Sabbath bells chimed by the poets
By: illustrated by Birket Foster.
Contributors: Cundall, Joseph, 1818-1895; Foster, Myles Birket, 1825-1899; Leighton, John, 1822-1912; Evans, Edmund, 1826-1905 (printer)
Edition: New edition.
Publisher: Ward and Lock
Published: 1862
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 111
Subjects: Gift books -- Specimens
Other titles: Sabbath bells as chimed by the poets.
Notes: Preliminary col. wood-engraved plated included in pagination.

Date based on publisher's address.  Cf. Brown, Philip A. H.  London publishers and printers, 1982.

"The thanks of the Editor are due to ... ; Mr. Birket Foster, for the beautiful drawings with which the work is illustrated; and to Mr. Edmund Evans, for the great care he has taken in engraving them on wood and printing them in colours, and for the excellence of the typography."--p. [vi].

Edited by Joseph Cundall.  Cf. McLean, Ruari. Victorian book design and colour printing, 1972.

Includes works by Grahame, Sigourney, L. E. Landon, Coleridge, Rogers, Wm. Howitt, Cowper, Longfellow, Charles Lamb and others.

Illustrations are the same, with some differences in colour, as those used in the 1861 edition of this title published by Joseph Cundall.  Includes some additional wood-engraved tail-pieces.  See McLean O 539.  See also McLean O 537, McLean O 538, McLean O 541 and McLean O 542.

MASS copy 1: Bound in red sand-grain cloth blocked in gold and blind.  Central oval panel design blocked in gold on upper cover and in blind on lower cover identical to design blocked in gold on the upper cover of McLean O 538, but with the signature "JL" [i.e. John Leighton] removed. [This design was also used, without the signature, on the upper covers of McLean O 541 and McLean O 542].  Boards with bevelled edges; a.e.g.

MASS copy 2: Bound in blue morocco-grain cloth blocked in gold and blind in the same design as copy 1.  With identical central oval panel design as copy 1 blocked in gold on the upper cover only.  Boards with bevelled edges; a.e.g. Lacking preliminary col. wood-engraved plate.