Accession number
PML 195794
Published
London, ca. 1868.
Credit line
Purchased on the Gordon N. Ray Fund, 2012.
Notes
Engraved block by the Dalziel Brothers after G.J. Pinwell, with a design created for an 1868 edition of 'The uncommercial traveller' published by Chapman & Hall.
Issued as part of a 23-volume set of the Nonesuch Dickens (London, 1937-8), designed by Francis Meynell. The edition was limited to 877 sets. Each set was accompanied by one of the plates or wood blocks originally used by Chapman and Hall, chiefly from 'The Charles Dickens edition' (1868-70), as well as one matted print from the accompanying plate or block.
Title from caption on print.
Surface of the block has been prepared with white.
Issued as part of a 23-volume set of the Nonesuch Dickens (London, 1937-8), designed by Francis Meynell. The edition was limited to 877 sets. Each set was accompanied by one of the plates or wood blocks originally used by Chapman and Hall, chiefly from 'The Charles Dickens edition' (1868-70), as well as one matted print from the accompanying plate or block.
Title from caption on print.
Surface of the block has been prepared with white.
Description
1 wood block : boxwood ; 123 x 87 mm; in case: 26 cm, + 1 print (wood engraving) :123 x 87 mm, in mat 25 x 15 cm
Provenance
Edwin B. Kolsby.
Binding
In purple cloth case with black morocco spine label lettered in gold: The Nonesuch Dickens. Plate.
Classification
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