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<dl><dd>Ornamental borders, and illustrations, in color</dd>
<dd>"Remarks of the illuminator. Descriptive index of the miracles" signed : H.N.H. [i.e. Henry Noel Humphreys]</dd>
<dd>"The title-page contains a figure of the Saviour ... in a niche, ornamented in a style corresponding with the rest of the volume."--p. iii</dd>
<dd>"It has been sought to render the [papier mâché] cover also appropriate, by enriching it with medallions representing the principal miracles; it has been partly taken from a ... cover in carved ivory, executed in the 12th century ... The designs of the medallions are original."--p. iv</dd>
<dd>Possibly printed by Owen Jones.--Cf. Friedman, Joan. Color printing in England. New Haven, 1978, p. 166</dd>
<dd>Library's copy 1 is bound with black embossed calf covers with oval paper onlay in center of each cover. Library's copy 2 bound by Messrs Jackson &amp; Sons with paper mache covers</dd>
<dd>31, iv pages : 18 cm</dd>
<dd>'The "illuminated" gift books which became a feature of British publishing during the 1840s were essentially gift books whose text was often, but not always, taken from the Bible, and whose pages were decorated in colour in a style closely or distantly resembling that of a medieval manuscript. They were usually printed by chromolithography.[The binding's design was] carved in a mould (of steel?) into which was poured a mixture of plaster on a papier-mache base. They are part of the Victorian. dream of medievalism, to be placed reverently on a velvet cloth on the piano.' - McLean, Victorian Bookbindings in Paper, pp. 13 &amp; 51. -- abebooks website</dd>
<dd>"Remarks of the illuminator. Descriptive index of the miracles" signed: H.N.H.: pages i-iv at end</dd>
<dd>"The title page contains a figure of the Saviour ... in a niche, ornamented in a style corresponding with the rest of the volume."--Page iii</dd>
<dd>"It has been sought to render the [papier mâché] cover also appropriate, by enriching it with medallions representing the principal miracles; it has been partly taken from a ... cover in carved ivory, executed in the 12th century ... The designs of the medallions are original."--Page iv</dd></dl><br>Subjects: Jesus Christ; Illumination of books and manuscripts; Bookbinding; Jesus Christ -- Miracles; Jesus Christ -- Art; Illumination of books and manuscripts -- Specimens; Miracles of Jesus Christ; England</div>
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Humphreys, Henry Noel, 1810-1879</div>
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