Journal of a tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson, LL.D.
Dr Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)
Category
Books
Date
1852
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Wallington, Northumberland
NT 3064568
Summary
Full description
Orientation: Vertical Text Substrate: machine-made wove paper Ink/Pigment: black printing ink Type: BOUND BOOK Binding Type: Case binding, bds & cover Date of Binding: contemporary Binder's Name: English End Leaves: tipped single fold of yellow coated paper, the outer leaf pasted to the board Structure: English Edges: plain cut, no decoration, polished Spine Lining: moderate round, angled joints, continuous lining of printed waste (advertising pages from a magazine) over an overall lining of mull. End Bands: None Bookmark: None Boards: Covering: Bookcloth Tooling Spine: blocked in gold, the title and the word ‘Illustrated’ in oval panels within leaves and flowers. Tooling Sides: embossed with the National Illustrated Library block in blind on both boards. Furniture: None Enclosure: None Binding Notes: National Illustrated Library edition, forming vol V of Boswell’s Life of Johnson.
Bibliographic description
xxvi,[4],361,[3]p.,plate (frontis.) . ill.. . 8vo.. Marginal marks in blue crayon; some page corners turned down. Page 57 torn, not affecting text.. Provenance: Twentieth-century pictorial armorial bookplate, a re-working of an earlier William Bell Scott pictorial Trevelyan bookplate (Franks 29799) of Sir Walter Calverley Trevelyan (1797-1879), lettered: Charles & Mary Trevelyan [i.e. Sir Charles Philips Trevelyan (1870-1958), & Mary Katharine, (m.1904).] Arms: Trevelyan impaling Bell. Not in Franks.. Binding: Publisher's embossed cloth.
Makers and roles
Dr Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) Dr Robert Carruthers (1799 - 1878)