print;
book;
book-illustration
- Museum number
- 1996,1104.24
- Description
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Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth. Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie. Illustrated with forty-five engravings on wood, from designs by Jane E. Benham, Birket Foster [i.e. Myles Birket Foster], and John Gilbert.London: David Bogue, 86, Fleet Street, 1850. London: Henry Vizetelly, Printer and Engraver, Gough Square, Fleet Street. vii, 102p. With two pages of publishers’ titles bound at the end. The illustration on page 1 is after Myles Birket Foster and is engraved by Henry Vizetelly. Robin de Beaumont’s notes regarding price and dating of this copy are on front endpaper verso and on a separate slip of paper. The bookplate of Robin de Beaumont is on the front paste down.
Binding: Gilt Edges. Bevelled boards. Light blue/green endpapers and pastedowns. Bookseller’s ticket on front pastedown: “/ Godwin/ Bookseller/ Bath./” Yellow printed paper over boards. The spine is of white rib horizontal-grain cloth. Both covers are printed with a pattern of curling stems, tendrils and leaves. Each cover has a central roundel. The roundel on the lower covers shows the an angel, holding a rectangular plaque, with the word: “Patience” printed within it. The vorders of this roundel are chains. The upper cover roundel shows a young couple, standing on a hill top, gazing out over a sea bay, which has ships anchored. The title words: “/ Evangeline/ A Tale of Acadie/” are printed in Gothic letters above and below the roundels on each cover. Signed on both covers, CH (or HC) as a monogram near the centre tail. The spine is of white rib horizontal-grain cloth, with the title words: “/ Evangeline/ Illustrated/ [rule]/ Lomgfellow/” blocked in gold at the head, which are between two gold fillets blocked across the spine.
- Production date
- 1850
- Dimensions
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Height: 210 millimetres
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Thickness: 20 millimetres
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Width: 145 millimetres
- Curator's comments
- The British Library copy is at:11688.g.22.
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- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
Associated Title: Evangeline. A tale of Acadie.
- Acquisition date
- 1996
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1996,1104.24