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Title	The course of time : a poem
Description	Gilt edges. Full brown morocco grain. Marbled endpapers and pastedowns. Front cover blocked in black and back cover blocked identically in reverse. A thin double fillet is blocked on the border. Within the rectangle it forms is a smaller double fillet forming an inner border. The horizontal and vertical sides of the inner border run on into the outer border to form a central rectangle with two narrower oblong vertical panels at either side and oblong panels at the head and foot which intersect at the corners to form small squares. The central panel is blank except for a fillet which continuously follows the inside of the panel border in a pattern alternately urdy and nebuly. Within the nebulas is a repeated pattern of a blocked oval and within the 'pointed battlements' is a repeated pattern of three blocked dots. The border fillet of the central panel extends in all four directions into each of the adjoining side, upper and lower panels to create a narrower panel, each of which is decorated by a repeating pattern of blocked circles. From the upper and lower narrower panel, one at each end, two more double vertical fillets extend to the cover edge. The right hand narrower panel also has two double fillets extending to the cover edge. The left-hand narrower panel has four equidistant imitation spine-cover clasps which extend to the spine. In each of the four corner squares is a floral arabesque blocked in black. The spine is blocked in black and gold. At the head and tail thin double horizontal fillets are blocked in black. Above the tail fillets a second double fillet creates a panel in which the word '\| ILLUSTRATED \|' is blocked in gold. The spine is otherwise divided into five panels each enclosed at the top and bottom by thin double and triple fillets between which is blocked in black a pattern of alternating trefoils and flower crowns. The panels are further separated from each other by a single thin fillet blocked in black. These panels enclose, descending from the head: 1) a swelled rule embellished with diamond and trefoil shapes; 2) the words '\| THE \| COURSE \| OF TIME \|' blocked in gold; 3) the word '\| POLLOK \|' blocked in gold; 4) another swelled rule; 5) another swelled rule.
Author	Pollok, Robert, 1798-1827
Publisher of Original	William Blackwood and Sons
Place of Publication	Edinburgh, Scotland; London, England
Date Original	1857
Binder	Hayday, James, 1796-1872
Engraver	Dalziel Brothers Evans, Edmund, 1826-1905 Green, John, engraver Woods, Henry, 1846-1921
Illustrator	Foster, Myles Birket, 1825-1899 Tenniel, John, Sir, 1820-1914 Clayton, John R.
Measurements	158 x 220 x 33 mm.
Call number	PEATTIE NO.25
Material	Brown Black Morocco leather
Technique	Gilding Blocking Gold blocking
Style/Period	19th century
Subject	Bookbinding--Scotland--19th Century--Specimens
Design element	Fillets (Bookbinding) Rectangles Square Dots (Art) Ovals Arabesques Floral patterns Clasps Trefoils Lozenges Crowns Wave pattern Devices (Heraldry) Panels (Ornament areas) Circle
Coverage-Geographic	Europe--Great Britain--Scotland
Resource Type	Binding
Source	Print original in the Roger and Marlene Peattie Collection
Type	Still Image
Format	Imgae/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=ocm01956763{001}
Digital Date	2005
CONTENTdm file name	203.cpd