Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
Adams, William, 1814-1848
Title:
Sacred allegories / by the Rev. William Adams, M. A. ; late fellow of Merton College, Oxford.
Edition:
New edition / with engravings from the original designs by Charles W. Cope, R. A., John C. Horsely, A.R.A., Samuel Palmer, Birket Foster, and George E. Hicks.
Published / Created:
London; Rivingtons, 1869.

Oxford; Rivingtons, 1869.

Cambridge : Rivingtons, 1869.
Physical Description:
296 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
BV4515 .A33 1869
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of David and Judith Ross
Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
Wood engravings by Edmund Evans, W. T. Green, Thomas Bolton, William Measom, Horace Harral, and Dalziel; after Birkett Foster, George E. Hicks, Samuel Palmer, John C. Horsely, Charles W. Cope, and Thomas Robert Macquoid.

Printed by Muir and Paterson, Edinburgh.

Includes head- and tail-pieces.

NSTC, 2C37262

BAC: British Art Center copy bound in gilt- and black-stamped green morocco by Burn & Co. Inscribed: Presented to Miss Jamieson with the kind regards & best wishes of her Sunday school class. Wannambool 25 July 1873.
Contents:
Memoir of the author -- The shadow of the Cross -- The distant hills -- The old man's home -- The King's messengers.
Subject Terms:
Allegories. | Bible -- Theology. | Ethics in the Bible. | Christian life. | Christian ethics. | Rivingtons -- Publisher. | Muir and Paterson -- Printer. | Burn and Co. -- Binder. | Ross, David and Judith -- Provenance | Jamieson, Miss -- Pres. insc. from her Sunday school class, July, 1873 -- Provenance.
Form/Genre:
Wood engravings -- 1869.
Contributors:
Cope, Charles West, 1811–1890, ill. | Horsley, John Callcott, 1817–1903, ill. | Palmer, Samuel, 1805–1881, ill. | Foster, Myles Birket, 1825–1899, ill. | Hicks, George Elgar, 1824–1914, ill. | Macquoid, Thomas Robert, 1820–1912. | Evans, Edmund, 1826–1905, engraver. | Green, W. T., active 1837–1872, engraver. | Bolton, Thomas, active 1851–1893, engraver. | Measom, William, engraver. no_linkage | Harral, Horace, engraver. no_linkage | Dalziel Brothers, engraver.