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| Title | Goblin market |
| Detail Depicted | Illustrations--Relief--Wood Engravings (Page [3]) |
| Creator/Author | Christina Rossetti [Rossetti, Christina Georgina, 1830-1894] |
| Publisher | Macmillan & Co. |
| Place of Publication | London [England--London] |
| Date of Publication | 1893 |
| Subjects (LCSH) | Fine bindings--England.
Artists' illustrated books.
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| Genre Heading | Poetry
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| Bibliographic Elements | [6], 63, [3] p. : ill. ; 19 cm. (18mo) |
| Printing Method | Letterpress |
| Image Production Process | Relief prints--Wood engravings
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| Illustrator | Laurence Housman [Housman, Laurence, 1865-1959] |
| Binding | Decorated publisher's trade case binding in green cloth with elaborate gold stamped medieval strapwork and plant-form pattern overall, design by Laurence Housman with his initials in the pattern on the back cover. (Source is Engen, Rodney. Laurence Housman. Stroud, Glos.: Catalpa Press Ltd., 1983. P. 51.)
Edges trimmed in gilt. |
| General Notes | Signatures: [A][superscript 6] B-F[superscript 6] [$1 signed; missigning A4 as E]; 36 leaves, pp. [6] 1-2 [3-4] 5-6 [7-10] 11-12 [13-16] 17-18 [19-20] 21-28 [29-30] 31-32 [33-34] 35-42 [43-46] 47-50 [51-54] 55-63 [64]
Colophon resembles historiated initial C with letters RR and words Edinburg and Printers in border.
Twelve plates and numerous decorations, all from process blocks after Housman. (Source is Ray, Gordon N. The Illustrator and the Book in England from 1790 to 1914. New York: Pierpont Morgan Library, 1976.)
Catchwords. |
| Language | English |
| Digital Collection | Historical Book Arts Collection |
| Repository | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections Division. |
| Repository Collection | Special Collections |
| Call Number | SpecColl Rare Books PR5237.G6 |
| Digital Reproduction Information | Scanned in RGB color using an Olympus C-2000 Zoom digital camera and saved in.jpg format and resized to768x600 ppi. 2003. |
| Content | In this edition, the illustrations for Christina Rossetti's best-known fantasy poem about two sisters were created by Laurence Housman more than three decades after the first edition.
"Laurence Housman, one of the most innovative or influential illustrators of the 1890s, in a brief career of less than ten years, created some of the most striking black and white illustrations of the period. His original meticulously drawn pen and ink drawings remain rare today. His first success was his illustrated edition of Goblin Market, and it is now considered Housman's masterpiece. Housman's illustrations and decorations were innovative attempts at creating from his self-professed 'Freakish imagination'" (Source is Fairy Folk in Fairy Land. London: Peter Naham at Leicester Galleries, 1997.) |
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