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| Keywords: The book of home beauty - Upper cover (pp6965).jpg Style Publishers binding; Caption Upper cover; Colour Black; Edge Gilt exhibition history Decorative Technique Blocked in gold; Cover Material Leather unspecified 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 - 34XXXIV 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 object history Text 1852; New York; Unspecified object type Cc-zero place of creation Binding England place of discovery King Edmund M B Victorian decorated trade bindings 1830-1880 London The British Library 2003 no 114 British Library image http //www bl uk/catalogues/bookbindings/LargeImage aspx RecordId 020-000002086 ImageId ImageId 40648 Copyright BL The book of home beauty Uploaded with GWToolset The book of home beauty - Upper cover pp6965 http //www webarchive org uk/bldatasets/bindings/6253_4 jpg 19th-century bookbinding Bookbinding British Library Bookbindings | ||||
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