Lot 623

COSWAY BINDING. SHELLEY Percy B.

Auction: 21 July 2004 at 11:30 BST
£9,988
Description
Adonais: an elegy on the death of John Keats, author of Endymion, Hyperion, etc. ... Cosway binding of strawberry crushed morocco, upper cover set with water colour miniatures on ivorine of St. Peter’s Cathedral, Rome and portraits of Shelley & Keats, by C.B. Currie, framed within gilt vine decorations, the spine decorated with gilt bunches of grapes within compartments, dark green watered silk endpapers, inner gilt doublures, t.e.g., by Riviere, in its original fleece lined slipcase, tear across last blank leaf, 4to., London: Noel Douglas, 1927
Note: A facsimile of the first edition printed at Pisa in 1821.
