print;
book;
book-illustration
- Museum number
- 1996,1104.1
- Description
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Andersen, Hans C. What the moon saw. And other tales. Translated by H. W./Dulcken, PhD. With one hundred and twenty illustrations by A. W. Bayes, engraved by the brothers Dalziel. London: George Routledge and Sons, Broadway, Ludgate Hill, 1871. [London:] Dalziel Brothers, engravers and printers, Camden Press. vii, 503p. The bookplate of Robin de Beaumont is on the front pastedown. Robin de Beaumont's notes regarding price and dating of this copy are written on the front endpaper verso, and also on a photocopy insert of the front cover design, from the Dalziel archive in BM P&D. The front endpaper is inscribed with the signatures: 1. [near the head] "Maggie Allen"; 2. [written diagonally across the middle of the endpaper] "Forrest Reid".
Binding: The design is signed by John Leighton. Binder's ticket on lower pastedown: "/ Bound/ by/ Leighton/ Son and/ Hodge./" Bevelled boards. Beige endpapers and pastedowns. Green sand-grain cloth. The lower cover is blocked in blind and in relief with border decoration. This consists of three fillets blocked in blind, the outermost being thin, and the two inner ones thicker. Between the two thicker fillets, a rule is blocked in relief, together with a repeating pattern of 'tulip flowers', with small dots also blocked in relief. The upper cover is blocked in gold and in black. It shows an overall design of plants and flowers, blocked in black, climbing from bottom left up the spine side, and diagonally up the cover, from lower left to right. The plants surround a roof, on which a cat sits, with its head turned towards us. Near the head, a blue dyed rectangular only is shown, with a single gold fillet, blocked on its perimeter. The title: "/ What the Moon saw./" [with the word: "the" underneath the word: "What"; and the word: "saw" underneath the word: "Moon"] is blocked in gold within this on lay, with the crossed capital "M" of "moon" being blocked in relief, within a moon-shaped gold lettering-piece. the sub-title: "/ and/ other tales/" is blocked in gold just beneath the blue on lay. Just beyond the roof, a red dyed sand-grain on lay is shown, in the shape of a chimney stack and chimney pot. Out of the chimney pot, the head and brush of a chimney sweep is blocked in black. with the sweep's right arm and hand extending to clean the dirt of the brush. The brickwork of the chimney stack is delineated in black. The base of the chimney pot is blocked in gold and in black. The word: "/ by/ is blocked in gold on the chimney pot. The words:/ " Hans C/ Andersen/" are blocked in gold within the bricks of the chimney stack. (It looks as though the black blocking of the chimney stack brickwork has been done after the gold blocking of the lettering, for some of the serifs of the letters are obscured by the black.) Signed: "L",(for John Leighton), with a single dot above the capital letter. The spine is blocked in gold and in black. From the head downwards, the decoration is: two five-pointed hatch gold stars; a 'double' moon - the smaller is a blue paper on lay, with the words: "/ What/ the/" blocked in gold within it; - the larger moon is blocked in gold, with hatching, and it surrounds the small blue paper on lay, with the words: "/ moon saw/ blocked in relief in a semi-circle within it; the sub-title: "/ & other tales/" as blocked in relief within a comet-shaped gold lettering-piece; the words: "/ by/ H. C. Andersen/" are blocked in black on the middle of the spine; a snail on a leaf are blocked in gold; near the tail, the word: "/Illustrated/" is blocked in black in elongated letters.
- Production date
- 1871
- Dimensions
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Thickness: 38 millimetres
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Width: 149 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Association name needed for Maggie Allen
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
Associated Title: What the moon saw and other tales
- Acquisition date
- 1992
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1996,1104.1