The Most Delectable History of Reynard the Fox

Name/Title

The Most Delectable History of Reynard the Fox

Entry/Object ID

2017.11.3

Description

Bound for Beauty #83 xxxvii, 260, [4] p. : ill. Note: publisher's advertisements for Cranford Series to rear. Follows Felix Summerly's (Sir Henry Cole's) version for children, which was adapted from Caxton's. The introduction and notes attempt to give the adult reader a condensed account of the latest results of research in folk-lore and literary history.

Collection

Kathleen V. Roberts Collection of Decorated Publishers' Bindings

Lexicon

Search Terms

1890s

Dimensions

Height

7-1/4 in

Width

4-3/4 in

Book Details

Editor

Joseph Jacobs

Illustrator

W. Frank Calderon

Edition

First

Publisher

Macmillan & Company

Place Published

City

London

Country

England

Date Published

1895

Printer

R. & R. Clark

Place Printed

City

Edinburgh

Country

Scotland, United Kingdom

Binding

Binding Type

Publisher's Binding- Cranford Series

Binding Designer

A.A. Turbayne

Binding Notes

Bound in gilt-pictorial dark green cloth in a signed binding by A.A. Turbayne, showing a fox and birds in an elaborate art nouveau floral arrangement on the cover, with two distinctive designs on the spine. All edges gilt, coated endpapers.

Relationships

Related Person or Organization

Person or Organization

Felix Summerly

Exhibition

Bound for Beauty: Highlights from the Roberts Collection