Lot 621
COSWAY BINDING. DICKENS Charles
Auction: 21 July 2004 at 11:30 BST
£3,760
Description
Sikes and Nancy: a reading by Charles Dickens ... with an introduction and a general bibliography of the reading editions by John Harrison Stonehouse ... Frontis., errata slip, Cosway binding of black crushed morocco, heavily tooled in gilt, with watercolour on ivorine port. of Dickens by C.B. Currie on the upper cover, and another on the lower cover, spine decorated gilt in compartments, red watered silk endpapers, inner gilt doublures, t.e.g., by Riviere., in its original fleece lined slipcase, 8vo., London: Sotheran, 1921
Note: No 60 of 250 copies for sale, signed by the publisher.
Footnote
Provenance: Purchased Henry Sotheran Ltd, 43 Picadilly, London, December 1927