Beauty and the beast : an old tale new-told, with pictures / by E.V.B. [i.e. Eleanor Vere Boyle]

Eleanor Vere Boyle

RA Collection: Book

Record number

14/5337

Author

Imprint

London: Sampson Low, Marston, Low, and Searle, Crown Buildings, 188, Fleet Street, [1875?]

Physical Description

[4], 57 pages, [10] leaves of plates : illustrations (some colour) ; 27 cm.

General Note

The printer is named on the verso of the title page: `London: R. Clay, Sons, and Taylor, Printers, Bread Street Hill’.
The front pastedown carries the armorial bookplate of Violet Gurney. The front free endpaper carries the pictorial engraved bookplate of Bryan Hall, with the motto `Spes Mea In Deo ‘.
Illustrated with 10 chromolithographic plates (including frontispiece) by the Leighton Brothers. Each plate has a protective interleaf with descriptive letterpress. Text wood-engravings.
The book carries no publication date. Imprint date from British Museum and British Library catalogues.

Binding Note

Green cloth pictorial boards, titled on upper cover and spine.

Subject

Illustrated books
Pictorial works - Lithography - Chromolithography - Colour printing - Great Britain - 19th century
Colour lithography

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