Memorial University DAI: The poems of Oliver Goldsmith

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Title	The poems of Oliver Goldsmith
Description	Gilt edges. Bevelled boards. Yellow endpapers and pastedowns. Blue morocco vertical-grain cloth. Both covers are blocked identically in gold. The three fillets on the borders are blocked in gold, with a repeating 'figure of eight' pattern blocked on the outside. The inner border is of shell-shaped medallions, blocked in gold and in blind. There are two fillets blocked on the inner border. The central rectangle has leaf and stem tracery blocked in gold and in blind on the corners. Around the sides of the inner rectangle, recessed and blocked in relief, is a repeating pattern of three-pointed leaves and stems. The central roundel is surrounded by a filigree with leaves and stems blocked in gold. On the back cover the words '\| WITH \| IILUSTRATIONS \| BY \| BIRKET \| FOSTER. \| PRINTED IN COLORS \| [rule] \| EDITED BY \| R. A. WILLMOTT. \|' On the front cover the words '\| THE \| POEMS \| OF \| OLIVER \| GOLDSMITH \|' are blocked in gold in elaborate lettering. The spine is fully blocked in gold and in blind. A mandorla in gold and in relief is blocked in the middle. Moorish designs are blocked at the head and at the tail, in gold and in relief. The words '\| THE \| POEMS \| OF \| OLIVER \| GOLDSMITH \| [rule] \| ILLUSTRATED \|' are blocked in gold, with seven gold fillets blocked underneath.
Cover Designer	Warren, Albert Henry, 1830-1911
Author	Goldsmith, Oliver, 1730?-1774 Willmott, Robert Aris, 1809-1863 (editor)
Publisher of Original	G. Routledge
Place of Publication	London, England; New York
Date Original	1859
Printer	Edmund Evans
Engraver	Evans, Edmund, 1826-1905
Illustrator	Foster, Myles Birket, 1825-1899 Humphreys, Henry Noel, 1810-1879.
Measurements	165 x 235 x 30 mm
Call number	PEATTIE NO.29
Material	Blue Morocco grain Book cloth
Technique	Gilding Beveling Gold blocking Blind blocking Relief (Decorative arts)
Style/Period	19th century
Subject	Bookbinding--England--19th century--Specimens
Design element	Fillets (Bookbinding) Shells Medallions (Decorative arts) Leaves Stems Rectangles Almond-shaped Eight (The number) Filigree Roundels (Circular panels) Moorish Plant-derived motifs Tracery
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=ocm03803740{001}
Digital Date	2005
CONTENTdm file name	233.cpd