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In the Dawn of the World. Being Twenty-five Pictures Illustrative of a Portion of the Book of Genesis by Edward Burne-Jones
Illustrated by: Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones (English, 1833–1898)
Illustrated by: Robert Catterson-Smith (Irish, born in 1853)
Publisher: Charles E. Goodspeed (American, 1867–1950)
Printer: Daniel Berkeley Updike (American, 1860–1941)
Printer: Merrymount Press (American, founded in 1893)
Illustrated by: Robert Catterson-Smith (Irish, born in 1853)
Publisher: Charles E. Goodspeed (American, 1867–1950)
Printer: Daniel Berkeley Updike (American, 1860–1941)
Printer: Merrymount Press (American, founded in 1893)
1903
Place of Publication: Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Medium/Technique
Illustrated book with 25 photomechanical relief prints
Dimensions
Overall: 35.3 x 22.3 x 1 cm (13 7/8 x 8 3/4 x 3/8 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Miss Anna C. Hoyt
Accession Number49.251
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsIllustrated books
Boston: Charles E. Goodspeed, 1903
Description(Boston: Charles E. Goodspeed, 1903) 35.3 cm; [16 ff.]; original publisher's half green cloth, tan printed paper boards.
Printed by Updike at the Merrymount Press in an edition of 185 copies; this is an unnumbered copy outside the edition. A prefatory note by Philip Burne-Jones explains that these designs were intended for a large Kelmscott edition of the Bible, Biblia Innocentium, which was never finished. Lady Burne-Jones authorized Catterson-Smith (who had collaborated on the Kelmscott Chaucer) to translate Burne-Jones's drawings onto blocks, which were then photo-processed to produce the relief plates for this edition (it is felt that if they were hand-cut, the colophon or preface would have specified such).
Printed by Updike at the Merrymount Press in an edition of 185 copies; this is an unnumbered copy outside the edition. A prefatory note by Philip Burne-Jones explains that these designs were intended for a large Kelmscott edition of the Bible, Biblia Innocentium, which was never finished. Lady Burne-Jones authorized Catterson-Smith (who had collaborated on the Kelmscott Chaucer) to translate Burne-Jones's drawings onto blocks, which were then photo-processed to produce the relief plates for this edition (it is felt that if they were hand-cut, the colophon or preface would have specified such).
ProvenanceMiss Anna C. Hoyt, by whom given to MFA, March 10, 1949.