Examples of Victorian Cloth and Paper Bindings

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Edwin Austin Abbey

• Selections from the Hesperides and Noble Numbers of Robert Herrick, 1882

Aubrey Beardsley

• Malory’s Le Morte D’Arthur, 1894
• Farr’s The Dancing Faun, 1894
• Oscar Wilde’s Salome, 1894
• The Yellow Book, volume 1, 1894
• The Yellow Book, volume 2, 1894
• Allen’s The British Barbarians, 1895
• The Yellow Book, volume 3, 1894
• The Rape of the Lock, 1896
• Jonson’s Volpone, 1896
• The Yellow Book, volume 4, 1895
• The Savoy, January 1896
• The Savoy, April 1896
• H. T. Wharton’s Sappho, 1898
• Dowson's Poems, 1905

Charles Bennett

• Bennett's Mr Wind and Madam Rain, 1864
• Bennett's The Sad History of Greedy Jem and All his Little Brothers, 1865

Will Bradley

• Richard LeGallienne's The Romance of Zion Chapel, 1898
• Richard LeGallienne's The Quest of the Golden Girl, 1896

Charles Edmund Brock

• C.E. Brock and A.H. Williamson's binding and bookcover design for Dickens's A Christmas Carol and The Cricket on the Hearth
• C.E. Brock and A.H. Williamson's binding, end-papers, jacket and illustrations for the Children's Illustrated edition of A Christmas Carol and The Cricket on the Hearth
• C.E. Brock's binding for Hood's Humorous Poems
• C.E. Brock's binding for Swift's Gulliver's Travels

Hablot Knight Browne’s [Phiz]

• Charles Lever’s Jack Hinton, 1842
• Rattlebrain [Richard Halse]’s Sir Guy de Guy: A Stirring Romaunt, 1864

Archie Campbell

• William S. Murphy's Modern Drapery and Allied Trades

• Stories from [Hans Christen] Andersen
• Two Little Crusoes

George Cruikshank

• George Cruikshank’s Table Book, 1845
• George Cruikshank’s Comic Almanack, 1853
• George Cruikshank's Fairy Library, 1865

Charles Altamont Doyle

• Moody Robinson's Coelebs the Younger in Search of a Wife, 1859

Richard Doyle

• Introduction
• Doyle and the cover of Punch
• The 1844 cover of Punch
• The 1849 cover of Punch
• Dickens's' The Chimes, 1845
• Hughes' The Scouring of the White Horse, 1859
• The Adventures of a Watch, 1859
• The Story of Jack and the Giants, 1858

Robert Dudley

• Introduction
• Longfellow's The Song of Hiawatha, 1860
• Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress, 1861
• Henry W. Will's Poet’s Wit and Humour, 1861
• Favourite English Poems, 1862
• Wilmott's Sacred Poetry, 1863
• A Memorial of the Marriage of H.R.H. Albert Prince of Wales and H.R.H. Alexandra Princess of Denmark, 1864
• John George Edgar's Historical Anecdotes of Animals, 1865
• Henrietta Lushington's Hacco the Dwarf, 1865
• The Atlantic Telegraph, 1866
• Henrietta Lushington's Almeira's Castle, 1866

Kate Greenaway

• Under the Window, 1878
• The Language of Flowers. 1884
• Robert Browning’s The Pied Piper of Hamelin, 1885

Ernest Griset

• Griset’s Grotesques, 1847
• Greenwood’s The Hatchet Throwers, 1866
• Greenwood’s The Purgatory of Peter the Cruel, 1866

Henry Noel Humphreys

• Binding, The Art of Illumination and Missal Painting, 1849
• H. W. Longfellow’s Kavanagh, 1858
• The Months Illustrated by Pen and Pencil. 1864,
• Our Life Illustrated by Pen and Pencil, 1865

Laurence Housman

• Introduction
• Rossetti's Goblin Market, 1893
• Housman's A Farm in Fairyland, 1894
• Housman's Green Arras, 1896
• Jean Barlow's The End of Elfintown, 1894
• Marillier’s Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 1899
• William Cowper’s The Diverting History of John Gilpin

Arthur Hughes

• Introduction
• Speaking Likenesses, 1874
• Tennyson's Enoch Arden, 1866

Owen Jones

• Lockhart’s Spanish Ballads. 1842
• Leigh Hunt’s A Jar of Honey from Mount Hybla, 1848
• Taylor's Pictures of English Landscape, 1863

Jessie M. King

• Binding, Aucassin and Nicolette
• Binding, Lamb's Tales from Shakespeare
• Binding, Our Trees and How to Know Them
• Binding, Keats's Isabella and the Pot of Basil
• Binding, The Grey City of the North, Edinburgh
• Binding, Jacobite Lays

Ethel Larcombe

• Thomas Archer's Little Tottie
• A.E. Armstrong's Madge's Mistake
• Maria Edgeworth's The Good Governess
• John Kirkland's The Modern Baker, Confectioner, & Caterer
• Annie S. Swan's nto the Haven

John Leech

• The Comic Latin Grammar, 1858
• Dean Hole’s A Little Tour in Ireland, 1859
• Gilbert A Beckett’s The Comic History of Rome, 1860

John Leighton

• Introduction
• Gay's Fables
• Goldsmith's Prose and Poetical Works, 1854
• Spencer's Faerie Queene, 1855
• Sir Walter Scott's The Lord of the Isles, 1857
• Thomson's The Seasons, 1857
• Blair's The Grave, 1858
• Falconer's The Shipwreck, 1859
• A Round of Days, 1866
• Old English Ballads, 1864
• Lyra Germanica: the Christian Life, 1868
• Defoe's Robinson Crusoe, 1869
• The Court Album, 1850-57
• Madre Natura Versus the Moloch of Fashion, 1874?
• A Round of Days
• [Possibly] Mrs. Gatty's Parables from Nature, 1864

Daniel Maclise

• The Story of the Norman Conquest, 1866

Thomas Robert Macquoid

• Introduction
• Robert Bloomfield’s The Farmer’s Boy, 1857
• Byron’s Poems, 1858-60
• Sabbath Bells Chimed by the Poets, 1861
• M. Betham Edwards’s Little Bird Red, Little Bird Blue, 1862

William Morris

• Morris's Love is Enough or the Freeing of Pharamond, 1873

Talwin Morris

• Introduction
• Mary C. Debenham's The Whispering Winds, 1895
• Frederic Ives Carpenter's English Lyric Poetry 1500-1700, 1897
• Maria Edgeworth's Moral Tales, 1897
• Thomas Archer's William Ewart Gladstone, 1898
• Charles Lever's Harry Lorrequer, 1898
• William Shakespeare's Henry the Fifth, 1898
• Amelia Hutchinson's The Reign of the Princess Naska, 1899
• H. C. Davidson's The Book of the Home, 1900
• Thomas Archer's Queen Victoria, 1901
• Charles Lamb's Essays of Elia, 1906
• English tales in verse, 1906
• Charles Annandale's The Concise English Dictionary, 1915
• J. R. Ainsworth-Davis's The Natural History of Animals
• J. R. Ainsworth-Davis's Science in Modern Life
• J. Wortley Axe's The Horse: Its Treatment in Health & Disease
• Annette Lyster's A Soldier's Son
• R. P. Scott and Keith T. Wallas's The Call of the Homeland
• Robert Stewart's Scottish Ballads

William Ralston

• Introduction
• Henry Kirke White’s Poetical Works, 1867
• Golden Thoughts for Golden Fountains, 1868
• Charles Dickens’s Sketches of Young Couples, Young Ladies, Young Gentlemen, 1868
• Henry Mayhew’s The Magic of Kindness, 1868
• C. W. Cole’s Tippoo, Tale of a Tiger, 1886

W. Harry Rogers

• Introduction
• Longfellow's Poetical Works, 1853
• The Soldier’s Dream, 1856
• Orton's Excelsior, 1859
• Milton's L'Allegro, 1859
• Harriet Myrtle's A Visit to the New Forest, 1859
• John Bunyans's Pilgrim’s Progress., 1860
• Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice
• Quarles's Emblems, 1861
• Mrs. Gatty's Parables from Nature, 1865
• Two Centuries of Song, 1867
• Tupper's Proverbial Philosophy, 1867
• Cowden Clarkes' Many Happy Returns of the Day!, 1869
• Lyndon's Emblems of Christian Life, 1870
• Lyndon's Fairy Mary’s Dream, 1870
• British Heroes in Foreign Wars

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

• Introduction
• C. Rossetti's Goblin Market and Other Poems, 1862
• D. G. Rossetti's Poems, 1870

• Hakes's Parables and Tales, 1872
• Shelley's Poetical Works, 1872

William Bell Scott [?]

• Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress (1887)

Henry Shaw

• Goldsmith's The Vicar of Wakefield (1855)

John Sliegh

• Introduction
• Longfellow’s Evangeline, 1856
• Campbell's Gertrude of Wyoming, 1857
• Poets of the Nineteenth Century, 1857
• The Course of Time, 1857
• Odes and Sonnets, 1865
• Longfellow’s Poetical Works, 1865

Godfrey Sykes

• The Cornhill Magazine, 1862

George Heywood Sumner

• De La Motte Fouque's Undine
• De La Motte Fouque's Sintram and his Companions

Hugh Thomson

• Introduction
• Elizabeth Gaskell's Cranford, 1891
• Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, 1894
• Coridon’s Song, 1894
• Hugh Dobson's The Story of Rosina, 1895
• George Eliot's Scenes of Clerical Life, 1906

A. A. Turbayne

• Frederick Farrar's The Life of Christ as Represented in Art, 1894
• Maria Edgeworth's Ormond, 1895
• Reynard the Fox, 1895
• Thomas Love Peacock's Gryll Grange, 1896
• Maria Edgeworth's Helen, 1896
• Frederick Marryat's The King’s Own, 1896
• Sir Walter Scott's The Lady of the Lake, 1898
• Little Flowers of St Francis, 1899
• Layard's Suppressed Plates, 1907

Albert Warren

• Rhymes and Roundelays in Praise of a Country Life, 1857
• Miltons's Comus, 1858
• Thomson's's The Seasons
• The Home Affections of the Poets, 1858
• Willmott’s Summer Time in the Country (I), 1858
• Willmott’s Summer Time in the Country (II), 1858
• Wordsworth's Poems, 1859
• The Merrie Days of England, 1859
• The Poems of Oliver Goldsmith, 1859
• Bryant’s Poems, 1860
• Common Wayside Flowers, 1860
• Gems from the Poets, 1860
• Thomas Moore's Lalla Rookh, 1860
• The Art Album, 1861
• Watts's Divine and Moral Songs, 1866
• Wayside Posies, 1867
• Ingelow's Poems, 1867
• The Spirit of Praise, 1867
• Edgar Allen Poe's Poetical Works, 1868

Paul Woodroffe

• Little Flowers of St Francis, 1899
• Israfel’s Ivory, Apes and Peacocks, 1899
• The Little Flowers of St. Benet, 1901

Unidentified designers

• Newman's An Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine, 1845
• The Poetical Works of Mrs Felicia Hemans, 1851
• Tupper's Complete Poetical Works, 1851
• Tennyson's Idylls of the King, 1859
• Hughes's Tom Brown at Oxford, c. 1861
• The Studio
• Tennyson's The Holy Grail and Other Poems, 1870
• Henley's Poems, 1898
• Stone's Eton, 1909
• Two editions of works by Pater, 1910
• Gems of English Art, 1869
• Thackeray's Vanity Fair, 1869
• Good Words for the Young (cloth), 1870
• Collier's The Great Events of History from the Beginning of the Christian Era till the Present Time", 1871
• Benjamin Disraeli’s Henrietta Temple, c. 1880
• Haslam's “Full Salvation” as seen in Bunyan's “Pilgrim's Progress,” c. 1880
• Quilter's Reminiscences in Art, Life, and Literature, 1892
• Bailey's Festus, 1893
• Banister Fletcher's A History of Architecture on the Comparative Method
• Mrs J.W. Whymper's Beauty in Common Things, 1874

Paper Bindings

• Good Words for the Young (paper binding with a chromolithographic design), 1870
• London Society (a periodical)
• Notes by Mr. Ruskin . . . on Turner, 1878
• The Quiver, 1875

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• Bibliography

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