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The nobility of life, its graces and virtues : portrayed in prose and verse by the best writers / selected and edited by L. Valentine ; with twenty-four original pictures printed in colours, elaborate borders, headings, and vignettes.

Accession number
PML 142570
Creator
Valentine, L. (Laura), 1814-1899.
Published
London : Frederick Warne and Company ; New York : Scribner, Welford, and Co., 1869.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
"Dalziel Brothers, engravers & printers"--t.p. verso.
Illustrated with 24 color printed relief illustrations printed from wood and metal, 12 of them engraved and printed by Edmund Evans and 12 by J.M. Kronheim.
Illustrations, ornamental borders, and border vignettes designed by J.D. Watson, P. Hundley, H. Le Jeune, C. Green, J. Wolf, Francis Walker, A.B. Houghton, H.C. Selous, E. Buckman, E. Duncan, J.A. Pasquier, E.J. Poynter, T. Dalziel, J. Mahoney, Alfred Thompson, M.E. Edwards, Henry Warren, F.J. Skill, A.W. Cooper, H. French, E.H. Wehnert, T.D. Scott, T.W. Wood, and J.B. Zwecker.
Description
viii, 192 p., [24] leaves of plates : ill. (part. mounted and col.) ; 27 cm
Provenance
From the collection of Ruari McLean, bought from him in 1963 by Richard Blackwell; from the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Binding
Publisher's cloth blocked in gold, black and blind, by Burn & Co. with their ticket (Ball 20e).
Classification
Department