print;
book;
book-illustration
- Museum number
- 1992,0406.390
- Description
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Vaughan, Herbert, pseud.[ i.e. Vaughan Morgan]. The Cambridge Grisette. Illustrated by Charles Keene [i.e. Charles Samuel Keene]. London: Tinsley Brothers, 18, Catherine St., Strand, 1862. London: Bradbury and Evans, printers, Whitefriars. 139p. 8 plates. The frontispiece is entitled: “The Cambridge Grisette”. It is signed “Swain Sc” [i. e. Joseph Swain] Some of the plates are also signed “Swain Sc”. /” Robin de Beaumont's notes regarding price and dating of this copy are written on the front endpaper verso. The bookplate of Robin de Beaumont is on the front paste down.
Binding: Gilt edges. Blue pebble-grain cloth. Light yellow endpapers and pastedowns. The borders of both covers are blocked identically, in blind and relief on the lower cover and in gold and in relief on the upper cover. On the upper cover, three fillets are blocked in gold, with the middle fillet having repeating dots blocked in relief within it. The upper cover central vignette is blocked in gold. It shows the figures of the Cambridge Grisette and the Proctor. The spine is blocked in gold. At the head and at the tail, fillets and repeating dots are blocked in gold, together with small arabesques blocked in gold with small decoratoin blocked in relief within them. The title and author are blocked on the upper and lower half of the spine: “/ The/ Cambridge/ Grisette/ [an arabesque is blocked between
- Production date
- 1862
- Dimensions
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Height: 190 millimetres
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Thickness: 17 millimetres
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Width: 148 millimetres
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
Associated Title: The Cambridge Grisette.
- Acquisition date
- 1992
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1992,0406.390