Lot 615
COSWAY BINDING. ARETZ Gertrude
Auction: 21 July 2004 at 11:30 BST
£18,800
Description
Napoleon and his women friends ... 1st English translation, port. frontis. and other plates, Cosway binding of brown crushed morocco , the upper cover set with 5 watercolour on ivorine portraits of Napoleon, etc. by C.B. Currie, within gilt surrounds, spine decorated gilt in compartments, inner gilt doublures, apricot coloured watered silk endpapers, t.e.g., by Riviere, in its original fleece lined slipcase, 8vo., London: Allen & Unwin, 1927
Footnote
Provenance: Purchased Henry Southeran Ltd, 43 Piccadilly, London, March 1930