Richard Cosway R.A.

George C. Williamson
London: George Bell and Sons, 1905

Revised and re-written study of the portrait miniaturist Richard Cosway of a work first published in 1896.

Lovely decorative binding designed by ‘G.M.W.’ incorporating a Cosway-style miniature.

Richard Cosway, long after his death, was the inspiration for the ‘Cosway Binding’ that utilised a finely painted miniature inlaid into a fine leather binding.

Hardback. Publisher’s cloth with gilt title and decoration to spine and front board, silvered miniature decoration to front; page-block with top edge gilt. pp. xiii, [1], 147, plus b/w plates. Size: 9 x 6.5 inches approx. (230mm x 165mm).

Binding showing only light wear and rubbing to extremities. Offsetting to endpapers; spotting to page edges; pages dusty and with occasional foxing throughout but generally clean.

Overall, light wear but otherwise in nice, clean condition – a very attractive copy

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