English Sacred Poetry, of the Sixteenth, Seventeenth, Eighteenth, and Nineteenth Centuries
Frontispiece; title page; preface; contents; list of illustrations; pp. 1-387 including 80 illustrations by various artists. Decorative endpapers. Bound in boards covered with medium brown leather; blind-stamped decorative borders and center design on both covers; title and editor gold-stamped on spine; five blind-stamped diamond shapes within frames on spine. Gilt and gauffered page edges.
Artwork Details
- Title: English Sacred Poetry, of the Sixteenth, Seventeenth, Eighteenth, and Nineteenth Centuries
- Editor: Selected and edited by Robert Eldridge Aris Willmott (British, Bradford-on-Avon, Wiltshire 1809–1863 Nettlebed, Oxford)
- Illustrator: George Henry Andrews (British, Lambeth 1816–1898 Hammersmith)
- Illustrator: Henry Hugh Armstead (British, London 1828–1905 London)
- Illustrator: William Paton Burton (British (born India), Madras 1828–1883 Kincardineshire, Scotland)
- Illustrator: Sir John Gilbert (British, London 1817–1897 London)
- Illustrator: William Holman Hunt (British, London 1827–1910 London)
- Illustrator: Charles Samuel Keene (British, Hornsey, Middlesex 1823–1891 London)
- Illustrator: Henry Stacy Marks (British, London 1829–1898 London)
- Illustrator: Frederick Richard Pickersgill (British, London 1820–1900 Yarmouth, Isle of Wight)
- Illustrator: Samuel Read (British, Needham Market, Suffolk 1817/18–1883 Sidmouth, Devon)
- Illustrator: Frederick Augustus Sandys (British, Norwich 1829–1904 London)
- Illustrator: John Sleigh (British, active 1841–72)
- Illustrator: Frederick Smallfield (British, London 1829–1915 London)
- Illustrator: Frederick Walker (British, London 1840–1875 Perthshire, Scotland)
- Illustrator: John Dawson Watson (British, Sedbergh, Yorkshire 1832–1892 Conwy, Wales)
- Illustrator: Harrison William Weir (British, Lewes 1824–1906 Appledore, Kent)
- Illustrator: Joseph Wolf (German, Moers 1820–1899 London)
- Engraver: Dalziel Brothers (British, active 1839–93)
- Publisher: Routledge, Warne & Routledge (London) & New York
- Printer: R. Clay, Son(s), and Taylor (London)
- Date: 1862
- Medium: Illustrations: wood engraving
- Dimensions: 9 1/4 x 7 x 1 1/2 in. (23.5 x 17.8 x 3.8 cm)
- Classification: Books
- Credit Line: Gift of Sinclair Hamilton, 1965
- Object Number: 65.629.16
- Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints
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