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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Gems of literature, and elegant extracts
  title info:
    title: Gems of literature and elegant extracts
  title info:
    title: Gems of literature, elegant, rare, & suggestive
  name:
    name part: Nimmo, William Philip
    name part: 1831-1883
  name:
    name part: Paton, J. Noël (Joseph Noël)
    name part: 1821-1901
    role:
      role term: wood engraver.
  name:
    name part: Lawson, John
    name part: active 1865-1909
    role:
      role term: wood engraver.
  name:
    name part: Paterson, Robert
    name part: active 1860-1899
    role:
      role term: wood engraver.
  name:
    name part: Corner, James Mackenzie
    role:
      role term: wood engraver.
  name:
    name part: Cheshire, William
    role:
      role term: wood engraver.
  name:
    name part: Hayhurst, Robert J., ǂd 1929-2016
    role:
      role term: former owner.
  name:
    name part: Pollard, Selina
    role:
      role term: former owner.
  name:
    name part: W.P. Nimmo, Hay & Mitchell
    role:
      role term: publisher.
  name:
    name part: Murray and Gibb
    role:
      role term: printer.
  type of resource: text
  genre: Wood engravings-Specimens-Scotland.
  genre: Embossed cloth bindings-Specimens-Scotland.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: stk
    date issued: 1870
    date issued: 1890
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: viii, 147 pages, 1 unnumbered (blank) page : illustrations (wood engravings) ; 22 cm
  note: illustrated by eminent artisits.
  note: Title and each page of text enclosed in simple border.
  note: "Gems of literature" was originally published in 1866, and "Elegant extracts" in 1872. An edition containing both volumes was issued approximately 1890. The present volume apparently contains only "Gems of literature."
  note: Illustrations engraved by Robert Paterson, J.M. Corner, William Cheshire, Williamson and others. Some illustrations signed "NP" [i.e. Noel Paton]; two are signed "JLawson."
  note: Includes works by Carlyle, Wordsworth, Johnson, Byron, Pope, Scott, Shelley, Burns, Longfellow, Milton, Spenser, Keats and others.
  note: Handwritten note in pencil on front paste-down: "This edition is not the same as the 1866 edn. which was almost without artistic merit. This had two plates each by John Lawson and N.P. (Noel Paton?). Interesting binding of moiré ribbed cloth."
  note: White, Gleeson. English Illustration, page 127
  note: Reid, Forrest. Illustrators of the eighteen sixties, page 254
  subject:
    geographic code: e-uk-st
  subject:
    topic: Poetry
    genre: Collections
  subject:
    topic: English literature
    genre: Excerpts
  subject:
    topic: Gift books
    genre: Specimens
    temporal: 19th century
  subject:
    hierarchical geographic:
      country: Scotland
      city: Edinburgh
  classification: AY14 .G45 1870z
  related item:
    note: White, Gleeson. English Illustration, page 127
  related item:
    note: Reid, Forrest. Illustrators of the eighteen sixties, page 254
  record info:
    record content source: TXA
    record creation date: 230221
    record change date: 20230221182745.6
    record identifier: in00002725350
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng