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Author/Creator:Pigot, Richard.
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Title:The life of man : symbolised by the months of the year in a series of illustrations by John Leighton : ... and pourtrayed in their seasons and phases, with passages selected from ancient and modern authors / by Richard Pigot.
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Published/Created:London : Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, 1866.
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Physical Description:xii, 240 p., [24] leaves of plates : ill. ; 29 cm.
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Local Notes:BAC: British Art Center copy 1 bound in publisher's original green cloth with red paper mandorla onlay. Signed JL. Blocked in gold and black; identical design on front and back. Spine blocked in gold and back; bevelled boards. Label: Edmonds and Remnants.
Copy 2 is bound in contemporary gilt-tooled brown morocco, with gilt edges. Bookplate: David Arthur Jones.
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Notes:Wood engravings by David Wallace Williamson, W.T. Green, George Dalziel, Henry Leighton, August Gaber, Hugo Bürkner, Horace Harrall, and Edward Dalziel.
"The smaller designs and devices in the volume are engraved by Leighton, Williamson, Green, Dalziel, Cooper, Woods, Pearson, Jewitt, and Swain."--P. XII.
Printed by Bradbury, Evans, & Co.
Printed in red, green, yellow, blue and black.
Includes index of authors.
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References:McLean, R. Victorian publisher's book-bindings in cloth and leather, p. 90
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Subjects:Seasons in literature.
English literature.
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Subjects (Local Yale):Chron.--1866.
Leighton, John, 1822-1912, binding designer
Ross, David and Judith--Provenance.
Jones, David Arthur--Bookplate.
Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer--Publisher.
Bradbury, Evans,--Printer
Edmonds & Remnants--Bookbinder.
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Genre/Form:Wood engravings--1866
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Also listed under:Bürkner, Hugo, engraver.
Cooper, Alfred W., engraver.
Dalziel, Edward, 1817-1905, engraver.
Dalziel, George, 1815-1902, engraver.
Gaber, August, 1823-1894, engraver.
Green, W. T., active 1837-1872, engraver.
Harral, Horace, engraver.
Jewitt, Thomas Orlando Sheldon, 1799-1869, engraver.
Leighton, Henry, fl. 1851-1872, engraver.
Leighton, John, 1822-1912, ill.
Pearson, George, active approximately 1860, engraver.
Williamson, David Wallace, fl. 1872-1898, engraver.
Woods, Henry, 1846-1921, engraver.
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