Sabbath bells chimed by the poets
By: illustrated by Birket Foster.
Contributors: Cundall, Joseph, 1818-1895; Foster, Myles Birket, 1825-1899; Evans, Edmund, 1826-1905; Weir, Harrison, 1824-1906; Vizetelly, Henry, 1820-1894; Leighton, John, 1822-1912; Suddon, Alan, 1924-; Dalziel Brothers; Vincent Brooks, Day & Son
Edition: New edition.
Publisher: Ward, Lock, and Tyler
Published: 1871
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 144
Subjects: Gift books -- Specimens
Other titles: Sabbath bells as chimed by the poets.
Notes: Preliminary col. wood-engraved plated included in pagination.

Includes two additional pages between page 72 and 73 numbered "72*" and "73*".

Date taken from British Library Public Catalogue.

T.p. and text printed within thin decorative rule border.

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.

Col. wood-engraved Illustrations are the same, with some differences in colour, as those engraved by Edmund Evans in the 1861 edition of this title published by Joseph Cundall.  See McLean O 539.  See also McLean O 537, McLean O 538, McLean O 540 and McLean O 542.

One wood-engraved illustration each signed "H. Weir", "BF", "B. Foster", "AB", "Green" and "S. Williams".  A few are signed "Dalziel Sc", and two are signed "H. Vizetelly Sc.".

MASS copy 1: Bound in green sand-grain cloth blocked in gold, black and blind.  Central part of panel design blocked in gold on upper cover identical to design blocked in gold on upper cover of McLean O 540, which is identical to design blocked on upper cover of McLean O 538, but with the signature "JL" [i.e. John Leighton] removed.  With additional border blocked in black around title letters of design blocked in gold on upper cover.  [This design was also used, without the signature, on the upper cover of McLean O 542].  With publisher's monogram blocked in blind on lower cover.  Boards with bevelled edges; a.e.g.  With prize label dated [18--]: "Edinburgh Institution  23, Charlotte Square.  Third Prize  Awarded by the Directors to Miss Annie Brodie ... John R. McLaren  Master".  With ownership inscription "FJ" [i.e. Fianach Lawry".

MASS copy 2: Bound in red-brown sand-grain cloth blocked in gold, black and blind in the same design as copy 1.  Boards with bevelled edges; a.e.g.  Lacking t.p.  With first prize label dated 1875: "City of Toronto Public Schools ... awarded by the Board of School Trustees ... to Jennie Nasmith".  From the library of Alan Suddon.