Lot 616
COSWAY BINDING. BACON Francis, Viscount St. Alban
Auction: 21 July 2004 at 11:30 BST
£8,225
Description
Essays, moral, economical, and political ... Engraved titlepages to each section, Cosway binding of brown crushed morocco, watercolour on ivorine miniature port. of Bacon by C.B. Currie on the upper cover set within an elaborate gilt recessed border, a.e.g., green watered silk endpapers, inner gilt doublures, by Riviere., in its original fleece lined slipcase, 12mo., London: Sharpe, 1828
Note: Cosway binding no 840, signed J.H. Stonehouse and C.B. Currie
Footnote
Provenance: Purchased Henry Southeran Ltd, 43 Piccadilly, London, March 1930