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Midsummer eve : a fairy tale of love

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Type of record: Book

Title: Midsummer eve : a fairy tale of love

Other titles: Fairy tale of love

Level: Item

Classmark: BC Gen HAL

Creator(s): Hall, Mrs S C (1800-1881)

Additional creator(s): Bastin, John (1840-1850) (Wood-engraver); Creswick, Thomas (1811-1869) (Illustrator); Dalziel, Edward (1817-1905) (Wood-engraver); Dalziel, George (1815-1902) (Wood-engraver); Elmore, Alfred (1815-1881) (Illustrator); Fairholt, F W (1814-1866) (Illustrator); Forster, John (1812-1876) (Donor); Franklin, John (1800-1861) (Illustrator); Frost, W E (1810-1877) (Illustrator); Goodall, Frederick (1822-1904) (Illustrator); Green, W T (1837-1872) (Wood-engraver); Hulme, Frederick William (1816-1884) (Illustrator); Huskisson, Robert (1820-1861) (Illustrator); Landseer, Thomas (1795-1880) (Illustrator); Lecurieux, J (Illustrator); Linton, Henry Duff (1816-1899) (Wood-engraver); Maclise, Daniel (1806-1870) (Illustrator); Macquoid, Thomas Robert (1820-1912) (Illustrator); Marchant, J (Book designer); Mason, Abraham John (1794-1858) (Wood-engraver); Meadows, Joseph Kenny (1790-1874) (Illustrator); Measom, George S (Wood-engraver); Measom, William (Wood-engraver); Paton, Sir J Noël (1821-1901) (Illustrator); Stanfield, Clarkson (1793-1867) (); Topham, Francis William (1808-1877) (); Ward, E M (1815-1879) (); Wehnert, Edward Henry (1813-1868) (); Weir, J H (); Williams, Joseph Lionel (1815-1877) (); Cook and Co (); Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans ()

Publisher: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans; Cook an Co., Printers, 76, Fleet Street

Publication city: London

Date(s): 1848

Language: English

Size and medium: 8 unnumbered pages, 270 pages, 12 unnumbered leaves of plates

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/651990

Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991002902949705181

Description

Half-title with illustrations signed by "KM."


Illustrators include: D. Maclise, C. Stanfield, T. Creswick, E.M. Ward, A. Elmore, W.E. Frost, J. Noel Paton, Frederick Goodall, Thomas Landseer, E.H. Wehnert, R. Huskisson, F.W. Topham, Kenny Meadows, F.W. Fairholt, J. Franklin, J.H. Weir, F.W. Hulme and J. Lecurieux. Wood-engravers include: W.T. Green, G. and E. Dalziel, J. Bastin, J. Williams, H. Linton, G. Measom, W. Meason, A.J. Mason, &c. Initial letters designed by T.R. Macquoid. Cover designed by J. Marchant. (Listed following introduction).


Introduction signed "A.M.H. The Rosery, Old Brompton". Author notes book first appeared "in detached parts, in "The Art-Union Journal."


Pages of text and illustration with plain borders.


With printer's device on title page verso.


With wood-engraved title page within plain border.


Wove papers; octavo format in fours.

Additional description

Bookplate of Mervyn Lloyd Peel. Signature Mervyn Ll. Peel, 1899 to front free endpapers. Inscription To Lady Morgan, with the kind regards of the author and the best wishes of the season, Christmas 1847, Anna M. Hall, The Rosery

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