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001 $ 06/2715
003 $ UK-LoRAA
005 $ 20220213204131.3
041 0 # $a eng
044 # # $a uk
100 1 # $a Foster, Myles Birket
245 1 0 $a Sabbath bells : chimed by the poets / $c illustrated by Birkett Foster
260 # # $a London $b Bell and Daldy $c 1856
300 # # $a [6], 5-112 p. : $b ill. ; $c 24 cm.
500 # # $a "Selected by the Editor of 'The Poetry of the year', 'The Poets of the woods', etc."--Page [8].
500 # # $a Monogram: "J.C." [i.e. Joseph Cundall] on verso of title page.
500 # # $a Illustrations are colour wood-engravings, engraved and printed by Edmund Evans.
500 # # $a Further information about the binding of this book can be found on the Memorial University of Newfoundland Digital Archives Initiative: Decorative Nineteenth Century Trade Bindings website:

See also: Decorative 19th century trade bindings. Queen Elizabeth II Library website.
520 2 # $a "An extremely pretty and successful anthology devised by Joseph Cundall, with text designed and printed by Charles Whittingham at the Chiswick Press, and Birket Foster's illustrations, presumably overprinted, on the Chiswick Press sheets, by Edmund Evans, in four or five colours - his first full-colour reproductive engraving. Later editions of Sabbath Bells, in 1861, 1862, and after, were reset and entirely printed by Edmund Evans"--McLean, Ruari, Victorian book design, p. 179.
561 # # $a Publisher's binding of brown morocco vertical-grain cloth stamped in blind and gold, signed with the initials WHR [i.e. William Harry Rogers] in gold as a monogram at the base of the decoration; bevelled boards; gilt edges.
653 # # $a Illustrated books
653 # # $a English poetry
653 # # $a Religious poetry, English
653 # # $a Colour wood-engravings
700 1 # $a Foster, Myles Birket $e draughtsman
700 1 # $a Evans, Edmund $e wood-engraver
700 1 # $a Cundall, Joseph $e contributor
700 1 # $a Rogers, William Harry $e book designer
710 2 # $a Bell and Daldy $e publisher
710 2 # $a Chiswick Press (London) $e printer
710 2 # $a Bone & Son $e binder