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Title	Lalla Rookh : an oriental romance
Description	Gilt edges. Bevelled boards. Blue morocco vertical-grain cloth.Cream endpapers and pastedowns. Binder's ticket on lower pastedown: '\| BOUND \| BY \| LEIGHTON \| SON AND \| HODGE \|'. Both covers are blocked identically in gold and in blind. The recessed strapwork is blocked in blind as wide fillets, with small decoration blocked in relief inside them. The strapwork forms arabesques. They intermingle with the decorative panels which are blocked on gold. At the centre, the oriental-shaped gold lettering-piece contains the words: '\| LALLAH ROOKH \| BY \| THOMAS MOORE \|', blocked in relief. Similar elaborate arabesques and decorative patterns are blocked on the spine. The words: '\| LALLAH ROOKH \| [rule] \| MOORE \| [rule] \| ILLUSTRATED \|' are blocked in relief inside a gold lettering-piece.
Cover Designer	Warren, Albert Henry, 1830-1911
Author	Moore, Thomas, 1779-1852
Publisher of Original	Routledge, Warne & Routledge
Place of Publication	London, England; New York
Date Original	1860
Printer	Edmund Evans
Binder	Leighton, Son, and Hodge
Engraver	Evans, Edmund, 1826-1905
Illustrator	Thomas, George Houseman, 1824-1868 Pickersgill, Frederick Richard, 1820-1900 Foster, Myles Birket, 1825-1899 Corbould, Edward Henry, 1815-1905 R. A., illustrator
Measurements	170 x 230 x 40 mm.
Call number	PEATTIE NO.30
Material	Blue Morocco grain Book cloth
Technique	Gilding Blind blocking Gold blocking Relief (Decorative arts) Beveling
Style/Period	19th century
Subject	Bookbinding--England--19th century--Specimens
Design element	Fillets (Bookbinding) Arabesques Strapwork Lettering pieces Rules (Layout features) Panels (Ornament areas)
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=ocm12357700{001}
Digital Date	2005
CONTENTdm file name	198.cpd