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Keywords: Lalla Rookh - Upper cover and spine (c188b37).jpg Style Art nouveau; Caption Upper cover and spine; Colour Brown; Edge Gilt exhibition history Decorative Technique Tooled in gold; Cover Material Goatskin includes morocco turkey etc Signed MACLEHOSE GLASGOW Turn ins tooled in gold Smooth spine tooled and lettered in gold Edward Bayntun Coward states; Ink stamp of Bolton Public Libraries on the verso of the title along with acquisition number and foot of p 329 A very good copy of this significant Sixties book Published at five guineas it was described by a contemporary Times critic as the greatest illustrative achievement by any single hand The binding probably dates from the 1890s and must be one of MacLehose's more original and elaborate works James MacLehose 1811-1885 established himself as a bookseller in Glasgow in 1838 initially in partnership with Robert Nelson and on his own from 1841 In 1849 he moved to 61 St Vincent Street and in 1862 a bindery was added In 1881 he took on his two sons and they carried on the business after his death A portrait of the founder was printed in The British Bookmaker vol VI no 66 December 1892 pp 125-6 and the reported noted that the binding department has been made a very important branch of the establishment where work is executed in the very best style but no ordinary trade work is done All the books bound here are either the firm's own work or the work of private customers who appreciating its quality frequently send long distances to secure the execution of their orders meeting their own requirements Levant morocco and a special calf are the principal styles hand finished and single lettered and though many of the books are elaborately bound with special designs a large share are in the severely plain style which finds favour particularly in Scotland This book was amongst a number of bindings recently sold by Bolton Public Libraries Others were by Cedric Chivers and Sir Edward Sullivan and they appear to have been assembled at about the turn of the last century object history Text 1861; London; Unspecified object type Cc-zero place of creation Binding Scotland place of discovery Unspecified British Library image http //www bl uk/catalogues/bookbindings/LargeImage aspx RecordId 020-000009032 ImageId ImageId 44121 Copyright BL Lalla Rookh Uploaded with GWToolset Lalla Rookh - Upper cover and spine c188b37 http //www webarchive org uk/bldatasets/bindings/9707_3 jpg 19th-century bookbinding Bookbinding British Library Bookbindings
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