The Scarborough Album of History and Poetry

(COLE, John)

Verlag: Published by John Cole, Library, New Borough Street; And by Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, & Green, London, Scarborough, 1825

Beschreibung

Édition de luxe. Printed on white satin by the Scarborough antiquary and publisher, John Cole, with a limitation notice hand-written in ink, presumably by Cole, on the front free endpaper: "Only 2 copies of this work printed on white satin, & 2 on pink satin." Octavo. pp. [i-viii], 1-148 [2 (advertisements)]. Illustrated with four in-text engravings and two inserted satin sheets with full-page engravings: the frontispiece: "Scarborough Cliff Bridge" and facing p. 48: "Iron Chest, Found in the Palace Scarbro". Bound in printed silk over boards (printed on the front, spine, and back cover). The silk boards are dust soiled, with wear to the joints and edges, loss to backstrip, and foxing to the endpapers, very good. Engraved armorial bookplate of John Rhodes ("Ung Durant Ma Vie") on the front pastedown, and two small early ownership signatures on the front free endpaper (in ink and in pencil). Laid-in is a printed business card: "The South Cliff Hair Cutting and Shampooing Saloons" with a wood-engraved view of Scarborough. The historic English town of Scarborough, located on the North Sea coast of North Yorkshire, was the subject of several uncommon historical works published by Cole during the 1820s. A fortified settlement devastated during the Norman Conquest in 1066 and revived in the 12th century with the building of a castle there, in the 17th century Scarborough developed into a prosperous spa town. Although printing on silk has always been uncommon because of the technical challenges involved, it enjoyed a brief vogue during the first quarter of the nineteenth century with the advent of white-line wood engraving. Entire books printed on satin are rarely encountered. A fine example. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 417994

Bibliografische Details

Titel: The Scarborough Album of History and Poetry

Verlag: Published by John Cole, Library, New Borough Street; And by Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, & Green, London, Scarborough

Erscheinungsdatum: 1825

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: Very Good