print;
book;
book-illustration
- Museum number
- 1992,0406.398
- Description
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Willmott, Robert Aris. The poets of the nineteenth century. Illustrated with one hundred engravings drawn by eminent artists, and engraved by the Brothers Dalziel. London: George Routledge & Co. Farringdon Street; New York: 18, Beekman Street, 1857. London: Printed by Richard Clay, Bread Street Hill. Xv, 398p. In the ‘List of Illustrations, engraved by the Brothers Dalziel’, the following artists are given [full names give where possible]: Myles Birket Foster, William Harvey, John Gilbert, Arthur Hughes, William Harrison Weir, Thomas Dalziel, Edward Duncan, John Richard Clayton, James Godwin, J. D. Harding [i.e. possibly James Duffield Harding], George Dodgson, Ford Madox Brown, John Everett Millais, Frederick Richard Pickersgill, Edward Henry Corbould, D. Edwards (E. Dalziel?). The illustration on page 137 is after Millais, and accompanies the poem: “Coleridge. Love.” A letter from Ford Madox Brown to Edward Dalziel is tipped in at the front. The bookplate of Edward Dalziel is on the upper pastedown. Robin de Beaumont’s notes regarding the price of this copy are on the front endpaper recto. He has noted the following proof plates are in the Dalziel Brothers Archive for 1856: nos. 1030-1129. The bookplate of Robin de Beaumont is on the upper pastedown.
Binding: Gilt edges. Bevelled boards. Text sewn on four sawn-in cords. Marbled endpapers and pastedowns. Binder’s stamp on upper endpaper verso: “/ Bound by Hayday/”. Stamp size: 25x1mm. Binder’s ticket on lower endpaper recto: “/ Hand bound/ E. A. Weeks/ & Son/ London/” [It is possible that E. A. Weeks & Son carried out repairs to the original binding by Hayday.] Ticket size: 18x12mm. Brown full morocco. An identical ‘panel’ design with ‘lotus leaf’ corner-pieces is tooled in blind on both covers. The spine is divided into five panels by raised bands. Floral patterns are tooled in panels one, four and five. Panels two and three have the words: “/ Poets of the/ nineteenth century/ Willmott/” tooled in gold.
- Production date
- 1857
- Dimensions
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Height: 230 millimetres
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Thickness: 37 millimetres
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Width: 175 millimetres
- Curator's comments
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James Hayday, of London: http://special.lib.gla.ac.uk/exhibns/bindings/
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E.A. Weeks & Son not in Packer, Maurice. Bookbinders of Victorian London, 1991.
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
Associated Title: The poets of the nineteenth century.
- Acquisition date
- 1992
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1992,0406.398
