print;
book;
book-illustration
- Museum number
- 1992,0406.362
- Description
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Songs of the brave. The soldier’s dream, and other poems and odes by Campbell, Wolfe, Collins, Byron, Tennyson, and Mackay. Illustrated with twenty-six engravings, from drawings by Edward Duncan, Birket Foster [i.e. Myles Birket Foster], George Thomas [i.e. probably George Housman Thomas] , etc. [Monogram of Joseph Cundall.] London: Sampson, Low, Son & Co., 47 Ludgate Hill. [London:] R. Clay, printers, Bread Street Hill. 46p. With two pages of publisher’s titles bound at the end. In the [list of] Illustrations, the artist not listed on the title page is A. Huttala. ‘The Head and Tail Pieces drawn by Thomas Macquoid. Engraved by Horace Harral, Edmund Evans, and James Cooper.’ The Illustration on page 38 is after A. Huttala, with the caption in the List of Illustrations: ‘Ring the joy-bells, light the blaze.’; and on page 38 the title is: ‘The joy-bell and the requiem’. The bookplate of Robin de Beaumont is on the upper pastedown.
Binding: The upper cover vignette is after William Harry Rogers. Gilt edges. Yellow endpapers and pastedowns. Blue wave diagonal-grain cloth. Both covers blocked identically in blind. Three fillets are blocked in blind on the borders. A pattern of intertwined stems and leaves is blocked on each corner, together with a laurel wreath on each corner. Stems and leaves are blocked on each side. [This is the same blocking as for RdeB.K.24.] The upper cover vignette is blocked in gold. It shows stems forming a circle, with small leaves and buds off the stems. The title: "/ The Soldier's Dream [in a semi-circle]/ and/ Other Poems./" is blocked in gold in gothic letters above and below the centre. On the centre, a hussar's helmet, a sword, and an anchor are all blocked in gold. Signed "WHR" in gold as a monogram at the base of the vignette. The spine is blocked in gold. The title: "/ The/ Soldier's/ Dream./ &c./" is blocked in gold in gothic letters, with branch, stem, and leaf decoration blocked between, above and below the letters.
- Production date
- 1856
- Dimensions
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Height: 202 millimetres
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Thickness: 10 millimetres
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Width: 140 millimetres
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
Associated Title: Songs of the brave. The soldier’s dream, and other poems and odes
- Acquisition date
- 1992
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1992,0406.362
