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Title	Poems
Description	Gilt edges. Bevelled boards. Green morocco vertical-grain cloth. Pale yellow endpapers. Recto of lower endpaper has binder's ticket: '\| BOUND BY \| EDMONDS & REMNANTS \| LONDON \|.' Both covers identically blocked in gold and in relief. Three gold fillets are blocked on the borders. Inside this are: 1. a border of three fillets, with repeating dots blocked in gold, between the first and second fillets; 2. a border fillet blocked in blind on the sides and on the tail; 3. a border of five fillets, with repeating dots blocked in gold between the second and the third fillets. Straps are formed on each corner by these multiple fillets and dots. A raised pattern of hatch ivy leaves and stems surrounds the centre. The centre circle is formed by multiple gold fillets, with more elaborate straps blocked above and below it on the centre head and on the centre tail. The centre circle has fillets blocked in gold on its borders, and inside, there are three hatch gold lettering-pieces containing lily-like flowers. Also within the circle, a trefoil is formed by three fillets blocked in gold, the middle of which has repeating dots blocked in relief. The words '\| POEMS \| BY \| ELIZA COOK \|' are blocked in relief within three gold lettering-pieces with single gold fillets blocked on their borders. Hatch gold decoration surrounds these lettering-pieces. Signed 'JL' in gold as separate letters underneath the title. The spine is blocked in gold. Two gold fillets are blocked on the perimeter. Three groups of elaborate straps are blocked in gold on the head, the middle and near the tail. Each is formed by two gold fillets with repeating gold dots blocked between them. The words \| POEMS BY \| ELIZA \| COOK \|' are blocked in relief within four rectangular gold lettering-pieces, all being blocked within hatch horizontal gold panel. The word: '\| ILLUSTRATED \|' is blocked in relief within a rectangular gold lettering-piece, which has a single fillet blocked in relief on its borders - both blocked within gold hatch decoration. At the tail, the words: \| ROUTLEDGE & CO. \|' are blocked in relief within a rectangular gold lettering-piece, which has a single fillet blocked in relief on its borders - both blocked within a rectangle formed by a single gold fillet.
Cover Designer	Leighton, John, 1822-1912
Author	Cook, Eliza, 1818-1889
Publisher of Original	Routledge, Warne & Routledge
Place of Publication	London, England
Date Original	1861
Printer	Richard Clay
Binder	Edmonds & Remnants
Engraver	Dalziel Brothers
Illustrator	Gilbert, John, Sir, 1817-1897 Wolf, Joseph, 1820-1899 Watson, John Dawson, 1832-1892 Weir, Harrison, 1824-1906
Measurements	165 x 230 x 40 mm.
Call number	PEATTIE NO.14
Material	Green Morocco grain Book cloth
Technique	Gilding Beveling Gold blocking Relief (Decorative arts) Blind blocking Hatching
Style/Period	19th century
Subject	Bookbinding--England--19th century--Specimens
Design element	Fillets (Bookbinding) Strapwork Plant-derived motifs Leaves Stems Circle Rectangles Lilies Lettering pieces Monograms Dots (Art) Ivy Trefoils
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=ocm63107654{001}
Digital Date	2005
CONTENTdm file name	193.cpd