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Title	Winged thoughts
Description	Gilt edges. Bevelled boards. Cream endpapers and pastedowns, decorated in gold with bronze and swirling wings. The bevels are blocked with a curling stem and leaf decoration. The lower cover has two fillets blocked on its borders. An arch is formed by massed feathers blocked up the sides, to meet at the centre head. From the base, more massed feathers form a 'peacock's fan tail' on the centre. On the upper cover, the same two fillets are blocked on the borders, and the same arch is formed at the centre head by massed feathers. On the tail, more massed feathers are blocked in blind and in relief. A feathered wing is bricked on the left and on the right of the upper cover. On the centre. the title: '\| Winged \| thoughts \|' is blocked in gothic, with the capitals 'W' and 'F' being in 'wing-like' ornamental style. On the spine, feathers are blocked from the head to the tail in blind and in relief. British Library copy of this volume, C.30.1.II, has printed on upper endpaper verso, at the tail: '\| Bound by Remnant Edmonds & Remnants. \|
Cover Designer	Jones, Owen, 1809-1874
Author	Bacon, M. A. (Mary Ann)
Publisher of Original	Longman & Co.
Place of Publication	London, England
Date Original	1851
Binder	Remnant, Edmonds & Remnants
Illustrator	Bateman, E. L.
Measurements	185 x 265 x 17 mm.
Call number	PEATTIE NO.8
Material	Brown Book cloth
Technique	Blind blocking Blocking Relief (Decorative arts) Gilding Beveling
Style/Period	19th century
Subject	Bookbinding--England--19th century--Specimens
Design element	Fillets (Bookbinding) Feathers Gothic scripts Stems Leaves Plant-derived motifs Arches Wings Peacocks
Coverage-Geographic	England
Type	Still Image
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=ocm04469851{001}
Digital Date	2005
CONTENTdm file name	178.cpd