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Title	Hyperion : a romance
Description	Text sewn on three tapes. Bevelled boards. Gilt edges. Yellow endpapers and pastedowns. Recto of lower pastedown has binder's ticket: '\| LEIGHTON \| SON & \| HODGE. \| SHOE LANE \| LONDON.\|' Blue ripple horizontal-grain cloth. Both covers blocked identically in gold, in blind and in relief. Two gold fillets are blocked on the borders. On each corner a triangle is formed by four gold fillets. Long leaves and lily-like flowers are blocked in gold within each triangle. The recessed central diamond reaches from head to tail. A single fillet is blocked in blind on its borders, with a wide fillet blocked inside this. The latter has a pattern of semi-circular stems and buds blocked in relief within it. The central vignette is blocked in gold. It shows eight lily-like flowers and four buds, surrounding a heart-shape. Signed 'JL' in gold as separate letters at the base of the vignette. The spine is fully blocked in gold. A single fillet is blocked on the perimeter. From the head downwards, the decoration is: lily-like flowers and buds arc blocked in gold within and around two 'balloon-shaped' panels at the head: heart-shaped gold lettering-piece; the words: ' \| LONGFELLOW'S HYPERION \| [rule] \| ILLUSTRATED \|' are blocked in gold within panel formed by a single gold fillet; an elaborate symmetric pattern of lily-like flowers, leaves and buds between, within and around fillets; signed 'JL' in gold as separate letters; two gold fillets; four lily-like leaves and two buds in gold; two gold fillets are blocked at the tail.
Cover Designer	Leighton, John, 1822-1912
Author	Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 1807-1882
Publisher of Original	David Bogue
Place of Publication	London, England
Date Original	1853
Printer	Henry Vizetelly (Firm)
Binder	Leighton, Son, and Hodge
Engraver	Henry Vizetelly (Firm)
Illustrator	Foster, Myles Birket, 1825-1899
Measurements	115 x 210 x 35 mm.
Call number	PEATTIE NO.10
Material	Blue Book cloth Grain patterns
Technique	Beveling Gold blocking Blind blocking Relief (Decorative arts) Gilding
Style/Period	19th century
Subject	Bookbinding--Specimens
Design element	Fillets (Bookbinding) Lozenges Triangle Monograms Plant-derived motifs Leaves Stems Buds Lilies Vignettes Floral patterns Heart (Shape) Semicircles Panels (Ornament areas)
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=ocm08634761{001}
Digital Date	2005
CONTENTdm file name	268.cpd