The wisdom of Solomon
By: illuminated by Samuel Stanesby.
Contributors: Ashbee & Dangerfield; Hanbury & Co.
Publisher: Griffith & Farran
Published: 1861
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 25
Subjects: Gift books -- Specimens; Illumination of books and manuscripts -- Specimens.
Genres: Specimens.
Work titles: Bible. O.T. Apocrypha. Wisdom of Solomon. English. 1861.
Notes: Date taken from British Library Public Catalogue.

Chromolithographed decorative t.p.

Black lithographed text with chromolithographed wide decorative borders.

Preliminary plate is blank with oval chromolithographed decorative border.

Plate [2] is with chromolithographed border around central mounted collotype illustrating a marble statue.  Plate is unsigned and without imprint.

MASS copy 1: Bound in lavender morocco-grain cloth blocked in gold and blind.  Covers with central sunken panel with chromolithographed paper onlay.  Boards with bevelled edges; a.e.g.  With pale pastel yellow glazed endpapers.  With bookseller's label: "W. & A. Webster  Booksellers  and  Stationers,  60 Piccadilly.".  With ownership inscription: "John Burns.".

MASS copy 2: Bound in red sand-grain cloth blocked in gold and blind.  Boards with bevelled edges; a.e.g.  With cream endpapers.

MASS copy 3: Bound in red-brown morocco-grain cloth blocked in gold and blind in the same design as copy 1.   Covers with central sunken panel with chromolithographed paper onlay printed with the same design as copy 1.  Boards with bevelled edges; a.e.g.  With cream glazed endpapers.  With binder's ticket: "Hanbury & Co.  Binders,  80 Coleman St.  E. C.".  With bookseller's label: "Sold by  J. T. Cook,  Hill Street,  Richmond.".  With ownership inscription: "Fianach Jardine".  Lacking plate [1] and t.p.

Trinity Library copy: prelim. plate wanting; some pages bound in incorrect order.