Lot 412
  • 412

Hassell, John

Estimate
25,000 - 35,000 USD
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Description

  • IVORY
Memoirs of the Life of the Late George Morland. London: Albion Press for James Cundee and C. Chapple, 1806



4to (12 1/4 x 10 in.; 310 x 254 mm, uncut). Frontispiece portrait, aquatint additional title, engraved plates, vignette tailpiece.

Provenance

Phoebe Boyle (sale, Anderson Galleries, November 19, 1923, lot 219) — Eli Springs (sale AAA - Anderson Galleries, November 19-20, 1934, lot 383)

Condition

Edge-wear in silk endleaf, some marginal spotting and soiling, half-inch tear in upper joint near head of spine.
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Catalogue Note

A superb Cosway binding with 16 circular or oval miniature portraits or domestic scenes after Morland set in the covers, probably the work of C. B. Currie. Green levant morocco, double-fillet border surrounding a dense field of leafy sprays, an urn and an artist's palette, gilt-ruled dentelles, olive watered-silk doublures and endleaves, by Rivière & Son after designs by J.H. Stonehouse, in an old red-morocco solander case.