print;
book;
book-illustration
- Museum number
- 1992,0406.93
- Description
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Dulcken, Henry William. The Book of German Songs: from The Sixteenth to the Nineteenth Century. [in Gothic lettering]Translated and edited by H. W. Dulcken. London: Ward and Lock, 158, Fleet Street, 1856. [London:] Printed by Petter and Galpin, Playhouse Yard, adjoining the “times” office. 324p. 6 plates. Some of the plates are signed: "Dalziel". The plates dividing the groups of songs have been marked as being by Charles Keene. The plate printed on page 191 is entitled: “Vanitas vanitatum”, in reverse, and is signed “CK” [i.e. Charles Keene] Robin de Beaumont's notes regarding price and dating of this copy are written on the front endpaper verso and on a separate slip of paper. The bookplate of Robin de Beaumont is on the front pastedown.
Binding: The design is by John Leighton. Yellow endpapers and pastedowns. Binder’s ticket on lower pastedown: “/ Leighton/ Son &/ Hodge./ Shoe Lane/ London./” [Ball no. 53A] Blue morocco horizontal-grain cloth. Both covers are identically blocked in blind on borders and corners. A single fillet is blocked in blind on the borders, and then a curling stem and leaf pattern blocked in relief on the corners and on the sides. The upper cover has a central vignette blocked in gold, showing a youth, in a military uniform, seated on a branch, feather in a hat, holding a tankard in left hand and a sword in right hand. The title; "/ The/ Book of/ German Songs./" is blocked in gold, in rustic letters, above and below the youth. Signed "JL" in gold as a monogram at base of vignette. The spine is blocked in gold. A single gold fillet is blocked on the perimeter. From the head downwards, the decoration is: the point of an arch, with vine leaves; the title: “/ the/ Book/ of/ German/ Songs/” is blocked in gold, in gothic letters; A groups of objects is blocked in gold – a staff with vine stems winding around it, a hat atop the staff, a sword, a meerschaum pipe, vine leaves; signed “JL” in gold as separate letters underneath this group of objects; at the tail, the word “/ Illustrated/” is blocked in gold, within a rectangle formed by a single fillet.
- Production date
- 1856
- Dimensions
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Height: 190 millimetres
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Thickness: 28 millimetres
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Width: 130 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', p. 181.
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
Associated Title: The Book of German Songs
- Acquisition date
- 1992
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1992,0406.93
