Cranford / Mrs. Gaskell

Name/Title

Cranford / Mrs. Gaskell

Entry/Object ID

2017.11.14

Description

Bound for Beauty #85 297 p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. First published in 1851 in serial form in the Dickens edited "Household Worlds." With a preface by Anne Thackeray Ritchie. Bookseller's ticket inside front cover: Mawson, Swan, & Morgan, Booksellers, Newcastle-upon-Tyne.

Collection

Kathleen V. Roberts Collection of Decorated Publishers' Bindings

Lexicon

Search Terms

1890s

Dimensions

Height

7-1/2 in

Book Details

Author

Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

Illustrator

Hugh Thomson

Publisher

Macmillan & Company

Place Published

City

London

Country

England

Date Published

1891

Printer

R. & R. Clark

Place Printed

City

Edinburgh

Country

Scotland, United Kingdom

Binding

Binding Type

Publisher's Binding- Cranford Series

Binding Designer

Hugh Thomson

Binding Notes

Bound in dark green cloth with binding design by Hugh Thomson featuring a large potted daisy, a tea service, and playing cards. Elaborate floral gilt spine decoration. Green coated endpapers. All edges gilt.

Notes

Published in the same year of publication- 1891 to title page. No date to copyright page. Owner's bookplate to ffep. Grace M. Pugh Owner's name written on half title page: J. E. Taylor, Humshaugh.

Exhibition

Bound for Beauty: Highlights from the Roberts Collection