print;
book;
book-illustration
- Museum number
- 1992,0406.401
- Description
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Willmott, Robert Eldridge Aris. Summer time in the country. Illustrated edition. London: George Routledge & Co. Farringdon Street. New York: 18 Beekman Street, 1858. London: Printed by Richard Clay, Bread Street Hill. vii, 216p. The heading to the "List of illustrations" reads: "From drawings by Birket Foster [i.e. Myles Birket Foster], Harrison Weir [i.e. Harrison William Weir], and John M. Carrick [i.e. probably John Mulcaster Carrick]. Engraved by the Brothers Dalziel.” 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 1858: nos. 175-219. The bookplate of Robin de Beaumont is on the upper pastedown.
Binding: Text sewn on three cords. The design is not signed. Bevelled boards. Gilt edges. Yellow endpapers and pastedowns. Binder's ticket on lower pastedown: "/ Leighton/ Son &/ Hodge,/ Shoe Lane/ London./" [Ball no. 53A.] Green morocco horizontal-grain cloth. The same design is blocked on both covers. The lower cover is blocked in blind. The two fillets blocked in blind on the borders are "spiked" to resemble rose branches. Patterns of roses and rose leaves are blocked in relief on the corners. The centre piece contains the author and title lettering, blocked in blind. The upper cover is fully blocked in gold, with the addition of a leaf pattern blocked in blind and in relief around the oval centre piece. The words: "/ Summer Time/ In The Country/ by/ The Revd. R.A. Willmott/" are blocked in gold in elaborate gothic letters, with the capital letters being blocked in relief within rectangular gold lettering-pieces. The spine is blocked in gold. A single gold fillet, resembling "rose-branch", is blocked on the perimeter. From the head downwards, the decoration is: roses blocked in gold; a fillet; the title: "/ Summer/ Time/ In The/ Country/"; a pattern of hatched leaves and thin stems in gold; roses are blocked near the tail; a gold fillet, resembling a "rose-branch" is blocked at the tail.
- Production date
- 1858
- Dimensions
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Height: 206 millimetres
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Thickness: 27 millimetres
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Width: 160 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- BL copy is at shelf mark 1346.g.34. See: https://www.bl.uk/catalogues/bookbindings/LargeImage.aspx?RecordId=020-000021455&ImageId=ImageId=58971&Copyright=BL
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
Associated Title: Summer time in the country.
- Acquisition date
- 1992
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1992,0406.401
