Accession number
PML 142474
Creator
Baxter, George, 1804-1867.
Published
London : Chapman & Hall, Strand, [1836]
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Illustrations include color-printed frontispiece, t.p. vignette, and 9 color-printed plates.
Date of publication suggested by preface on p. [v]-xvi, giving a brief history of color printing and George Baxter's process, and signed and dated: C. 1st Nov. 1836.
Prose and poetry by J. Collier and Miss Landon.
"London: Bradbury and Evans, printers, Whitefriars."--Colophon.
Plates engraved and printed in color by George Baxter, after works by George Barnard, Fanny Corbaux, James Holland, George Jones, H.W. Pickersgill, Samuel Prout, Louisa Sharpe (later Mrs. Seyffarth), Richard Westall, and William Westall.
Date of publication suggested by preface on p. [v]-xvi, giving a brief history of color printing and George Baxter's process, and signed and dated: C. 1st Nov. 1836.
Prose and poetry by J. Collier and Miss Landon.
"London: Bradbury and Evans, printers, Whitefriars."--Colophon.
Plates engraved and printed in color by George Baxter, after works by George Barnard, Fanny Corbaux, James Holland, George Jones, H.W. Pickersgill, Samuel Prout, Louisa Sharpe (later Mrs. Seyffarth), Richard Westall, and William Westall.
Description
[2], xvi, 71, [1] p., [10] leaves of plates : col. ill. (Baxter prints) ; 26 cm.
Provenance
Bookplate of C. Robert Bignold; from the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Binding
Publisher's dark red gilt stamped morocco with red, orange, and green onlays.
Classification
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