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| Keywords: A record of the Black Prince - Upper cover (C30g1).jpg Style Publishers binding; Caption Upper cover; Colour Black; Edge Unspecified exhibition history Decorative Technique Moulded; Cover Material Papier Mache Cover design by Henry Noel Humphreys taken from the tomb of the Black Prince Material used for upper and lower covers sometimes called carton pierre The design is described by Humphreys in paragraph 8 of the descriptive index at the end 8 The carved cover is taken from one of the compartments of the Prince's tomb at Canterbury slightly altered for its present purpose by the addition of the label to receive the title and the extra enrichment of the mouldings; in which however the decorative feeling of the period has been carefully preserved In the publisher's titles at the end of BL C 30 g 7 - The Book of Ruth this work is stated to be In a carved and pierced binding price 21s Gilt edges The turn-ins are blocked in gold Black pierced papier mache with a red paper background The design is identical for both covers Two decorated raised borders are separated by a border of bosses The central rectangle is filled with symmetrical medieval decorative motifs - there are small pointed arches on each corner together with bosses and leaves Semi-circles are on the centre head the centre tail and the sides The coat of arms of the Black Prince is on the centre The title words are within a ribbon which is above and on each side of the coat Text copyright Edmund M B King and available under a CC0 license object history Text 1849; London; Unspecified object type Cc-zero place of creation Binding England place of discovery See E M B King Victorian Trade Bindings n 60 Paul Smith 'In the Gothic Mould' in Bookbinder The Journal of the Society of Bookbinders vol 24 2010 pp5-15 Ball Douglas A catalogue of the Appleton Collection of Victorian colour printing and signed bindings 1979 College of Librarianship Aberystwyth Wales49f Ball Douglas Victorian publishers' bindings / London Library Association c1985 p 149 Robin de Beaumont Nineteenth century Publisher ™ bindings 1820-1900; a brief survey from my shelves In The Private Library Fourth series Vol 9 1 Spring 1996 p 18 21 Howard Leathlean Henry Noel Humphreys and the Getting Up of books in the mid nineteenth century In the Book Collelctor Vol 38 no 2 Summer 1989 pp 182-209 p 202 Ruari McLean Victorian publishers ™ bookbindings in paper London 1983 p 54 Ruari McLean Victorian book design and colour printing London 1972 p 104-106 one thousand copies were printed 113 Morris Ellen K and Edward S Levin The Art of Publisher's Book-Bindings 1815-1915 Los Angeles 2000 p 75 no 160 British Library image http //www bl uk/catalogues/bookbindings/LargeImage aspx RecordId 020-000002846 ImageId ImageId 41028 Copyright BL A record of the Black Prince Uploaded with GWToolset A record of the Black Prince - Upper cover C30g1 http //www webarchive org uk/bldatasets/bindings/8239_3 jpg 19th-century bookbinding Bookbinding British Library Bookbindings | ||||
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