print;
illustrated book;
frontispiece;
title-page;
newspaper/periodical
- Museum number
- 2005,0429.45
- Description
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Illustrated book, Alaric A Watts (ed.), 'The Literary Souvenir; or, Cabinet of Poetry and Romance' (London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown & Green, 1828); frontispiece, 'The Duke and Duchess Reading Don Quixote', after Leslie; engraved titlepage with vignette of Love torturing the Soul in a garland, after Wood; titlepage; dedication; preface; list of contents; list of the plates; 406 pages of literary contributions by various authors, with a wood-engraved head-piece and tail-piece after Wood; 11 plates: 'Juliet after the masquerade', after Thomson; 'Psyche borne by the zephyrs to the island of pleasure', after Wood; 'The return of a victorious armament to a Greek city', after Linton; 'Medora', after Pickersgill; 'The declaration', after Farrier; 'The thief discovered', after Chalon; 'The Ruby of the Philippine Isles', after Chalon; 'The stolen kiss', after Allan; 'Cleopatra embarking on the Cydnus', after Danby; 'A conversation', after Stothard; 'A fete champetre', after Danby. 1828
Volume bound in green leather, the spine stamped in gold; letterpress text with engraved and etched plates printed on chine collé, and wood-engraved vignettes
- Production date
- 1828
- Dimensions
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Height: 194 millimetres (approx. page size)
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Width: 127 millimetres (approx. page size)
- $Inscriptions
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- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
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Associated Title: The Literary Souvenir; or, Cabinet of Poetry and Romance
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Associated Title: Don Quijote de la Mancha
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Associated Title: Romeo and Juliet
- Acquisition date
- 2005
- Acquisition notes
- Credit should read: "In memory of Mary Ellen Evans. Presented by Julia Crookenden and Professor Michael C. Jaye, through the American Friends of the British Museum"
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 2005,0429.45
