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[edit]| The book of home beauty | ||||
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Kirkland, Caroline Matilda |
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The book of home beauty |
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| Description |
Style: Publishers binding; Caption: Upper cover; Colour: Black; Edge: Gilt |
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| Date | Binding: 19c | |||
| Medium | Decorative Technique: Blocked in gold; Cover Material: Leather (unspecified) | |||
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Shelfmark: pp6965 |
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| Place of creation | Binding: England | |||
| Object history | Text: 1852; New York; Unspecified | |||
| Notes | Designed by John Leighton. New York: G.P. Putnam, 155, Broadway, 1852. [New York], John F. Trow, printer, 49 Ann-street. 246x315x30mm. 6, 145p. , 13 plates.Gilt edges. Bevelled boards. The endpapers and pastedowns are decorated with red shells, against a gold background. Black pebble-grain leather. The turn-ins are blocked in gold with a repeating pattern of stems, buds and leaves. Both covers are blocked identically in gold. On the borders, six fillets are blocked. In the middle of these fillets, a repeating leaf and stem pattern is blocked. There are two fillets blocked on the inner border with small strap work on the corners. The design of the central rectangle is based upon interlacing arched stems, leaves and fuchsias. The central arch formed by the stems and the leaves is stylistically close to plate VI - 34[XXXIV] in "Suggestions in Design", 1853, entitled "Fanciful superficial pattern". Six "portrait frames" hang from the branches, in three pairs. The stems come out from an artist's palette blocked near the base. There are ten fuchsias in the design, whose five-stamened flowers are a feature. The words: "/ The/ Book/ of/ Home/ Beauty/" are blocked in gothic letters on the centre. Above the title, a shield is blocked, which contains United States stars and stripes. Signed "JL" in gold as separate letters at the base of the palette. The spine is divided into six panels by bands. Each panel has the same decoration of a centre-piece and four spiral-shapes blocked in gold in small tools, within a panel formed by two fillets. The title: "/ The/ Book/ of/ Home /Beauty/" is blocked on the second panel. Text copyright Edmund M B King and available under a CC0 license. | |||
| References | King, Edmund M.B. Victorian decorated trade bindings 1830-1880. London: The British Library, 2003, no. 114. | |||
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