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Title	Sermon on the Mount
Description	Gilt edges. Bevelled boards. Brown cloth with thirteen coloured and chromolithographed cut-out paper onlays. Beige endpapers and pastedowns. Binder's ticket on lower pastedown: '\| BOUND \| BY \| LEIGHTON \| SON AND \| HODGE \|'. Front cover is blocked in black and gold. Back cover is blocked in blind with the identical design. On the outermost borders of front cover are two continuous fillets blocked in black, the inner fillet being in a dogtooth pattern, the outer plain. Inside this there is a double fillet rectangular border blocked in gold, crossed by two additional horizontal double fillets of identical pattern to create outer rectangular panels and a central square panel. Within the double fillets there is a repeating pattern of dots within circles blocked in gold. At corner intersections of these double fillets and at the centre-point between the intersections there are squares blocked in black. At each of the four corners is a quatrefoil consisting of a border blocked in gold and black surrounding a central onlay of blue paper. The quatrefoils contain Greek characters as follows: top left and bottom left:'\|ΙΣ\|'; top right and bottom right: '\|ΧΣ\|'. The upper rectangular panel contains the words: '\| THE SERMON \|' blocked in gold; the lower rectangular panel: '\| ON THE MOUNT \|'. The square central panel contains an elaborate cross formy the terminations of whose arms, head and foot are invected. Its centerpiece is an eight-petalled flower shape of pale blue paper onlay, surrounded by two fillets of the same shape blocked in gold, between which is a repeating pattern of dots blocked in gold on a red background. At the centre of the blue flower motif is a disc bordered by interpenetrating dentellated circles the outer blocked in gold, the inner in black, both bordered by a circle in red. The inner disc contains a representation of the paschal lamb nimbused and carrying a staff ending in a cross at the head of which is a white pennon charged with a red cross. On the each of the petals of the blue flower appears a Greek character blocked in gold in the following sequence clockwise from the topmost petal: '\|Α\|Χ\|Ρ\|Σ\|Ω\|Ι\|Η\|Σ\|' The arms of the cross consist of an inner portion onlaid in red and an outer portion onlaid in blue. Along the length of each extends a heraldic red rose with leaves of green outlined in gold blocking and a stem blocked in gold. Between the arms of the cross and its upright extend diagonally towards each corner of the square panel four lilies each with four green onlay leaves outlined in gold blocking and with flower and stem blocked in gold. The base of each flower is surrounded by a nine-pointed eastern-style crown blocked in gold. At the foot of the spine are three plain horizontal fillets blocked in gold above which a fillet in a dentelle pattern is situated. Slightly higher there is another plain horizontal fillet. This fillet sequence is reproduced in reverse at the head of the spine. In between the words '¦THE¦SERMON¦ON¦THE¦MOUNT¦' are blocked in gold along the spine, tail to head.
Publisher of Original	Day and Son Limited
Place of Publication	London, England
Date Original	1861
Binder	Leighton, Son, and Hodge
Illustrator	Audsley, George Aschdown, 1838-1925 Audsley, W. (William), b. 1833 Tymms, W. R. (William Robert) Rolt, Charles
Measurements	31 cm.
Call number	PEATTIE NO.32
Material	Brown Book cloth Paper Blue Red
Technique	Gilding Beveling Blocking Gold blocking Blind blocking Applique
Style/Period	19th century
Subject	Bookbinding--England--19th century--Specimens
Design element	Fillets (Bookbinding) Rectangles Quatrefoils Crosses Floral patterns Dots (Art) Lambs Nimbus (Art) Lilies Leaves Crowns Greek letters Devices (Heraldry) Panels (Ornament areas) Square Circle Pennants Staff, Pastoral Roses Stems Onlays
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=ocm32598678{001}
Digital Date	2005
CONTENTdm file name	288.cpd