print;
book;
book-illustration
- Museum number
- 1996,1104.07
- Description
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Collier, Joseph Avery. The young men of the Bible. A series of papers biographical and suggestive. Edinburgh: William P. Nimmo, 1872. Edinburgh and London: Printed by Ballantyne and Company. 220p. 5 plates. With twenty-four pages of publisher’s titles bound at the end. The frontispiece plate has a caption: “Joseph in prison”. The plate is signed: “J Lawson” [i.e. John Lawson] and ”R Paterson Sc.” [i.e. Robert PAterson] Robin de Beaumont's notes regarding price and dating of this copy are written on the recto of the frontispiece plate. front endpaper verso. The bookplate of Robin de Beaumont is on the front pastedown.
Binding: Gilt edges. Bevelled boards. Brown endpapers and pastedowns. Red sand-grain cloth. The lower cover is blocked in blind in gold and in relief. A single fillet is blocked in blind on the borders. On the centre, the medallion is blocked in gold, with sprigs of laurel leaves and branches blocked in gold around the medallion. Within the outer band of the medallion, the words: “/ West of Scotland Institution, Glasgow./” are blocked in relief. The upper cover is blocked in gold and in black. Two gold fillets and a single black fillet are blocked on the outer borders. The inner border shows a ‘folding card’ repeating pattern, with each card blocked alternately in gold and in black, between two fillets blocked in gold. On the corners, four leaves are blocked in gold, each within a square formed by a single gold and a single black fillet. Inside this, a single fillet is blocked in black. The central vignette is blocked in gold and in black, showing an octagon, with fillets on its borders in gold and in black, and a pattern of small repeating leaves between the two gold fillets. The title:/ “ Young/ men/ of the/ Bible/” are blocked in gold on the centre. The spine is blocked in gold and in black. From the head downwards, the decoration is: a black and a gold fillet, across the spine; a quatrefoil, within a panel formed by two gold fillets; the title words: “/ Young/ men/ of the/ Bible/” are blocked in gold within a panel formed by two gold fillets, which are semi-circular at its head and at its tail; black and gold arabesques are blocked within a long panel formed by two gold and one black fillet; a semi-circular panel formed by two gold fillets, with small stylised decoration in gold within it; the word: “/ W. P. Nimmo/” is blocked in gold near the tail; a rectangular panel is formed by three fillets, one black and two gold, with small decoration blocked in gold within it. One gold and one black fillet at the tail.
- Production date
- 1872
- Dimensions
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Height: 168 millimetres
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Thickness: 20 millimetres
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Width: 110 millimetres
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
Associated Title: The young men of the Bible
- Acquisition date
- 1996
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1996,1104.07