Cosway Bindings
First editions and rare books finely bound in the Cosway style.
(COSWAY STYLE BINDING) FRANKAU, Julia.
The Story of Emma, Lady Hamilton. 1911
£22,500
Limited to 250 copies signed by the author.
Folio. Finely bound by The Chelsea Bindery in full navy blue morocco, with a portrait of Horatio Nelson in the centre of the front board surrounded by a further 12... Read more
(COSWAY-STYLE BINDING) SLOANE, William Milligan.
Life of Napoleon Bonaparte. 1896
£18,500
First edition. William Milligan Sloane was professor of history at Princeton University, and editor of both the Political Science Quarterly and the American Historical Review.
4 volumes, large quarto (294 × 207 mm). Finely bound by The Chelsea Bindery in full burgundy morocco; spines gilt in compartments with Napoleonic devices between... Read more
(COSWAY BINDING) MOORE, Thomas.
Moore's Irish Melodies illustrated by D. Maclise, R.A. 1873
£10,000
Number 812 of the Cosway bindings according to the printed sheet signed by J. H. Stonehouse and C. B. Currie bound in, and therefore executed circa 1929. This is a genuine example of...
Octavo (163 × 121 mm). Fine Cosway binding by Rivière and Son for Henry Sotheran Ltd of green crushed morocco, spine gilt in compartments between five raised... Read more
(COSWAY STYLE BINDING) FORSTER, John.
The Life and Adventures of Oliver Goldsmith. A biography: in four books. 1848
£7,500
First edition, a handsome three-decker set in lavish Cosway-style bindings, housed in their original leather-entry slipcase, with portraits of Goldsmith, Johnson and Garrick. After...
3 volumes, octavo (203 × 129 mm). Full blue-green crushed morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe for Brentano's of New York, spines gilt in compartments between five... Read more
(COSWAY STYLE BINDING) POLLARD, A. F.
Henry VIII. 1902
£6,750
First edition. One of 1,150 numbered copies. The initial letters of each of the six chapters are designed after those from the original edition of Henry VIII's diatribe against Luther.
Quarto. Finely bound by The Chelsea Bindery in full red morocco, miniature portrait of Henry VIII set into the front board and a miniature portrait of Henry's second... Read more
(COSWAY STYLE BINDING) JACKSON, Catherine Charlotte, Lady.
The Old Régime, court, salons and theatres. 1880
£6,000
First edition. From the library of W. A. Foyle at Beeleigh Abbey, with his leather book label.
2 volumes, octavo (197 × 132 mm). Finely bound by Bayntun, mid twentieth century, in rich brown crushed morocco, spines gilt in compartments between five raised... Read more
(COSWAY STYLE BINDING) JACKSON, Catherine Charlotte, Lady.
The Court of the Tuileries from the Restoration to the Flight of Louis Philippe. 1883
£6,000
First edition. The popular historian Lady Jackson was widely read in standard authorities (and even unpublished papers), and her narrative style – bumptious and with "a great...
2 volumes, octavo (190 × 132 mm). Finely bound by Bayntun, mid twentieth century, in rich brown crushed morocco, spines gilt in compartments between five raised... Read more
(COSWAY-STYLE BINDING) GOLDSMITH, Oliver.
The Vicar of Wakefield. 1843
£3,000
"Cosway binding", so called after the famous Regency miniaturist Richard Cosway, was a style of binding executed by Rivière & Son for Sotheran's, with miniatures by Miss C. B....
Large octavo (208 × 144 mm). Bound by Rivière & Son in full red crushed morocco, spine gilt in compartments between raised bands with floral tools and dots,... Read more
(COSWAY STYLE BINDING) BROWNING, Elizabeth Barrett.
Sonnets from the Portuguese. 1915
£2,850
First Riccardi Press edition. Originally published in 1850.
Octavo (218 × 140 mm). Recent green morocco in the Cosway style by Bayntun-Riviere, floral pattern to spine compartments, boards, and turn-ins, double-line ruling... Read more
(COSWAY-STYLE BINDING) BURNEY, Fanny.
Evelina [c.1900]
£1,750
First published in 1778. A lovely example of a Riviere cosway-style binding.
Octavo (180 × 120 mm). Finely bound by Riviere and Son in blue crushed levant morocco, titles and decoration to spine, raised bands, front board set with a... Read more
