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Title	Parables from nature
Description	Bevelled boards. Gilt edges. Red sand-grain cloth. Black endpapers and pastedowns. Both covers blocked identically in gold in relief and in blind. On the outermost borders there is a repeating pattern of a flower, stem and leaf motif alternating with a shallow bowl motif. Inside this a single fillet is blocked in gold. The central rectangle is surrounded by two concentric rectangular gold fillets in between which is a continuous foliated band consisting of vine leaves and tendrils and incorporating zoological, botanical and artifactual motifs, the last category including stylized vases, pedestals, canopies and harps, the whole combining a mixture of blocking and hatching in gold. The central rectangle is enclosed by two fillets blocked in gold. Within it is a diagonal chequer-board pattern around an oval centre-piece enclosed by two oval fillets, between which is a repeating pattern of dots and invected semi-circles, all blocked in gold. The squares of the chequer-board each contain a fruit-like motif hatched in gold. The central vignette is blocked in gold as a lettering-piece within an arabesque that terminates at the sides in a flower head and at head and base in scrollwork framed in a solid outer oval, all blocked in gold. The part of the outer oval that immediately encloses the central vignette is hatched in gold. Within the arabesque is written in letters embellished with occasional extravagant leaflike serifs are the words: '\| PARABLES \| from Nature \| MRS A. GATTY \|'. This inscription is embellished at both the top and bottom each with a fleuron. The spine borders are blocked in gold with a thin rectangular fillet. Inside the fillet a thicker rectangular fillet encloses foliated tracery similar to that on the cover blocked in gold. A third of the way down the tracery broadens into a solid band on which the words: '\| PARABLES \| FROM \| NATURE \|' are blocked in relief. Two thirds of the way down is a second solid band on which the words: '\| BY \| MRS GATTY \|' are blocked in relief. The centrepiece of the ornament at the tail, in between two tendrils that terminate in grotesque animal faces, bears the monogram 'WHR'.
Cover Designer	Rogers, W. Harry (William Harry), 1825-1873
Author	Gatty, Alfred, Mrs., 1809-1873
Publisher of Original	Bell and Daldy
Place of Publication	London, England
Date Original	1865
Printer	Chiswick Press Whittingham and Wilkins
Engraver	Woods, Henry, 1846-1921 Harral, Horace
Illustrator	Cope, Charles West, 1811-1890 Calderon, P. H. (Philip Hermogenes), 1833-1898 Millais, W. Hunt, William Holman, 1827-1910 Thomas, George Houseman, 1824-1868 Warren, Edmund, illustrator Frølich, Lorenz, 1820-1908 Scott, William Bell, 1811-1890 Jones, E.B., illustrator Weir, Harrison, 1824-1906 Tenniel, John, Sir, 1820-1914 Wolf, Joseph, 1820-1899 Burton, William Paton, 1828-1883 Edwards, Mary Ellen, 1839-ca. 1910 Speckter, Otto, 1807- 1871 Keene, Charles, 1823-1891
Measurements	160 x 227 x 50 mm.
Call number	PEATTIE NO.20
Material	Red Sand grain Book cloth
Technique	Gilding Beveling Gold blocking Relief (Decorative arts) Blind blocking Hatching
Style/Period	19th century
Subject	Bookbinding--England--19th century--Specimens
Design element	Fillets (Bookbinding) Floral patterns Leaves Stems Rectangles Tendrils Plant-derived motifs Vases Figure-and animal-derived motifs Harp Semicircles Vignettes Arabesques Ovals Monograms Tracery Bowls (Tableware) Pedestals Canopies, Architectural Fruit Scrollwork Fleurons (Motifs) Dots (Art) Square
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=a1767255{001}
Digital Date	2005
CONTENTdm file name	253.cpd