Lot 498
  • 498

Moore, Thomas

Estimate
6,000 - 8,000 USD
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Description

  • ivory
Moore's Irish Melodies. London: [Spottiswoods & Co. for] Longmans, Green & Co., 1873



Small 4to (6 3/4 x 5 1/8 in.; 170 x 130 mm). Half-title, each poem set within a photo-engraved border with vignette, 6-page publisher's advertisement at the end.

Provenance

Mariano I. Drago (bookplate)

Condition

Spine and upper cover lightly sun-faded to brown.
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Catalogue Note

A nostalgic Cosway binding with a circular miniature of an Irish lass bearing a bouquet, painted on ivory by C. B. Currie, and set in the upper cover. Dark green crushed morocco, single-fillet border around a thin frame filled with gilt dots, gilt clover and leafy stamps along the frame, the miniature encircled by a dotted frame with leaf and heart-shaped stamps, dark green watered silk doublures and endleaves, edges gilt, by Rivière & Son, gilt-stamped on upper doublure "Miniatures by C.B. Currie," number 812 of the Cosway bindings according to a printed leaf signed by J.H. Stonehouse and C.B. Currie bound in, in a green cloth slipcase.