Accession number
PML 89050
Published
London : Frederick Warne and Company, Bedford Street, Covent Garden ; New York : Scribner, Welford, and Co., 1869.
Credit line
Gift of Lincoln Kirstein, 1979.
Notes
"Dalziel Brothers Engravers & Printers, Camden Press"--device on verso of t.p.
Twenty-four full-page illustrations: paper onlays mounted on the leaf with engraved gilt frame and caption, color-printed and wood engraved, and drawn by J.D. Watson, H. Le Jeune, C. Green, Francis Walker, H.C. Selous, E. Duncan, E.J. Poynter, J. Mahoney, Alfred Thompson, M.E. Edwards, Henry Warren, F.J. Skill, A.W. Cooper, and E.H. Wehnert.
Twelve are engraved and printed by Edmund Evans, and the other twelve by J.M. Kronheim.
"The Titles, Flower and Ornamental Borders drawn by P. Hundley. The Border Vignettes by E. Buckman, T. Dalziel, P. Hundley, T.D. Scott, J. Wolf, Francis Walker, T.W. Wood, and J.B. Zwecker. Engraved by the Brothers Dalziel"--p. viii.
The illustrations are accompanied by blank guard sheets.
Half title.
T.p. printed in red and black, framed by ornamental border in gold.
Text printed within various ornamental borders.
Publisher's advertisements on two pages following the text.
"Miss Lillie, Christmas 1871, H.M.T?.A."--inscription in black ink on half title.
Twenty-four full-page illustrations: paper onlays mounted on the leaf with engraved gilt frame and caption, color-printed and wood engraved, and drawn by J.D. Watson, H. Le Jeune, C. Green, Francis Walker, H.C. Selous, E. Duncan, E.J. Poynter, J. Mahoney, Alfred Thompson, M.E. Edwards, Henry Warren, F.J. Skill, A.W. Cooper, and E.H. Wehnert.
Twelve are engraved and printed by Edmund Evans, and the other twelve by J.M. Kronheim.
"The Titles, Flower and Ornamental Borders drawn by P. Hundley. The Border Vignettes by E. Buckman, T. Dalziel, P. Hundley, T.D. Scott, J. Wolf, Francis Walker, T.W. Wood, and J.B. Zwecker. Engraved by the Brothers Dalziel"--p. viii.
The illustrations are accompanied by blank guard sheets.
Half title.
T.p. printed in red and black, framed by ornamental border in gold.
Text printed within various ornamental borders.
Publisher's advertisements on two pages following the text.
"Miss Lillie, Christmas 1871, H.M.T?.A."--inscription in black ink on half title.
Description
[2], viii, 192, [2], [24] leaves of guard sheets : col. ill. (engravings) ; 26.5 x 21 cm
Provenance
From the library of Lincoln Kirstein.
Binding
Publisher's blue pictorial straight-grain morocco grain cloth, blocked in gold, black, and blind with brown endpapers, edges gilt, and bevelled edges; signed CC; "Bound by Burn & Co. Kirby St. E.C."-- binder's ticket inside lower board
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