Richard Cosway

London : George Bell and Sons, 1905. Octavo, finely bound in full polished calf, spine in compartments with raised bands, lettered and tooled in gilt, light scuffing, gilt dentelles, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers, the upper panel from the original cloth binding laid on to front pastedown and the spine from original binding laid on to rear pastedown, photogravure frontispiece, pp. xiii; [blank]; 147, black and white plates, foxing to fore edge and preliminaries, a very good copy.

A finely bound copy on this major monograph on the important English portrait miniaturist from the Georgian period. Cosway’s name would later be adopted for the style of binding which includes the inset of a portrait miniature into the covers.