Lot 411
  • 411

Lamb, Charles & Mary

Estimate
15,000 - 20,000 USD
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Description

  • IVORY
Mrs. Leicester's School ... illustrated by Winifred Green. London: [Temple Press, Letchworth for] J.M. Dent, [& E.P. Dutton in New York], [1899]



4to (7 1/2 x 7 7/8 in.; 190 x 200 mm). Half-title, frontispiece and vignette title in color, color plates, black and white text illustrations and head-pieces.

Condition

The silk of the doublures and endleaves lightly worn
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Catalogue Note

A charming Cosway binding with two large oval miniatures painted on ivory by C.B. Currie, one set in each cover. Red crushed morocco, double-fillet border, gilt-tooled bower of leaves and stamps draped around the miniatures, gilt-tooled leaves on the turn-ins, gray watered-silk doublures and endleaves, top edge gilt, by Rivière & Son, gilt-stamped on upper doublure "Miniatures by C.B. Currie," number 794 of the Cosway bindings according to a printed sheet signed by J.H. Stonehouse and C.B. Currie bound in, original pictorial wrappers (before application to boards) bound in, in a midnight-blue half-morocco slipcase.