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Title	The minstrel
Uniform title	Beattie's Minstrel
Description	Gilt edges. Bevelled boards. Pale green morocco vertical-grain cloth. Yellow endpapers and pastedowns. Binder's ticket on lower pastedown: '\| BOUND BY \| BONE & SON, \| [rule] \| 76, FLEET STREET, \| LONDON.\|' Both covers are blocked with the same design in gold, in relief and in black. Between two fillets blocked in gold on the borders, there is a wide border showing a repeating pattern of stylized leaves and flowers, blocked in gold and in relief. The inner rectangle has a pattern of large flowers blocked in black. The central vignette is blocked in gold as a lettering-piece. The words: '\| Beattie's \| Minstrel \|' are blocked in relief inside it. The letters are in large gothic type, surrounded by a tracery of thin stems, which are blocked in relief. The words: `\| ILLUSTRATED \| BY BIRKET FOSTER \| ' are also blocked in relief, in sans serif capitals. Signed as a monogram 'AW' (Albert Warren) in relief at the base of the vignette. The spine is blocked in gold. The words: `\| BEATTIE'S MINSTREL \|' are blocked in gold along the spine within a cartouche formed by a single fillet, with gold leaf and flower decoration blocked at each end at the head and at the tail.
Cover Designer	Warren, Albert Henry, 1830-1911
Author	Beattie, James, 1735-1803
Publisher of Original	G. Routledge
Place of Publication	New York; London, England
Date Original	1858
Printer	Richard Clay
Binder	Bone & Son
Engraver	Dalziel Brothers
Illustrator	Foster, Myles Birket, 1825-1899
Measurements	150 x 207 x 15 mm.
Call number	PEATTIE NO.28
Material	Green Morocco grain Book cloth
Technique	Gilding Blocking Gold blocking Relief (Decorative arts) Beveling
Style/Period	19th century
Subject	Bookbinding--England--19th century--Specimens
Design element	Fillets (Bookbinding) Floral patterns Leaves Rectangles Vignettes Lettering pieces Gothic scripts Tracery Stems Monograms Cartouches, Ornamental (Decorative arts)
Coverage-Geographic	England
Type	Still Image
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=ocm03894106{001}
Digital Date	2005
CONTENTdm file name	313.cpd