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Title	The prince's progress and other poems
Description	Dark green ungrained cloth. Light brown endpapers and pastedowns. Binder's ticket on lower pastedown: '\| BOUND BY \| BURN \| 37 & 38 \| KIRBY ST. \|' Both covers are blocked identically in gold, with the horizontal fillets on each cover being linked by fillets on the spine. Near the fore-edge of each cover, a single vertical gold fillet is blocked, with split ends and a sprial at the head and tail. Horizontal gold fillets blocked mid cover form squares. Groups of three circles are blocked in gold on the inner corners of these squares. Above and below the squares, a single horizontal gold fillet is blocked, with split ends and a spiral at each extremity. The spine is blocked in gold. From the head downwards, the decoration is: a gold fillet; the words: `\| CHRISTINA \| ROSSETTI \|'; gold fillet; two groups of three circles, blocked in gold; the title: ` \| THE \| PRINCE'S \| PROGRESS \| and \| other \| poems. \|' blocked in gold; two groups of three circles blocked in gold; a gold fillet; the date: ` \| 1866 \| ' in gold; gold fillet.
Cover Designer	Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, 1828-1882
Author	Rossetti, Christina Georgina, 1830-1894
Publisher of Original	Macmillan and Co.
Place of Publication	London, England
Date Original	1866
Printer	R. Clay, Son, and Taylor
Binder	Burn
Measurements	110 x 178 x 20 mm.
Call number	PEATTIE NO.21
Material	Green Book cloth
Technique	Gold blocking
Style/Period	19th century
Subject	Bookbinding--England--19th century--Specimens
Design element	Fillets (Bookbinding) Circle Square Spirals
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=ocm04254761{001}
Digital Date	2005
CONTENTdm file name	208.cpd