print;
book;
book-illustration
- Museum number
- 1996,1104.46
- Description
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The sunlight of song. A collection of sacred and moral poems. With Original Music by the most eminent English composers. Profusely illustrated with engravings by the Brothers Dalziel, from designs by our best artists. London and New York: Novello, Ewer, and Co.; George Routledge and sons, 1875. [London:] Dalziel Brothers, engravers & printers Camden Press. It the Contents, the illustrators are given as [full names given where possible]: Edward Gurden Dalziel, [possibly] Robert Winchester Fraser, John Gordon Thomson, Townley Green, Johann Baptist Zwecker, George John Pinwell, W. J. Wiegand, Thomas Dalziel, Henry French, [probably] Francis Arthur Anderson Fraser, William Small, Thomas Sulman, James Mahoney, [possibly] Francis Sylvester Walker. 6,142p. 1 Plate With four pages of publisher’s titles bound at the end. The frontispiece plate shows a family gathered round a piano, all singing together. It is signed: “Dalziel Sc/”. The illustration on page 2 is after Edward Gurden Dalziel, Signed: “EGD”, and captioned: “The four seasons”. Robin de Beaumont’s notes regarding the price of this copy are on the front endpaper recto.The bookplate of Robin de Beaumont is on the upper pastedown.
Binding: Bevelled boards. Gilt edges. Red fine diagonal-grain cloth. The lower cover is blocked in blind and in relief only. Three fillets are blocked on the borders, with squares on the corners, on the centre sides and the centre head and centre tail. Within each square, a cross is blocked in relief. The central vignette is a diamond shape, showing small decoration within it, blocked in relief. The upper cover is blocked in gold and in black. A panel design, with fillets and straps blocked in gold on the borders and the corners. Elaborate inner borders, delineated by fillets blocked in gold and in black, with a leaf and stem repeating pattern as an inner border. Black squares are blocked on the centre sides, head and tail, in which eight petalled flowers are blocked in gold, with veins picked out in red. The title words: “/ The [in gold]/ Sunglight [in black within a rectangular gold lettering-piece, with two gold fillets on its borders]/ of [in gold]/ Song [ blocked in black and in gold]/” are blocked on the upper half of the cover. A lyre is blocked in gold on the lower half of the cover. The spine is blocked in gold and in black. At the head and at the tail, a single black fillet is blocked across the spine. A single gild fillet is blocked on the perimeter of the spine. Three squares, blocked in black, are blocked at the head, the lower middle and at the tail of the spine, in which eight petalled flowers are blocked in gold. On the upper half of the spine, the title words: “/ The/ [blocked in gold]/ Sunlight/ of/ Song [blocked in relief within a gold rectangular lettering-piece]/” are blocked. A star and a lyre are blocked in gold on the lower half of the spine.
- Production date
- 1875
- Dimensions
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Height: 270 millimetres
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Thickness: 20 millimetres
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Width: 185 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
Associated Title: The sunlight of song. A collection of sacred and moral poems
- Acquisition date
- 1996
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1996,1104.46
