Lights and shadows : a Yule tide rhme / by [a robin].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Murillo, Bartolomé Esteban, 1617-1682, illustrator.

Cowell's Anastatic Press, publisher.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Christmas--Poetry.

Christmas.

Genre:

anastatic printing.

Penn Provenance:

Law, Edward J. (bookplate) (Kislak Center copy)

Physical Description:

[1], VI, [1] leaves (last leaf blank) : 1 illustration ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Ipswich : Cowell's Anastatic Press, [approximately 186-?]

Notes:

The word "by" in title is followed by a picture of a robin with open beak perched on a holly branch.

Publication date conjectured by bookseller.

Leaves hand-colored in red, blue, and green and illuminated in gold.

Small (35 x 24 mm) black and white albumen reproduction of Bartolomé Esteban Murillo's Madonna and Child (approximately 1670; held at Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister (Dresden, Germany)) affixed to title leaf.

Title leaf signed in lower right corner: EINNA.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center copy PR3991.A2 L54 1860z purchased for the Penn Libraries in 2025 from White Fox Fare Books & Antiques. Illustrated blue bookplate ("arms crests monograms EX LIBRIS EDWARD J LAW ENGLAND NANTWICH LINDLEY BENNETTS BRIDGE HUDDERSFIELD CHESHIRE CO. KILKENNY IRELAND YORKSHIRE BISHOPSLOUGH anastatic printing") of Edward J. Law on page [2] of cover. Bookseller's description of this copy laid in.

OCLC:

1545514677