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    • Title:Pictorial casket : specimen.
    • Published/Created:[Manchester : Bradshaw & Blacklock], [1852].
    • Physical Description:[3]-10 p., [11] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 30 cm.
    • Yale Holdings

      • Location:BRITISH ART CENTER, Rare Bks & Mss (Non-Circulating)
      • Call Number: NE1860 B72 1852+ Oversize
      • Status:Not Checked Out
      • Provenance:Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
       
    • Local Notes:Ruled sheets for (subscriber's names) which were bound inside the back cover have been removed.
    • Notes:Cover title.
      Publisher from first plate.
      A traveller's specimen of Bradshaw & Blacklock's The pictorial casket of coloured gems. Originally issued in 15 monthly parts, it was published as a single volume in 1853 with a total of 30 color plates. This sample book, with 11 plates, presumably "travelled" at the time of the part issue (1852?)
    • Variant and related titles:Pictorial casket of coloured gems.
    • Format:Book
    • References:Wakeman, G. Guide to 19th century colour printers, p. 16
      Lewis, C. Picture printing, p. 322-323
    • Subjects:Color prints.
      Publishers and publishing--Great Britain.
      Gift books.
    • Subjects (Local Yale):Chron.--[1852?].
      Manchester (England)--Imprints--Specimens--[1852?].
      Bradshaw & Blacklock--Publisher.
    • Genre/Form:Chromoxylographs--[1852?].
    • Also listed under:Bradshaw and Blacklock.