Victorian Bookbinding

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1880s (Part I)

Lucile (1885)    Lucile (1880s)   Lucile (1889)


“Owen Meredith” was the pen-name of Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton, Earl of Lytton, Viceroy of India and a popular Victorian poet. Lucile, a romantic yet witty novel in verse, went through hundreds of editions (legitimate and pirated) and hundreds of thousands of copies. The three editions shown here were all published by Thomas Y. Crowell of New York within the decade of the 1880s. Each was meant to appeal to a different level of society: (l-r) a lady’s boudoir book, and a cheap edition, a family library or parlor edition.

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True Heroism. Edinburgh: Gall & Inglis, ca. 1880.

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True Herioism

 


The Poetical Works of John Milton

Milton, John. The Poetical Works of John Milton. London: George Routledge and Sons, ca.1880.

Blue-gray cloth, with beveled boards.

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Balzac. Droll Stories Collected from the Abbeys of Touraine. London: William Mitchell and Company, ca.1880.

Red cloth blocked in gold and black on the front and spine. Cover design after the illustrations by Gustave Doré.

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Droll Stories

 


La Société Galante et Littéraire au XVIIIe Siècle

Bonhomme, Honoré. La Société Galante et Littéraire au XVIIIe Siècle. Paris: Édouard Rouveyre, 1880.

            Binding: Chambolle-Duru
Orange morocco leather, with paneled spine, gilt lettering, and gilt rules and stamps.

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Glückliche Kinderzeit. Ca. 1880.

Chromolithograph onlay.

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Glückliche Kinderzeit

 


Life of William Blake

Gilchrist, Alexander. Life of William Blake. 2 vols. London: Macmillan and Co., 1880.

Blue cloth blocked in gold on front and spine. Cover design by Frederick Shields after an original design by William Blake.

 


Herbert, George. The Works of George Herbert in Prose and Verse, Edited from the Latest Editions, with Memoir, Explanatory Notes, Etc. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1880.

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The Works of George Herbert

 


Keramic Art of Japan

Audsley, George A., and James L. Bowes. Keramic Art of Japan. London: Henry Sotheran, 1881.

 

Black sand-grained cloth blocked in gold on front, spine, and back.

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Pope, Alexander. The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope. Boston: D. Lothrop & Company, 1883.

Maroon cloth blocked in gold and black on front and spine, with beveled boards.

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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope

 

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