Research Catalog

Title

The rose garden of Persia / by Louisa Stuart Costello, author of "Specimens of the early poetry of France," &c.

Publication

• London : Longman, Brown, Green, & Longmans, 1845.
• London : Vizetelly Brothers and Co., printers and engravers

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

• Costello, Louisa Stuart, 1799-1870
• Costello, Dudley, 1803-1865
• Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, publisher.
• Vizetelly Brothers & Co., printer.

Description

2 unnumbered pages, xvi, 193 pages, 1 unnumbered page : color illustrations; 19 cm

Summary

"A collection of selections from Persian literature. The compiler was a miniature painter and one of the most voluminous and popular writers of her day. She was one of the first to call attention to the occupation of copying illuminated manuscripts and worked at this business both in Paris and London"--New York Public Library. Spencer Collection of illustrated books.

Subjects

• Gauffered edges (Binding) > France > 19th century
• Fore-edge paintings (Binding) > France > 19th century
• Persian poetry > 747-1500 > History and criticism
• Poets, Persian > Biography
• Mosaic bindings (Binding) > France > 19th century
• Persian poetry > 747-1500 > Translations into English

Genre/Form

• Mosaic bindings (Binding) – France – 19th century.
• Fore-edge paintings (Binding) – France – 19th century.
• Gauffered edges (Binding) – France – 19th century.

Note

• Title page and text within ornamental borders, printed in red.
• Selections are translated into English by Costello, with biographical information and commentary.
• Illustrations: Illustrated title in gold and colors on verso of title page; 11 pages with illuminated borders or ornaments in Persian designs, the work of Costello and her brother Dudley Costello.

Bibliography (note)

• "Authorities consulted": page 189.

Indexed In (note)

• New York Public Library. Spencer Collection of illustrated books

Additional Formats (note)

• Also available online via HathiTrust (Getty Research Institute copy, Harvard University copy) and Internet Archive (Getty Research Institute copy).

Source (note)

• Gift of Miss M.W. Bruce.

Provenance (note)

• With bookplate of Samuel Putnam Avery. See Anderson Galleries catalog, sale number 1442, November 10-12, 1919 (Rare and valuable books and bindings collected by the late Samuel P. Avery of New York), lot 249.

Binding (note)

• Publisher's binding of red paper boards printed in gold and black.
• Binding, by Joly, of very dark blue morocco, gilt. Sides within a narrow border of fillets, with a semis of alternate rows of small inlaid red and blue flowers, with a small open diamond-shaped ornament between each. Doublé with yellow Chinese silk within a narrow border. Endleaves covered with same yellow silk. With gauffred and painted edges in a Persian design within a burnished gold border.

Call Number

*OMO (Costello, L. S. Rose garden of Persia. 1845)

LCCN

14020090

OCLC

5320330

Title

The rose garden of Persia / by Louisa Stuart Costello, author of "Specimens of the early poetry of France," &c.

Publisher

London : Longman, Brown, Green, & Longmans, 1845.

Manufacturer

London : Vizetelly Brothers and Co., printers and engravers

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Indexed In:

New York Public Library. Spencer Collection of illustrated books, page 21

Bibliography

"Authorities consulted": page 189.

Additional Formats

Also available online via HathiTrust (Getty Research Institute copy, Harvard University copy) and Internet Archive (Getty Research Institute copy).

Binding

Publisher's binding of red paper boards printed in gold and black.

Spencer Coll. copy: Binding, by Joly, of very dark blue morocco, gilt. Sides within a narrow border of fillets, with a semis of alternate rows of small inlaid red and blue flowers, with a small open diamond-shaped ornament between each. Doublé with yellow Chinese silk within a narrow border. Endleaves covered with same yellow silk. With gauffred and painted edges in a Persian design within a burnished gold border. NN

Provenance

Spencer Coll. copy: With bookplate of Samuel Putnam Avery. See Anderson Galleries catalog, sale number 1442, November 10-12, 1919 (Rare and valuable books and bindings collected by the late Samuel P. Avery of New York), lot 249. NN

Source

Copy in *OMO: Gift of Miss M.W. Bruce.

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Place of Publication

England London.

Added Author

Costello, Louisa Stuart, 1799-1870, editor, translator, illustrator, writer of added commentary.

Costello, Dudley, 1803-1865, illustrator.

Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, publisher.

Vizetelly Brothers & Co., printer.

Avery, Samuel Putnam, 1822-1904, former owner.

Joly, Antoine, 1838-1917, binder.

Other Form:

Online version: Rose garden of Persia. London : Longman, Brown, Green, & Longmans, 1845 (OCoLC)793549812

Research Call Number

*OMO (Costello, L. S. Rose garden of Persia. 1845) (Locked cage)

Stuart 9303

Spencer Coll. Eng. 1845 (Costello, Louisa Stuart. Rose garden of Persia)