print;
illustrated book
- Museum number
- 2001,0729.32
- Description
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'The Poems of Oliver Goldsmith', edited by Robert Aris Willmott; illustrated book with forty colour-printed wood-engravings by Edmund Evans after Birket Foster and H Noel Humphreys; published by George Routledge and Co., London, 1859; with embossed red leather cover with black and gold decoration
- Production date
- 1859
- Dimensions
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Height: 172 millimetres (cover)
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Width: 235 millimetres (cover)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- The ornamental designs throughout the book were designed by H Noel Humphreys and engraved by Edmund Evans.
See Ruari Maclean, 'Victorian Book Design and Colour Printing', second edition, 1972, pp.179-80 for discussion of this book.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 2001
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 2001,0729.32
