Bookbindings, English

Cowper, William. The Task A Poem. London: [R.& R. Clark, Edinburgh, for] James Nesbet and co., 1855. 8vo, steel-engraved text illustrations; some marginal spotting, contemporary blue calf, roll-tooled gilt decorative border, spine richly gilt, gilt- and gauffered-edges, gilt-tooled turn-ins, silver silk doublures and endleaves with white-embroidered leaves; a few tiny scuffs. — A Glossary of Terms used in Grecian, Roman, Italian, and Gothic Architecture. Oxford: John Henry Parker, 1840. 8vo, 3 volumes, steel-engraved text illustrations; light stain on frontispiece and title, dark-violet morocco, gilt-tooled in a cathedral design, spine gilt, edges gilt; joints rubbed. — [Fore-edge Painting on a blank book]. 4to, dark-violet morocco, gilt-tooled border and central frame, spine gilt, edges gilt, a very-fine fore-edge painting of an English country house with ancillary structures and people heading out to hunt fox. — [Untitled commonplace book of transcribed poetry and engraved portraits of historical worthies, many hand-colored, with facsimile autographs]. 4to, ca. 1800 red straight-grain morocco, gilt roll-tooled border and frame with floral stamps at four corners, spine gilt, edges gilt, by Comte de Caumont, London, with his ticket; some images loose and laid in, bookplates of John Collins, Devizes; Samuel Muir; and an unidentified "C.S." of New York. — [Keepsake]. The Rainbow. 1848. Albany: A.L. Harrison, 1848. 8vo, engraved plates; some spotting, contemporary tan calf with ornaments inlaid in green and red calf with gilt decoration, spine gilt and inlaid similarly, edges gilt. — 35 photographic cartes-de-visite with portraits of Queen Victoria and her Prime Ministers, set into an album, 4to, green morocco, silver ruled borders, set into an Indian carved and inlaid boxwood binding, metal clasps and catches, by Asprey of London. — plus 5 other works in 7 volumes, in all 15 volumes.

Bindings in fine condition, book interiors have some spotting.
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