Keywords: Proverbial philosophy. (The first and second series.) Illustrated. A new edition. Edward Moxon & Co., Dover Street - Upper and lower cover and spine (11651f11).jpg Style Panel design Lettered cover eg intitals titles Diaper Publishers binding; Caption Upper and lower cover and spine; Colour Green; Edge Gilt exhibition history Decorative Technique Blocked in blind Blocked in gold; Cover Material Cloth pebble grain Design by William Harry Rogers Bevelled boards Gilt edges Green coarse pebble-grain cloth On the lower cover the borders are blocked in blind with a plant pattern The central rectangle contains a gold lettering-piece shaped as a pennant The title and author letters are in relief and in a medallion the Moxon monogram is blocked in gold On the upper cover the same plant design borders are blocked in gold The central rectangle is blocked in gold with a diagonal chequerborard pattern Each diamond is blocked in hatch The same pennant-shaped gold lettering-piece in the rectangle is also blocked on the upper cover with the letters in relief and the Moxon monogram blocked in gold The spine is fully blocked in gold with a similar design as the upper cover Signed WHR with small initials at the base in gold Text copyright Edmund M B King and available under a CC0 license object history Text 1867; London; Unspecified object type Cc-zero place of creation Binding England place of discovery Ball Douglas Victorian publishers' bindings / London Library Association c1985 p 158 Says this copy signed HR Edmund M B King The Book Cover Designs of William Harry Rogers in For the love of the binding Studies in bookbinding history presented to Mirjam Foot p 321; col plate 11 Edmund M B King Victorian decorated trade bindings London 2003 British Library image http //www bl uk/catalogues/bookbindings/LargeImage aspx RecordId 020-000015577 ImageId ImageId 55141 Copyright BL Proverbial philosophy The first and second series Illustrated A new edition Edward Moxon Co Dover Street Uploaded with GWToolset Proverbial philosophy The first and second series Illustrated A new edition Edward Moxon Co Dover Street - Upper and lower cover and spine 11651f11 http //www webarchive org uk/bldatasets/bindings/11651 f 11 jpg 19th-century bookbinding Bookbinding British Library Bookbindings |