print;
book;
book-illustration
- Museum number
- 1992,0406.363
- Description
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Southgate, Henry. What men have said about woman. A Collection of Choice Thoughts and Sentences. Compiled and arranged alphabetically. With illustrations by J. D. Watson [ i.e. John Dawson Watson] London: Routledge, Warne & Routledge, Broadway, Ludgate Hill, 1865. London: Cox and Wyman, oriental, classical and general printers, Great Queen Street. xxviii, 320p. 8 plates. Most of the plates are signed “J D W” and “Dalziel Sc”. The frontispiece plate is entitled: “/ Woman – as a Maiden./” Robin de Beaumont's notes regarding price and dating of this copy are written on the front endpaper verso, and on a separate paper slip. The bookplate of Robin de Beaumont is on the front paste down.
Binding: Test sewn on three sawn-in cords. Gilt edges. Bevelled boards. Dark green endpapers and pastedowns. Bookseller’s label on upper pastedown: “/ S & T Gilbert/ Booksellers/ 4, Copthall Buildings/ Back of the Bank./” Bookbinder’s ticket on lower pastedown: “/ Bound by/ Burn/ 37 & 38/ Kirby St/” [Ball no. 20A.] Blue sand-grain cloth. On the lower cover, three fillets are blocked on the borders in blind. The same three fillets are blocked on the upper cover, in gold. On the upper cover, the central vignette is a diamond-shape formed by a single gold fillet and four fleurs-de-lis. The title words: “/ What/ men/ have said/ about/ woman/” are blocked in gold within the diamond. The spine is blocked in gold. Three fillets are blocked in gold across the spine at the head and at the tail. Near the head, the title words: “/ What/ men/ have said/ about/ woman/” are blocked in gold. Underneath the title and near the tail, single fillets are blocked in gold across the spine. There are two ‘pyramids’ of fifteen gold dots grouped just below the title and above the tail.
- Production date
- 1865
- Dimensions
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Height: 185 millimetres
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Thickness: 32 millimetres
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Width: 130 millimetres
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
Associated Title: What men have said about woman.
- Acquisition date
- 1992
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1992,0406.363
