print;
book;
book-illustration
- Museum number
- 1992,0406.339
- Description
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Roberts John S. The legendary ballads of England and Scotland. Compiled and edited by John S. Roberts (Editor of the Crown Edition of Burns’ works.) With original illustrations and a steel portrait. London: Frederick Warne and Co. Bedford Street, Covent Garden; New York: Scribner, Welford and Co., 1868. London: Savill, Edwards and Co., printers, Chandos Street, Covent Garden. xi, 628p. 12 plates. The frontispiece plate is a portrait entitled: “/ Dr. Percy/”Most of the plates are signed: “ E. Evans Sc./” [i.e. Edmund Evans]. The plates opposite pages 357, 462 and 580 are by Walter Crane; the plate opposite page 282 is by Alfred W Cooper; the plates opposite pages 227 and 351 are by James Abbott Pasquier; the plate opposite page 418 is by Edward Henry Corbould. Robin de Beaumont's notes regarding price and dating of this copy are written on the front endpaper verso and on a separate slip of paper. The bookplate of Robin de Beaumont is on the front paste down.
Binding: Gilt edges, Bevelled boards. Brown endpapers and pastedowns. Green sand-grain cloth. The lower cover is blocked in blind only, with two fillets on the outer and inner borders, and, between these, a pattern of ‘repeating ovals and four leaves’. Within each oval six leaves are blocked The same decoration is blocked on the borders of the upper cover, with the fillets being blocked in gold. The pattern between the four fillets is blocked in gold and in black onto a red on lay. Insider the central rectangle, groups of five leaves are blocked in black on the centre head, the centre tail, and the sides. The spine is blocked in gold and in black. At the head, a single fillet is blocked in gold across the spine. Above and below the title, arabesques are blocked in gold, with in fill decoration in gold and in black. The words: “/ Legendary/ Ballads/ English & Scottish/ [rule]/ Illustrated./” are blocked in gold. The “L” of “Legendary is blocked within a horizontal hatch gold lettering-piece, on a red cloth on lay. At the tail, the series title: / Chandos Poets/” is blocked in relief with in a rectangular gold lettering-piece, which has a single fillet blocked in relief on its borders, and there is also a hatch gold fillet blocked in gold outside this. The whole is surrounded by repeating gold dots and small leaves, blocked in gold.
- Production date
- 1868
- Dimensions
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Height: 195 millimetres
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Thickness: 50 millimetres
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Width: 150 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
Associated Title: The legendary ballads of England and Scotland.
- Acquisition date
- 1992
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1992,0406.339
