print;
book;
book-illustration
- Museum number
- 1996,1104.44
- Description
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Scott, Sir Walter. Poetical works. Including Introduction and Notes. With original illustrations engraved by the Dalziel Brothers. London: Frederick Warne and Co. Bedford Street, Covent Garden; New York: Scribner, Welford and Co., 1868. London: Savill Edwards and Co., printers Chandos Street. viii, 640p. 10 plates. The frontispiece plate is a portrait of Walter Scott. Of the ten plates, Robin de Beaumont has identified four by James Abbot Pasquier: (the plates opposite pages 34, 96, 148, 190, which have his monogram), Arthur Boyd Houghton, James Mahoney (plate opposite page 377, which has his monogram). The plate opposite page 34 is entitled: “/ Yet not Lord Cranstoun deign’d she greet,/ Though now he kneeled at her feet./ Lay of the Last Minstral./” Robin de Beaumont's notes regarding price and dating of this copy are written on the front endpaper verso. This volume is one of the “Chandos Poets” series. The bookplate of Robin de Beaumont is on the front paste down.
Binding: Test sewn on three sawn-in cords. Gilt edges. Bevelled boards. Brown endpapers and pastedowns. Binder’s ticket on lower pastedown: “Bound by/ Burn & Co./ Kirby St./ E. C./” [Ball no. 20A – variant] Green sand-grain cloth. The lower cover is blocked in blind only, with four fillets to the outer and inner borders, with a repeating pattern of ‘ovals and leaves blocked between them. The upper cover is blocked in gold and in black. Four fillets are blocked on the outer and inner borders. Between them a wide red dyed paper on lay is placed, and blocked in gold and in black with a repeating pattern of ovals and leaves blocked in gold on the on lay. Within each oval, two leaves and four buds are blocked in gold. On the inner and outer edge of the on lay, repeating patterns are blocked in black. On the perimeter of the inner rectangle, groups of five leaves are blocked, one at the centre head and the centre tail, and two on the sides. The spine is blocked in gold. At the head, a single gold vertical hatch fillet is blocked across the spine. The on the upper half of the spine the words: “/ Scott’s/ Poetical/ Works/ [rule]/ Illustrated./” are blocked in gold, within a square formed by a single gold fillet. The capital “S” of Scott is a red paper on lay, blocked with horizontal gold hatch around it. Around the title, there is decoration in gold. Above and below the title, Arabesques are blocked with their border patterns blocked in gold, and with dots and other symbols blocked in gold, which are surrounded by decoration blocked in black. (This resembles a stylised tree.) At the tail, the words: “/ Chandos Poets./” are blocked in relief within a rectangular gold lettering-piece. A hatch gold fillet surrounds these letters, with dots and decoration above and below the lettering-piece.
- Production date
- 1868
- Dimensions
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Height: 185 millimetres
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Thickness: 52 millimetres
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Width: 140 millimetres
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
Associated Title: Poetical Works
- Acquisition date
- 1996
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1996,1104.44
