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Babes and Blossoms

Book
ca. 1908 (published)
Artist/Maker
Blackie & Son (published)
Robinson, Charles (illustrator)
Place of origin
Glasgow (published)

68 unnumbered pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates. Colour vignette of infant holding harebell, sitting on grass on title page. Colour illustrated frontispiece. Illustrated stiff paper boards. Front: title lettered in black on dull pink scroll, publisher in black in green grass frame. Colour illustration of girl holding stems of rose-bush, supporting the frame. Flowers on either side. Back: blank. Spine: red cloth, title and publisher lettered in gold and gold daisy motif. Endpapers: green silhouette vignettes of pot-plant with child's head as flower and girl with watering-can. Numerous chromolithographic illustrations some full page and some in text. On double leaves.

Object details

Categories
National Art Library
Children & Childhood
Illustration
Books
Object type
Book
TitleBabes and Blossoms (published title)
Materials and techniques
Colour lithography
Printing Ink
Paper (Fiber Product)
Cloth
Colour Lithography
Printing
Brief description
Book, Babes and Blossoms, by Walter Jerrold (Walter Copeland), illustrated by Charles Robinson (Glasgow: Blackie & Son, [1908?]). NAL Pressmark: 861.AA.7565.
Physical description
68 unnumbered pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates. Colour vignette of infant holding harebell, sitting on grass on title page. Colour illustrated frontispiece. Illustrated stiff paper boards. Front: title lettered in black on dull pink scroll, publisher in black in green grass frame. Colour illustration of girl holding stems of rose-bush, supporting the frame. Flowers on either side. Back: blank. Spine: red cloth, title and publisher lettered in gold and gold daisy motif. Endpapers: green silhouette vignettes of pot-plant with child's head as flower and girl with watering-can. Numerous chromolithographic illustrations some full page and some in text. On double leaves.
Dimensions
  • Closed height: 190mm
  • Closed width: 142mm
  • Closed depth: 21mm
Approximate dimensions open: width (left to right)180mm x depth (head to tail) 190mm x height (from base to top of object) 140mm
Production typeMass produced
Marks and inscriptions
  • "AR" (Initialled in ink "AR" (ie. Anne Renier) on lower fly leaf.)
  • "Faca non verba" (Bookplate on upper pastedown with armorial crest)
  • "Audrey Margaret Gordon Fitch" (Bookplate on upper pastedown with armorial crest)
  • "Audrey" (Child's inscription on uper pastedown)
  • "Audrey Fitch" (Inscribed upper flyleaf)
Credit line
Donated by Anne Renier and F.G. Renier.
Object history
From the Library of Anne Renier and F.G. Renier. Acquired by the Reniers in August 1959 from Clift. Bookplate on upper pastedown with armorial crest: "Faca non verba", "Audrey Margaret Gordon Fitch". Child's inscription "Audrey" on upper pastedown and inscribed "Audrey Fitch" on upper flyleaf.
Subject depicted
Flowers
Other number
861.AA.7565 - NAL Pressmark
Collection
National Art Library
Library number
38041802186825

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Record createdMay 20, 2021
Record URL
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