. The upper cover is blocked in gold, in relief, in black and in red. Rectangular panels are formed by gold fillets, on the head the tail and the sides. At the head, and down the spine side, a red only is placed. At the head, the title words: “/ Rhymes [blocked in black]/ and Roundelayes/” are blocked in relief, within rectangular gold lettering-pieces. In the panel at the tail, the sub-title: “/ In Praise of a Country Life/” are blocked in relief within a rectangular gold lettering-piece. On the bottom left of the cover, two birds are blocked in black amidst branches picked out in blue relief, within a square gold lettering-piece. On the top right of the cover, two birds are blocked in gold amidst branches picked out in relief, against a red on lay, with black background. On the left hand side, a shepherd’s staff, a set of pan pipes, and a trumpet are blocked in gold and relief, against a background of a rectangular black lettering-piece, with a branch and its leaves being blocked as part of a red on lay. On the fore edge side and at the tail. , ‘honeysuckle-like’ plants and flowers are blocked, with the stems and leaves being picked out against a black ground, and the flower being blocked in gold. The spine is blocked in gold and in black and in relief. Three gold fillets are blocked across the spine at the head and at the tail. Near the head, two birds are blocked in gold, within a roundel formed by a single gold fillet, against a background blocked in black. Underneath this, there is a red on lay lettering-piece, blocked in gold, the words:”/ Rhymes/ and/ Roundelayes/ blocked in relief within it. Underneath the title, the sub-title:”/ In Praise of/a/ Country Life/”, with flowers [blocked in gold], stems and leaves (blocked in black) beneath the sub-title. The Words: “/ Illustrated by/” are blocked in gold; the words: “/ Birket Foster/” are blocked in relief within a rectangular gold –lettering-piece. Near the tail, a book, a set of pan pipes and two trumpets are blocked in gold within a roundel formed by a single gold fillet, against a black ground. At the tail, the word “/ Routledge/” is blocked in relief within a gold lettering-piece with a single fillet blocked on its borders in relief.
- Production date
- 1875
- 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
- 1992,0406.337
