Author: Austin Dobson (with Fifty Illustrations by Hugh Thomson)
Title: The Ballad of Beau Brocade and other Poems of the XVIIIth Century
Publication Information: London: Kegan, Paul, French, Trubner & Co. MDCCCXCII
Call #: PR4606 .B3 1892
Book Size: 19.3 cm (H); 13.5 cm (L); 2 cm (spine)
Cover: Maroon cover with embossed design gilt; man and woman on top of cover holding a banner with "The Ballad of Beau Brocade" on it; rest of the title (and author and illustrator) gilt in the center of front cover; flowers in design on bottom and top left and right sides of front cover; back cover plain; bevelled edges on front and back covers; spine has full title, full author name, full illustrator name; and publisher name (all in gilt); floral design on spine seems to match that on the front cover.
Inside Book Covers: plain paper
Paper Edges: top paper edge is gilt; side and bottom are not
Illustrations: list of illustrations included
Comments:
- inside advertisement 'By the Same Author" - "Old World Idylls" Eleventh Edition 1892 and "At the Sign of the Lyre" Eighth Edition 1891; and ad includes other text: "In the Parchment Library (Edited)" - Eighteenth Century Essays, Gay's Fables, Vicar of Wakefield, Selected Poems of Matthew Prior - texts that presumably would appeal to the same audience
- note illustration opposite the title page: "She once had been the rage" (and there is a page between the illustration and the title page)
- prefatory note by Austin Dobson (dated September 1892)
- poem dedication - to Lady Bower
- table of contents
- list of illustrations
- notes in the back of the text
Pedagogical Uses/Notes:
- 19th-Century British Text Production
- Representations of the British 18th Century
- Canonicity
- Advertising
- Illustration
