Joseph and His Brethren. Genesis Chapters XXXVII, XXXVIII. XL

Book Description

London: ,. 1865. 4to. H Decorative Cloth.. Near Fine. Near Fine. London: Day & Son (1865). 4to, decorative dark red cloth with geometric, pseudo-Egyptian borders and ornament in gilt, white and green. Publisher's binding by Leighton Son & Hodge. Near fine with modest wear to binding and foxing limited to blank preliminary, edge of title page and colophon. Brilliant example of mid-Victorian color printing, illuminated by Owen Jones and Henry Warren and drawn on the stone by Albert Warren. Alternating pages of drawn text and illustration designed as pairs of facing pages, all within Egyptianesque rectangular borders. From six to thirteen colors were used per page. Ruari McLean, Victorian Book Design: " .his pages owe nothing to the traditions of book design which are based on engraving: but since the text is drawn to imitate the regularity of type, there is no obvious link with the manuscript tradition either. a new conception of book design, which prefigure the Kelmscott openings of thirty years later.". Illustrated by Owen Jones.

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