Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
Moore, Thomas, 1779-1852
Title:
Paradise and the Peri / Thos. Moore.
Published / Created:
[London] : Day & Son , [1860]
Physical Description:
[54] pages : color illustrations ; 34 cm
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
PR5054 .P37 1860+ Copy 2 Oversize
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Stephen Parks, Yale BA 1961

Rare Books and Manuscripts
PR5054 .P37 1860+ Copy 1 Oversize
Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
"Owen Jones and Henry Warren, illuminators. On stone by Albert Warren."--Title page verso.

Chromolithographed throughout. Title and text in gold and colors; full page illustrations.

Date of publication from English Catalog of Books.

Pages interleaved with guard sheets.

Bound in gilt-stamped brown cloth; design by Owen Jones.

Friedman, J. Color printing in England, 1486-1870, 154

English catalogue of books, volume 1, page 534

McLean, R. Victorian publishers' book-binding, page 102

McLean, R. Victorian book design, pages, 128-129

Ray, G.N. Illustrator and the book in England from 1790 to 1914, 229

BAC: British Art Center copy 1 bound in publisher's brown cloth. Lacks guard sheets described in other copies.

BAC: British Art Center copy 2 bound in publisher's brown cloth. Lacks guard sheets described in other copies. Inscribed: A New Year's gift to my father, from Alick Bruce, 1862.

Selected exhibitions: "Color Printing in England, 1486-1870" (Yale Center for British Art, 20 April-25 June, 1978).
Exhibition History:
Color Printing in England, 1486-1870 (Yale Center for British Art, April 20, 1978-June 25, 1978)
Subject Terms:
Illumination of books and manuscripts -- Specimens. | Bruce, Alick -- Provenance.
Form/Genre:
Chromolithographs -- 1860.
Contributors:
Day & Son, publisher. | Jones, Owen, 1809–1874, illustrator, binding designer. | Warren, Henry, 1794–1879, illustrator. | Warren, Albert H. (Albert Henry), lithographer.