print;
book;
book-illustration
- Museum number
- 1992,0406.340
- Description
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Rogers, Samuel. The pleasures of memory. London: Sampson Low, Son & Marston, Milton House, Ludgate Hill, [1865]. London: Printed by Edmund Evans, Raquet Court Fleet Street. 64p. The list of illustrators give the following artists: Samuel Palmer, J.D. Watson [i.e. John Dawson Watson], W. S Coleman [i.e. William Stephen Coleman], Alfred Cooper, E. M Wimperis [i.e. Edmund Morison Wimperis], Charles Green, J. W. Keyl [i.e. Friedrich Wilhelm Keyl]. 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. Yellow endpapers and pastedowns. Binder’s ticket on lower pastedown: “/ Bound/ by/ Leighton/ Son and/ Hodge./” [Ball no. 53B.] Red sand-grain cloth. Both covers are blocked with an identical pattern, the lower in blind and in relief, and the upper in gold and in blind and in relief. On the upper cover, a “dog-tooth” fillet is blocked in gold on the borders, and inside this, another fillet is blocked in gold, which has repeating dots blocked in relief within it. Two more fillets are blocked in blind on the inner borders, together with small ‘star’ medallions blocked in gold on each corner, and single leaves blocked in blind also. The central oval is formed by three fillets blocked in blind, and single leaves are blocked above and below it. Inside the oval the words: “/ The/ pleasures/ or/ memory/ [rule]/ Rogers/” are blocked in relief within a cartouche which has horizontal hatch blocked in gold, with the perimeter of each letter being highlighted with an outline blocked in relief. A Laurel leaves are blocked in gold above and below the cartouche. A lyre is blocked in gold above the cartouche. . The spine is blocked in gold and in relief. At the head and at the tail, “dog tooth” decoration, and a gold fillet (with repeating dots blocked in relief within it), are blocked in gold. Near the head, the words: “/ The/ pleasures/ of/ memory/ Rogers/” are blocked in relief within five gold lettering-pieces, each of which has a single fillet blocked in relief on its borders. The five lettering-pieces are all blocked within a gold horizontal-hatch lettering-piece shaped as a cartouche. Above this, a lyre on a plinth is blocked in gold. Below the cartouche, laurel leaves and stems are blocked in gold.
- Production date
- 1865
- Dimensions
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Height: 203 millimetres
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Thickness: 12 millimetres
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Width: 140 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
Associated Title: The pleasures of hope
- Acquisition date
- 1992
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1992,0406.340
