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Title	Poet's wit and humour
Description	Text sewn on three tapes. Gilt edges. Bevelled boards. Yellow endpapers and pastedowns. Binder's ticket on lower pastedown: '\| BOUND \| BY \| LEIGHTON \| SON AND \| HODGE.\|' Blue sand-grain cloth. Both covers blocked identically, in blind and relief on the lower and in gold and relief on the upper. On the upper cover, a hatch gold fillet is blocked on the borders. Horizontal hatch gold is blocked on the corners, with small plant patterns blocked within each corner in relief. Fillets of vertical hatch gold, with repeating circles blocked in relief within them form: 1. an inner border; 2. a cartouche on each side; 3. an inner central rectangle; 4. a circle at the centre head and at the centre tail; 5. a central diamond. Around the perimeter of the central rectangle, plant and flower patterns are blocked in relief, with flower heads blocked in gold. Arabesques of horizontal hatch gold are blocked on the middle of each cartouche, with small decoration in relief within each arabesque. On each corner of the central rectangle, a scroll-shaped hatch gold lettering-piece is blocked, with a one word of the title blocked within each in relief: '\| Poet's \| Wit \| and \| Humour \|'. The central vignette, blocked in gold, shows a winged putto, wearing a jester's hat, holding a lyre on its left. The jester's staff is on the ground in front. Signed 'RD' in gold as separate letters at the base of the central diamond. The spine is blocked in gold. A single hatch gold fillet and a single thin gold fillet are blocked on the perimeter. A single hatch gold fillet, with repeating circles blocked in relief within, forms, from the head downwards: 1. a circle, with flower decoration blocked in gold and relief within; 2. a panel with the title: '\| Poet's \| Wit and \| Humour \| ' blocked in gold within; 3. a cartouche with flower decoration blocked in relief within, surrounding an arabesque blocked in gold; 4. a panel with the words: ' \| Selected by \| Henry. Wills \| ' blocked in gold; 5. a circle, with decoration as for the circle at the head; 6. at the tail, a rectangle, with a single gold fillet forming another rectangle within.
Cover Designer	Dudley, Robert, fl. 1858-1893
Author	Wills, William Henry, 1810-1880
Publisher of Original	Ward, Lock and Tyler
Place of Publication	London, England
Date Original	1882
Engraver	Bennett, Charles H. (Charles Henry), 1829-1867 Thomas, George Houseman, 1824-1868
Measurements	170 x 232 x 40 mm.
Call number	PEATTIE NO.1
Material	Sand grain Book cloth Blue Yellow Paper
Technique	Beveling Blocking Gilding Gold blocking Blind blocking Relief (Decorative arts) Hatching
Style/Period	19th century
Subject	Bookbinding--England--19th century--Specimens
Design element	Floral patterns Cartouches, Ornamental (Decorative arts) Rectangles Lozenges Lettering pieces Circle Vignettes Putti Fools and jesters Fillets (Bookbinding) Plant-derived motifs Arabesques Scrolls (Decorative arts) Lyre
Coverage-Geographic	Europe--Great Britain--England
Resource Type	Binding
Source	Print original in the Roger and Marlene Peattie Collection
Type	Still Image
Format	Image/jpeg
Current repository	Memorial University of Newfoundland. Libraries
Collection	Decorative Nineteenth Century Trade Bindings
Bibliographic record	http://info.library.mun.ca/uhtbin/cgisirsi/x/0/0/5?user_id=REMOTEWEB&searchdata1=ocm45696185{001}
Digital Date	2005
CONTENTdm file name	148.cpd