COSWAY BINDING. WILLIAMSON George C.
Auction: 21 July 2004 at 11:30 BST
£17,625
Description
Richard Cosway, R. A. and his wife and pupils: miniaturists of the eighteenth century ... 1st edition, frontis. and other plates, Cosway binding of blue crushed morocco, the upper cover set with 5 (the lower cover with 1), watercolour portrait miniatures on ivorine of Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire and others by C.B. Currie, within an elaborately gilt tooled border, spine decorated gilt in compartments, inner gilt doublures, apricot coloured watered silk endpapers, by Riviere, in its original fleece lined slipcase, 4to., London: Bell, 1897
Note: One of 350 copies. No 889 of the Cosway bindings, signed by J.H. Stonehouse and Miss C.B. Currie