Accession number
PML 89018
Creator
Morris, F. O. (Francis Orpen), 1810-1893.
Published
New York : G. Routledge & Sons, 416 Broome Street ; London : Messrs. S.W. Partridge & Co., 9 Paternoster Row , [187?]
Credit line
Gift of LIncoln Kirstein, 1979.
Notes
"Watson and Hazell, Printers, London and Aylesbury"--verso of t.p.
Publisher's advertisement on 16 pages following the text.
Thirty full-page engraved illustrations, including frontispiece, printed on one side only, and numerous vignettes, including t.p. vignette, variously signed: "After Sir E. Landseer", Herrick del., H. Weir, R.H. Moore, W.H. Pigott, J.W., J. Greenaway, J. Johnston, Fellmann, A.T. Elwes, R. Kretschmer, and W.J. Webb.
Frontispiece and t.p. framed by rules, printed in red. Text printed within double rules.
Half title.
"To Walter, from Papa - Xmas, 1873"--inscription on fly-leaf.
Publisher's advertisement on 16 pages following the text.
Thirty full-page engraved illustrations, including frontispiece, printed on one side only, and numerous vignettes, including t.p. vignette, variously signed: "After Sir E. Landseer", Herrick del., H. Weir, R.H. Moore, W.H. Pigott, J.W., J. Greenaway, J. Johnston, Fellmann, A.T. Elwes, R. Kretschmer, and W.J. Webb.
Frontispiece and t.p. framed by rules, printed in red. Text printed within double rules.
Half title.
"To Walter, from Papa - Xmas, 1873"--inscription on fly-leaf.
Description
[4], 170, 16 p. : ill. (engravings) ; 21.5 x 17.5 cm
Provenance
From the library of Lincoln Kirstein.
Binding
Publisher's green morocco-grain cloth, blocked in gold, black, and blind, with a color lithograph of a cat inlaid on front cover; with beveled edges and yellow endpapers.
Classification
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Department