print;
book;
book-illustration
- Museum number
- 1992,0406.338
- Description
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Richmond, D. Accidents of childhood, or cautionary stories for heedless children. With twenty illustrations by J. D. Watson [i. e. John Dawson Watson]. Engraved by the Brothers Dalziel. [Device of Routledge and Routledge.] London: George Routledge and Sons, Broadway, Ludgate Hill; New York: 129 Grand Street, 1866. [London:] Dalziel Brothers, engravers and printers, Camden Press. 175p. 1 plate. With eight pages of publisher’s titles bound at the end. The frontispiece plate is entitled: “/ Teasing Tom pulls the chair from under his sister. P. 67./”. It is signed with Watson’s monogram and the word: “Dalziel”. Robin de Beaumont's notes regarding price and dating of this copy are written on the front endpaper verso. He has also noted: “Dalziel Collection. 1860. [nos.] 1055-1074”. The bookplate of Robin de Beaumont is on the front paste down.
Binding: Gilt edges. Yellow endpapers and pastedowns. Red sand-grain cloth. Both covers have borders blocked with three fillets in blind. On the upper cover, the central vignette us blocked as a hexagonal shaped gold lettering-piece. Inside it, four circular flower heads, and four ‘rose-like’ flower heads, together with eight leaves, are picked out in relief. The spine is blocked in gold. At the head and at the tail, four gold fillets are blocked across the spine. Near the head, the title: “/ Accidents/ of/ childhood/” is blocked in gold. Underneath this, a posy of a thistle, a clover leaf, a rose and fourth other leaves is blocked in gold.
- Production date
- 1866
- Dimensions
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Height: 156 millimetres
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Thickness: 17 millimetres
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Width: 105 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
Associated Title: Accidents of childhood, or cautionary stories for heedless children.
- Acquisition date
- 1992
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1992,0406.338
