Victorian cloth binding designs.- Coleridge (Samuel Taylor) Ancient Mariner, illustrations by David Scott, ownership name on endpapers, Nelson & Sons, 1883 § Scott (Sir Walter) The Lady of the Lake, book-label of Robin de Beaumont, ownership name on front free endpaper, Edinburgh, Adam and Charles Black, 1853; The Lay of the Last Minstrel, illustrations by Birket Foster, book-label of Robin de Beaumont, ownership name on front free endpaper, Edinburgh, Adam and Charles Black, 1854; The Lord of the Isles, book-label of Robin de Beaumont, ownership name on front free endpaper, Edinburgh, Adam and Charles Black, 1857, original decorative cloth, g.e., some blind-stamping, gilt, spine ends and extremities a little rubbed but generally very bright and sharp examples of early bindings; and 17 others, early Victorian trade bindings, v.s. (21)
⁂ A lovely group of early Victorian trade bindings, classic of the period with ornate and highly decorative blind-stamping and gilt border decorations. This set remarkably bright.
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