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Title	Odes and sonnets illustrated
Description	Bevelled boards. Gilt edges. Red morocco vertical-grain cloth. Light yellow endpapers and pastedowns. Binder's ticket on lower pastedown: '\| LEIGHTON \| SON & \| HODGE. \| SHOE LANE \| LONDON \|.' Both covers are blocked with an identical design in gold, in blind, and in relief. The border is blocked with two fillets in gold. Inside, this, a repeating pattern of diamonds, trefoils, quatrefoils and small dots, is blocked. Inside this, a fillet is blocked in gold, with small crosslike quatrefoils blocked in relief within it. Each of the inner corners has a circle blocked in gold, with flower and leaf patterns blocked in relief inside. At the head, tail and sides, panel gold lettering-pieces are blocked, with decoration of flowers and leaves blocked in relief. At the centre is a mandorla. Around its perimeter a fillet is blocked, with crosslike quatrefoils blocked inside in relief. The outer part of the mandorla is blocked in blind, with decorated circles blocked in relief. The central mandorla has the title: '\| ODES \| AND \| SONNETS \| ILLUSTRATED \|' blocked in relief inside four gold rectangular lettering-pieces. Small single flowers are blocked in gold around these lettering-pieces. Signed `\| IS \|' in gold as a monogram at the base of the innermost mandorla. The spine has decorated panels at the head and at the tail, blocked in gold. The title: ' \| ODES AND SONNETS \|' is blocked in relief along the spine, inside a cartouche, with fillets and floral decoration around its perimeter.
Cover Designer	Sliegh, John, fl. 1841-1879
Publisher of Original	George Routledge & Co.
Place of Publication	London, England
Date Original	1859
Printer	Dalziel Brothers Camden Press
Binder	Leighton, Son, and Hodge
Engraver	Dalziel Brothers
Illustrator	Foster, Myles Birket, 1825-1899 Sliegh, John, fl.1841-1879
Measurements	155 x 225 x 17 mm.
Call number	PEATTIE NO.23
Material	Red 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) Lozenges Trefoils Quatrefoils Dots (Art) Ovals Floral patterns Leaves Almond-shaped Cartouches, Ornamental (Decorative arts) Circle Lettering pieces Panels (Ornament areas) Monograms
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=ocm01355216{001}
Digital Date	2005
CONTENTdm file name	243.cpd