The miracles of Our Lord.
Contributors: Humphreys, Henry Noel, 1810-1879, illus.
Publisher: Longman & Co.
Published: 1848
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 31
Subjects: Jesus Christ -- Miracles.; Jesus Christ -- Art.; Illumination of books and manuscripts -- Specimens, reproductions, etc.; Bookbinding -- England -- 19th century -- Specimens.
Description: 'The "illuminated" gift books which became a feature of British publishing during the 1840s were essentially gift books whose text was often, but not always, taken from the Bible, and whose pages were decorated in colour in a style closely or distantly resembling that of a medieval manuscript. They were usually printed by chromolithography.[The binding's design was] carved in a mould (of steel?) into which was poured a mixture of plaster on a papier-mache base. They are part of the Victorian. dream of medievalism, to be placed reverently on a velvet cloth on the piano.' - McLean, Victorian Bookbindings in Paper, pp. 13 & 51. -- abebooks website.
Notes: In case.
Ornamental borders, and illustrations, in color.
"Remarks of the illuminator.  Descriptive index of the miracles" signed: H.N.H. [i.e. Henry Noel Humphreys]
"The title-page contains a figure of the Saviour ... in a niche, ornamented in a style corresponding with the rest of the volume."--p.iii.
"It has been sought to render the [papier mâché] cover also appropriate, by enriching it with medallions representing the principal miracles; it has been partly taken from a ... cover in carved ivory, executed in the 12th century ... The designs of the medallions are original."--p. iv.