print;
book;
book-illustration
- Museum number
- 1992,0406.392
- Description
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Watts, Isaac. Divine and Moral Songs for children. Illustrated. London: Sampson Low, Son, and Marston, 1866. 116p. In the ‘List of Illustrations’, the following artists are given [full names give where possible]: Thomas Dewell Scott, [probably] Thomas Kennedy, A J Waudby, [probably] Walter James Allen, Robert Barnes, William Small, Hugh Cameron, Richard Principal Leitch, William Harrison Weir, Edward Morison Wimperis, J. Lee. From the Preface: “…the whole of the Illustrations have been arranged and engraved under the entire direction of Mr. James D. [i.e. Davis] Cooper.” The frontispiece portrait of Watts is after Thomas Dewell Scott. The title-page is after Thomas Kennedy. The illustration on page 27 is after A. J. Waudby, accompanying the verse: Praise to God for our Redemption.”
Robin de Beaumont’s notes regarding the price of this copy are on the front endpaper recto. The bookplate of Robin de Beaumont is on the upper pastedown.
Binding: Bevelled boards. Gilt edges. Yellow endpapers and pastedowns. Binders tiekt on lower pastedown: “/ Bound by/ Bone & Son/ [rule]/ 76, Fleet Street,/ London./2 [Ball no. 17A.] Green pebble-grain cloth. The lower cover has a frame of three fillets blocked in blind. On the centre, a multi-petaled flower is blocked in blind, with some of its decoration being picked out in relief. The upper cover has outer and inner frame borders, formed by fillets blocked in gold. There are fleur-de-lis blocked on each corner, each picked out in relief within an oval, against a gold hatch background. On the centre, within a decorated mandorla, the title words: “/ Watts’s/ Divine & Moral/ Songs/” are blocked in relief within three scroll-shaped gold lettering-pieces. The spine is blocked in gold. Gold fillets and small decoration are blocked across the spine at the head. Within a cartouche gold lettering-piece blocked along the spine, the words: “/ Watt’s Divine & Moral Songs./” are blocked in relief. At each end of the cartouche, tassels are blocked in gold.
- Production date
- 1866
- Dimensions
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Height: 210 millimetres
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Thickness: 14 millimetres
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Width: 160 millimetres
- Curator's comments
- For descriptive details of the binder’s ticket, see: Ball, Douglas. Victorian publishers’ bindings. London, Library Association, 1985, Appendix E, Nineteenth Century Edition Binders’ Signatures.
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
Associated Title: Divine and Moral Songs for children.
- Acquisition date
- 1992
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1992,0406.392