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Flowers from Stratford on Avon
Artist
Jerrard, Paul
Author
Shakespeare, William
Title
Flowers from Stratford on Avon
Description
Style: Floral; Caption: Upper cover; Colour: White / cream; Edge: Gilt
Date Binding: 19c
Medium Decorative Technique: Blocked in gold|Lacquered; Cover Material: Papier Mache
Accession number
Shelfmark: c27m10
Place of creation Binding: England
Object history Text: [1852?]; London; Unspecified
Notes Designed by Henry Noel Humphreys. Measures 195x283x20mm. Gutta purcha (adhesive binding, not sewn). Paper (dyed yellow) has been drawn over the boards. The boards resemble wood, and are smooth bevelled. Yellow endleaves and pastedowns printed in gold. A gift book produced by Paul Jerrard, who developed and patented unusual coverings. See E M B King, Victorian Trade Bindings, 1830-1880: A Descriptive Bibliography, London, 2002, n65. For another Jerrard binding (not digitised) see c21e1 and example of "Patent Bindings for Special Presents"
References

Leathlean, Howard PAUL JERRARD, PUBLISHER OF `SPECIAL PRESENTS.' 1991 The Book Collector, Volume 40, No.2, Summer 1991 pp.177-178; 185-186;19 Howard Leathlean, Henry Noel Humphreys and the Getting Up of books in the mid nineteenth century In the Book Collelctor. Vol 38 no 2. Summer 1989 pp.204-208. This is one of a series of gift books issued under Jerrard's name, which has a substantial artistic input from Humprheys, as evidenced by the Journal of Humphreys' son, also named Noel.

McLean, R. Victorian Publishers' Book-bindings in Cloth and Leather (1973) p. 83 p.72.
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