print;
book;
book-illustration
- Museum number
- 1992,0406.394
- Description
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Watts, John George. Little lays for little folk. Illustrated. London: George Routledge & Sons, The Broadway, Ludgate Hill; New York, 416 Broome Street, 1867. London: R. Clay, Son & Taylor, printers. In the ‘List of Illustrations’, the following artists are given [full names given where possible]: Robert Barnes, [possibly) Thomas Kennedy, Edward Morison Wimperis, Frederick William Keyl, William Small, [probably] Walter James Allen, R. Moore, Jules Cheret, William Lawson, Charles Green, [possibly] Thomas Harrington Wilson. At the end of the Preface: ‘arranged and engraved under the entire direction of Mr. James D. Cooper. [i.e. James Davis Cooper]’ The frontispiece is after Robert Barnes, and signed with his monogram, and is captioned in the [List of] Contents: ‘ Innocent Child and Snow-white Flower’. Bookseller’s oval stamp on upper endpaper recto: “/ John Field/ Bookseller/ 66/ Regent St./” Size of stamp: 25x15mm. 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: Gilt edges. Bevelled boards. Yellow endpapers and pastedowns. Binder’s ticket on lower pastedown: “/ Bound by/ W. Bone & Son./ 76, Fleet St./ London, E. C./” [Ball no. 17D.] On the lower cover, there are three fillets blocked in blind on the borders, with a floral central vignette, blocked in blind and in relief. On the upper cover, roses are blocked in gold on each corner, with branches blocked on the perimeter. The central oval is formed by branches. The title words are blocked in relief within four scroll-shaped gold lettering-pieces: “/ Little/ Lays/ for/ Little Folk/” The words are surrounded by more floral decoration, with the detail of the flowers, leaves and stems, being picked out in relief. The Spine is blocked in gold and in relief. A single ‘branch-like’ fillet is blocked on the perimeter. The title words: “/ Little Lays for little Folk/ are blocked in relief within a hatch gold ‘wavy-grain’ cartouche, with small rose decoration at each end. At the tail, the word: “/ Routledge/” is blocked in gold.
- Production date
- 1867
- Dimensions
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Height: 200 millimetres
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Thickness: 20 millimetres
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Width: 155 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: Little lays for little folks.
- Acquisition date
- 1992
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1992,0406.394
