print;
book;
book-illustration
- Museum number
- 1992,0406.421
- Description
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Wordsworth, William. Poems. Selected and edited by Robert Aris Willmott. Illustrated with one hundred designs by Birket Foster [i.e. Myles Birket Foster], J. Wolf [i.e. Joseph Wolf], and John Gilbert. Engraved by the Brothers Dalziel. London: George Routledge & Co. Farringdon Street; New York: 18, Beekman Street, 1859. London: Richard Clay, printer, Bread Street Hill. [14], 388p. 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. 1545-1654. The frontispiece is after Birket Foster, and is captioned: “/ Lower Fall, Rydal./”The bookplate of Robin de Beaumont is on the upper pastedown.
Binding: The cover design is after Albert Henry Warren. Gilt edges. Bevelled boards. Yellow endpapers and pastedowns. Bookseller’s label on upper pastedown: “/ Croydon/ Bookseller/ Torquay./” Binder’s ticket on lower pastedown: “/ Leighton/ Son &/ Hodge/ Shoe Lane/ London./” [Ball no.53A.] Blue morocco horizontal-grain cloth. Both covers blocked identically with large border frames of interlocking semi-circles blocked in gold between four gold fillets. Above and below the central circle, a pattern of ‘morning glory’/ passion plant flowers and leaves is blocked in relief and in gold, with background spaces being recessed. The central circle has a wide border of gold with patterns of leaves and buds blocked in relief within it. The words: “/ Poems by/ William/ Wordsworth/” are blocked in gold, in ‘branch-like’ letters. Signed “A W” as initials in gold at the base of the circle. The spine is blocked in gold. At the head, the same border decoration on the covers is repeated. Down the spine, within panels formed by gold fillets, groups of passion plant stems and tendrils and flowers are blocked in gold. On the upper half of the spine, the words:”/ Poems/ by/ William Wordsworth/” are blocked in gold. The word”:/ Illustrated/” is blocked in gold in the middle of the spine. At the tail, within a rectangle formed by a single gold fillet, the words: “/ Routledge & Co./” are blocked in gold, and these are surrounded by small decoration blocked in gold. In the middle of the spine the monogram “AW” [i.e. Albert Warren] is blocked in gold, within a circle formed by a gold fillet.
- Production date
- 1859
- Dimensions
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Height: 233 millimetres
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Thickness: 40 millimetres
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Width: 180 millimetres
- Curator's comments
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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.
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For descriptive details of this book, see: Ball, Douglas. Victorian publishers’ bindings. London, Library Association, 1985, Appendix D, Cover designs by major designers.
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
Associated Title: Poems
- Acquisition date
- 1992 (bookplate)
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1992,0406.421
