Lot 620
COSWAY BINDING. DICKENS Charles
Auction: 21 July 2004 at 11:30 BST
£14,100
Description
David Copperfield, a reading in five charpters ... with a note on the romatic history of Charles Dickens and Maria Beadnell by John Harrison Stonehouse ... Port. frontis., Cosway binding of black crushed morocco with watercolour portraits on ivorine on the upper (Dickens) and lower (Maria Beadnell) covers by C.B. Currie, set within heavily gilt borders, spines decorated gilt in compartments, red watered silk, endpapers, inner doublures, t.e.g., by Riviere, in its original fleece lined slipcase, 8vo., London: Sotheran, 1921
Note: No 222 of 250 copies, signed by the publisher
Footnote
Provenance: Purchased Henry Sotheran Ltd, 43 Piccadilly, London, December 1927