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Title	A Round of days described in original poems.
Description	The text is printed only on the rectos.Gilt edges. Bevelled boards. Green sand-grain cloth. Both covers identically blocked in gold and in relief. A thin gold fillet is blocked on the outer borders. Inside, there is a paper onlay on the inner borders. It is painted in blue and in red, and blocked with a pattern of four-pointed ovals and diamonds. On the middle of each side, there are larger ovals; on each corner, there is a trefoil embellished with three additional curved segments between its tips. All these have single gold fillets on their borders, and leaf and flower patterns blocked in gold inside. Between them, double fillets in red relief outline each pattern in blue, and groups of three clover leaves and stems are blocked in red relief. The centre of the cover has a thin mandorla, which is formed by a paper onlay painted blue and red, and blocked in gold. Groups of leaves and buds are blocked in gold on the blue at the head, the tail and the sides, within straps blocked in gold. The words: ` \| A \| ROUND \| OF \|' are blocked in gold above the central medallion; the word: ` DAYS ' is blocked in red relief within the central hatched gold medallion; the word: ' \| ILLUSTRATED \| ' is blocked in gold in a semi-circle within the blue outer rim of the central medallion. Beneath the medallion, the words: `\| Dalziel's \| Fine Art \| Gift \| Book \| ' are blocked in red relief, within a horizontal hatch gold lettering piece. Signed `JL' in gold as separate letters at the base of the gold lettering-piece. The spine is blocked in gold. A single gold fillet is blocked on the perimeter. From the head downwards, the decoration is: a medallion, with a horizontal hatch gold fleur-de-lys blocked within it; an 'arrow head' shape, with small leaf and stem decoration blocked within; the words: ` \| A \| ROUND \| OF DAYS \| ILLUSTRATED \|' blocked in gold within a panel formed by a single gold fillet; more leaf and stem decoration is blocked within two decorative panels; a medallion - the same as blocked at the head; a gold fillet; the word: '\| ROUTLEDGE \|' is blocked in gold, within a rectangle formed by a single fillet; at the tail, a gold fillet.
Cover Designer	Leighton, John, 1822-1912
Publisher of Original	George Routledge and Sons
Place of Publication	London, England
Date Original	1866
Printer	Camden Press
Engraver	Dalziel Brothers
Measurements	200 x 262 x 35 mm.
Call number	PEATTIE NO.15
Material	Sand grain Book cloth Green Paper Blue Red
Technique	Beveling Gold blocking Blocking Relief (Decorative arts) Applique Hatching
Style/Period	19th century
Subject	Bookbinding--England--19th century--Specimens
Design element	Fillets (Bookbinding) Ovals Rectangles Semicircles Strapwork Plant-derived motifs Floral patterns Arrowheads Monograms Fleur-de-lys Lettering pieces Floral patterns Fleur-de-lys Circle Almond-shaped Medallions (Decorative arts) Onlays Buds Leaves Stems Lozenges Trefoils
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=ocm00908954{001}
Digital Date	2005
CONTENTdm file name	283.cpd