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| Common wayside flowers. Illustrated by Birket Foster.
Routledge, Warne and Routledge, Farringdon Street; and 56, Walker Street, New York. |
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Miller, Thomas |
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| Title |
Common wayside flowers. Illustrated by Birket Foster. Routledge, Warne and Routledge, Farringdon Street; and 56, Walker Street, New York. |
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| Description |
Style: Publishers binding|Pictorial; Caption: Upper cover; Colour: Brown; Edge: Gilt |
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| Date | Binding: 19c | |||
| Medium | Decorative Technique: Blocked in gold|Blocked in relief|Onlaid; Cover Material: Cloth, morocco horizontal grain|Paper, printed | |||
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Shelfmark: c44d6 |
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| Place of creation | Binding: England | |||
| Object history | Text: 1860; London; Unspecified | |||
| Notes | Designed by Albert Warren. Bevelled boards. Brown morocco horizontal-grain cloth. Both covers identically blocked in gold. The paper onlays are also identical for both covers. Three fillets are blocked on the borders, the two inner being shaped as branches, with ivy leaves being blocked between them. The veins of the leaves are outlined in relief. The fillets intersect at the corners to form small squares. A single fillet is blocked on the borders of each of the four inner corner panels. A printed paper onlay showing 'wayside flowers' is laid onto each inner corner. Each onlay been varnished. The centre panel is diamond-shaped, with 'branch-like' fillets and ivy leaves on its borders. The title: "/ Common/ Wayside/ Flowers/" and "/ Birket Foster/" are blocked in rustic-style letters. Between the two, the words: "/ Illustrations by/" are blocked in gold. Signed "AW" in gold as separate letters on the centre tail of each cover. The spine is blocked in gold. A single branch-shaped fillet is blocked on the perimeter. From the head downwards, the decoration is: at the head, ivy leaves are blocked in a panel, formed by a single "branch-like" fillet; a gold lettering-piece, with ivy leaves blocked in relief inside it, and a branch-shaped single fillet on its borders - is blocked above and below the title words; the title words: "/ Common/ wayside/ flowers/" are blocked in relief on a blue paper onlay, within a gold lettering piece; in the middle of the spine, within another gold lettering-piece, the words: "/ with/ illustrations/ by/ Birket Foster/" are blocked in relief on a red paper onlay; foxgloves are blocked in gold; the words: "/ Routledge & Co/" are blocked in relief on a blue paper onlay, inside a gold lettering-piece; at the tail, ivy leaves are blocked within a rectangle formed by a single branch-like gold fillet. Text copyright Edmund M B King and available under a CC0 license. | |||
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Ball, Douglas. Victorian publishers' bindings / (London : Library Association, c1985.) p.164. McLean, R. Victorian Publishers' Book-bindings in Cloth and Leather (1973) p.53."Perhaps the most sensational of all the cut-out paper and gold blocking bindings." Morris, Ellen K., and Edward S. Levin. The Art of Publisher's Book-Bindings, 1815-1915. ( Los Angeles, 2000) p.66, no.133. Pantazzi, Sybille. Four Designers of English Publishers' Bindings, 1850-1880 and Their Signatures. [Off-print from Bibliographical Society of America vol.55 4D p.94. |
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