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, Lock, & Co.
Published: 1879
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 150
Subjects: Gift books -- Specimens
Notes: Preliminary col. wood-engraved plated included in pagination.

Date taken from English Catalogue of Books, form of publisher's name and 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.

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 541, McLean O 540, McLean O 538 and McLean O 537.

Includes illustrative wood-engraved head-pieces and tail-pieces.

MASS copy: Bound in maroon fine rib-grain cloth blocked in gold and black.  Central design blocked in gold on upper cover identical to that blocked on the covers 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. [The central part of this design was also used, without the signature, on the upper cover of McLean O 541].  Spine with imprint: "Ward.Lock & Bowden Ld." [form of publishers name from 1893-1896; cf. Topp, Chester W.  Victorian yellowbacks & paperbacks, Vol. II : Ward & Lock, 1995].  Boards with bevelled edges; a.e.g.  With presentation inscription dated 1898.  With presentation inscription from Fianach Lawry to Ruari McLean dated 1960.