Lot 387
Cosway Binding.- Browning (Robert) A Selection from the Works, 1865.
Hammer Price: £3,500
Description
Cosway Binding.- Browning (Robert) A Selection from the Works, engraved portrait, tear to pp.177-178 repaired, superb "Cosway" binding of brown morocco, by Rivière & Son, the upper cover incorporating a fine watercolour circular miniature of the author on ivory by Miss C.B.Currie under glass and framed by narrowly-spaced gilt lines radiating out from the miniature forming a star shape with a double gilt fillet border, spine gilt in compartments of oval sun with radiating rays, with "Cosway binding" in gilt to fore-edge of upper board and "Invented by J.H,Stonehouse" to fore-edge of lower, pale grey watered-silk doublures and endpapers, with "Miniatures by C.B.Currie" at foot of rear doublure, binding signed at foot of front turn-in, t.e.g., others uncut, preserved in cloth slip-case, 8vo (c.165 x 135mm.), 1865.
⁂ A fine example of a signed Currie Cosway binding of c.1930 with certificate bound in at beginning, "This is No. 915 of the Cosway Bindings invented by J.H.Stonehouse, with Miniatures on Ivory by Miss Currie" signed by both.
Description
Cosway Binding.- Browning (Robert) A Selection from the Works, engraved portrait, tear to pp.177-178 repaired, superb "Cosway" binding of brown morocco, by Rivière & Son, the upper cover incorporating a fine watercolour circular miniature of the author on ivory by Miss C.B.Currie under glass and framed by narrowly-spaced gilt lines radiating out from the miniature forming a star shape with a double gilt fillet border, spine gilt in compartments of oval sun with radiating rays, with "Cosway binding" in gilt to fore-edge of upper board and "Invented by J.H,Stonehouse" to fore-edge of lower, pale grey watered-silk doublures and endpapers, with "Miniatures by C.B.Currie" at foot of rear doublure, binding signed at foot of front turn-in, t.e.g., others uncut, preserved in cloth slip-case, 8vo (c.165 x 135mm.), 1865.
⁂ A fine example of a signed Currie Cosway binding of c.1930 with certificate bound in at beginning, "This is No. 915 of the Cosway Bindings invented by J.H.Stonehouse, with Miniatures on Ivory by Miss Currie" signed by both.
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