print;
book-illustration;
book
- Museum number
- 1992,0406.47
- Description
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Burns, Robert. Poems and Songs. With original illustrations by R. Herdman, Gourlay Steell, Waller H. Paton [i,e. Waller Hugh Paton], Mrs. D. O. Hill [i.e Amelia Robertson Hill, second wife of D. O. Hill, nee Amelia Robertson Paton, sister of Sir Noel Paton and Waller Hugh Paton] , Samuel Bough, John McWhirter, and other eminent Scottish artists. Engraved by R. Paterson [i.e. possibly Robert Paterson]. Edinburgh: William P. Nimmo, 1868. Edinburgh: Printed by R. & R. Clark. xviii, 336p. In the [list of] Illustrations, the artists, not mentioned on the title page, are stated to be: J. Lawson [i.e. John Lawson], Miss A. E. MacWhirter, [.i.e. Agnes Eliza McWhirter], E. J. Douglas [i.e. Edwin James Douglas], George Hay, J. Cassie [i.e. James Cassie], Clark Stanton [i.e. George Clark Stanton], D.O. Hill, [i.e. David Octavius Hill], J. O. Brown, C. A. Doyle [i.e. Charles Altamont Doyle], W. F. Vallance [i.e. William Fleming Vallance], J. B. Macdonald [i.e. John Blake Macdonald], W. McTaggart [i.e. William McTaggart], W. E. Lockhart [i.e. William Ewart Lockhart]. Robin de Beaumont's notes regarding price and dating of this copy are written on the front endpaper verso. Inscribed on the half title page recto: “H. P. Gillard/ Camb: Oct/[18]87./” The bookplate of Robin de Beaumont is on the front paste down.
Binding: Gilt edges. Bevelled boards. Marbled endpapers and pastedowns. Coloured head and tail bands. Full red morocco, with roll tool gilt patterns on the turn-ins. Both covers are blocked identically in gold. Three gold fillets are blocked on the outer borders. A single thin, gold dotted fillet is blocked to form the inner border, with a group of thistles blocked on each corner. The title: “/ Poems and songs./ [ decorative rule]/ Robert Burns./” are blocked in gold in semi-circular fashion. The spine is divided into six panels by raised bands. Panels one, and three to six are identically blocked in gold: a single dotted fillet forms a rectangle with a thistle at each corner, and a group of five thistle heads and three thistle leaves, centred within the panel. Panel two has the title: “/ Poems & Songs/ [rile]/ Robert Burns/”
- Production date
- 1868
- Dimensions
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Height: 235 millimetres
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Thickness: 53 millimetres
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Width: 185 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
Associated Title: Poems and Songs
- Acquisition date
- 1992
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1992,0406.47
