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Keywords: Heber's Hymns Illustrated.-Sampson, Low, Son and Marston, Milton House, Ludgate Hill - Upper cover and spine (3435k5).jpg Style Floral Lettered cover eg intitals titles; Caption Upper cover and spine; Colour Blue; Edge Unspecified exhibition history Decorative Technique Blocked in blind Blocked in gold; Cover Material Coth sand grain Bevelled boards Gilt edges Light yellow endpapers and pastedowns Binder's ticket on lower pastedown /Bound by/ Bone Son / 76 Fleet St / London E C / The lower cover is blocked in blind with fillets blocked on the borders The central vignette is blocked in blind showing flower tracery Signed WHR in blind as a monogram at the base of the vignette The upper cover is blocked in gold There are two fillets blocked on the outer border with two more fillets and leaf tracery at the corners of the inner border The central mandorla is formed by four leaf repeating border blocked between two fillets The mandorla is surrounded by passion plant leaves and flowers Within the mandora inside a rectangle and an inner mandorle the words /Heber's/ Hymns/ Illustrated/ are blocked in gold in hatched gold gothic capitals Signed W at the base of the mandorla The spine is fully blocked in gold Two fillets and a border are blocked around the perimeter There are square gold lettering-pieces blocked at the head and at the tail The words London S Low Co are blocked in relief within a square gold lettering-piece at the base The title words /Heber's Hymns/ are blocked in hatched gold gothic capitals along the spine within a cartouche which has diamond straps at each end There is decoration blocked in relief within gold panels at head and at tail of the cartouche Text copyright Edmund M B King and available under a CC0 license object history Text 1867; London; Unspecified object type Cc-zero place of creation Binding England place of discovery Ball Douglas Victorian publishers' bindings / London Library Association c1985 p 157 Pantazzi Sybille Four Designers of English Publishers' Bindings 1850-1880 and Their Signatures Off-print from Bibliographical Society of America vol 55 Pantazzi 4D no XII King Edmund M B Victorian decorated trade bindings 1830-1880 a descriptive bibliography / London British Library ;New Castle Del Oak Knoll Press 2003 British Library image http //www bl uk/catalogues/bookbindings/LargeImage aspx RecordId 020-000015566 ImageId ImageId 55134 Copyright BL Heber's Hymns Illustrated Sampson Low Son and Marston Milton House Ludgate Hill Uploaded with GWToolset Heber's Hymns Illustrated Sampson Low Son and Marston Milton House Ludgate Hill - Upper cover and spine 3435k5 http //www webarchive org uk/bldatasets/bindings/2Aa jpg 19th-century bookbinding Bookbinding British Library Bookbindings
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