The Good Shunammite
GRUNER], [Lewis, [Henry Noel, HUMPHREYS] .
EARLY CHROMOLITHOGRAPHS IN SIGNED HAYDAY BINDING
Published: [Longmans Brown Green & Longmans], [1847]
Stock code: 25072
Price: £460.00
Sm., 4to., First Edition [Sole Edition], with 20 fine chromolithographed plates FINISHED BY HAND, illuminated borders and initials, some moderate spotting throughout; contemporary paper mache boards BY HAYDAY, elaborately blocked in blind and lettered in gilt, back with four raised bands, bevelled boards, doublures ruled in blind, gilt edges, very neatly rebacked with old backstrip laid down, a very good, firm copy.
The binding is signed on front paste-down. 'This book was completed for Longman Brown Green and Longmans the last day of October at the Studio of Lewis Gruner in the Year of our Lord 1847'. The plates by Humphreys are illuminated by Gruner, 'and probably printed in the establishment of Owen Jones, whose style the illuminations resemble' (McLean: Victorian Book Design, p.92).