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Title	A welcome to Her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales from the Poet Laureate
Uniform title	Welcome to Alexandra
Description	Gilt edges. Bevelled boards. Red pebble-grain cloth. Glazed white endpapers and pastedowns which are patterned with rib diagonal grain and moire. Both covers are blocked identically in gold and in relief. A single gold fillet is blocked in gold on the head, the tail and the fore-edge. A pattern of straps is blocked in gold on the sides, the head and the tail, with leaf decoration blocked on each corner. Above and below the centre is a white paper rectangular onlay. Each onlay has double fillets blocked in gold on its borders. The words: '\| A WELCOME \| TO ALEXANDRA \|' are blocked in gold on each onlay. The centre of each cover has a square paper onlay, blocked in gold with an elaborate strapwork pattern, which is shown in relief by the blocking in gold. Gold fillets are blocked on the borders of the square and straps (ending in points) are blocked on each corner. The spine has the title: '\| A WELCOME TO ALEXANDRA \|' blocked in gold along its length, tail to head.
Cover Designer	Jones, Owen, 1809-1874
Author	Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron, 1809-1892
Publisher of Original	Day and Son, Lithographers to the Queen
Place of Publication	London, England
Date Original	1863
Measurements	215 x 297 x 15 mm.
Call number	PEATTIE NO.31
Material	Red Pebble grain Book cloth White Paper
Technique	Gilding Beveling Blind blocking Gold blocking Relief (Decorative arts) Applique
Style/Period	19th century
Subject	Bookbinding--England--19th century--Specimens
Design element	Fillets (Bookbinding) Leaves Square Strapwork Rectangles 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=ocm05388806{001}
Digital Date	2005
CONTENTdm file name	303.cpd