Aphorisms of the wise & good
By: illuminated by Samuel Stanesby.
Contributors: Bessent, Thomas; Hanbury & Co.
Publisher: Griffith & Farran
Published: 1862
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 28
Subjects: Conduct of life -- Quotations, maxims, etc.; Gift books -- Specimens.; Illumination of books and manuscripts -- Specimens.
Genres: Specimens.
Other titles: Aphorisms of the wise and good
Notes: Date taken from British Library Public Catalogue.

Chromolithographed decorative t.p.

Text printed with red rules and wide chromolithographed decorative borders and initials.

Preliminary plate with full-page chromolithographed border around central mounted oval collotype showing an engraved portrait of John Milton.  Plate is unsigned and without imprint.

Interleaved.

MASS copy: Bound in light green morocco-grain cloth blocked in gold and blind with purple paper onlays blocked in gold.  Spine with imprint: "Griffith & Farran".  Boards with bevelled edges; a.e.g.  With cream glazed endpapers.  With binder's ticket: "Hanbury & Co.  Binders,  80, Coleman St.  E. C.".  With later ownership inscription: "FAnJ" [i.e. Fianach Jardine].