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The Enchanted Toasting-Fork. A fairy Tale
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The Enchanted Toasting-Fork. A fairy Tale
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Style: Pictorial|Publishers binding; Caption: Upper cover; Colour: Purple; Edge: Unspecified
Date Binding: 19c
Medium Decorative Technique: Blocked in gold|Blocked in blind; Cover Material: Cloth, pansy grain
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Place of creation Binding: England
Object history Text: 1869; London; Unspecified
Notes Measures 148x190x17mm. Purple pansy-grain cloth. The upper cover is blocked in gold. Three fillets are blocked in blind on the borders of the lower cover, two thin and one thick. The same three fillets are blocked in gold on the borders of the upper cover. On the centre, a pennant-shaped gold lettering-piece has a toasting fork driven through the folds of the pennant. In the pennant, the words: "/ A Fairy Tale/" are blocked in relief. The title: "/ The Enchanted/ Toasting/ Fork./" is blocked above and below the pennant. The spine is blocked in gold. At the head and at the tail, a fillet and linked semi-circles are blocked in gold. The title: "/ The/ Enchanted/ Toasting/ Fork./" is blocked in gold, in fanciful letters. Near the tail: "/ Tinsley Brothers/" is blocked in gold. Unsigned.
References See E M B King Victorian Trade Bindings, 1830-1880: A Descriptive Bibliography, London, 2002. n708
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