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Album Cover

1847-1871 (designed)
Artist/Maker
Rogers, William Harry (designer)
Place of origin
Great Britain (designed)

Cover for an album of designs for walking stick and door handles, cutlery, glass vessels, stained glass, book covers and clasps. The album is half bound in leather with green buckram covers and its back is missing. The designs, many of which are in pen and ink, and some examples of actual book covers are stuck into the pages of the album.


Object details

Categories
Books
Designs
Object type
Album cover
Materials and techniques
Leather and buckram
Leather
Buckram
Bookbinding
Brief description
Cover for an album of designs by William Harry Rogers, leather and buckram, Great Britain, 1847-1871
Physical description
Cover for an album of designs for walking stick and door handles, cutlery, glass vessels, stained glass, book covers and clasps. The album is half bound in leather with green buckram covers and its back is missing. The designs, many of which are in pen and ink, and some examples of actual book covers are stuck into the pages of the album.
Dimensions
  • Height: 38.8cm
  • Width: 27.5cm
Credit line
Purchased with the Assistance of the Friends of the National Libraries
Object history
Historical significance: 'These book illustrations are part of the W.Harry Rogers Archive and to quote the information on the archive provided by 'RW' on 6 February 1998 on the registered file 1997/1476:

'It is extraordinarily rare to have this kind of documentation at this level of production for the middle decades of the 19th century. The fact the (sic) the state of the designs ranges from rough sketches to finished drawings and proofs allows the pieces to document the design process very closely.'
Bibliographic references
  • Houfe, Simon 'The Dictionary of British Book Illustrators and Caricaturists.' Woodbridge, Suffolk: Baron Publishing, Antique Collectors' Club, revised 1981 437 p. ISBN 0902028731
  • Ball, Douglas 'Victorian Publishers' Bindings'. London: The Library Association, 1985. 90 p. and 155 p.
  • Engen, Rodney K. 'Dictionary of Victorian Wood Engravers'. Cambridge: Chadwyck-Healey, 1985. 223 p. ISBN 0859641392
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
E.693:1-1998

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Record createdDecember 8, 2000
Record URL
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