WILDE, Oscar.
The Poetical Works of Oscar Wilde.
The Poetical Works of Oscar Wilde; elaborately bound in full crushed levant morocco by Bayntun-Riviere in a Cosway-style binding
Portland, Maine: Thomas B. Mosher, 1908.
$4,800.00
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Item Number: RRB-137237
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First Mosher edition of Wilde's collected poetical works, one of 750 copies printed on Van Gelder hand-made paper. Octavo, elaborately bound in full crushed levant morocco by Bayntun-Riviere in a Cosway-style binding with a hand painted miniature ivorene portrait of Wilde under glass to the front panel within an elaborate gilt botanical vignette gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, gilt ruling to the front and rear panel, gilt-ruled turn-ins and inner dentelles, all edges gilt, watered silk endleaves, illustrated, tissue-guarded engraved frontispiece portrait of Wilde. In fine condition.
Cosway bindings (named for renowned 19th-century English miniaturist Richard Cosway) were popularized, if not invented, in the early 1900s by the renowned London bookselling firm of Henry Sotheran. The earliest Cosway bindings were created by Miss C.B. Currie who faithfully imitated Cosway's detailed watercolor style of portraiture from designs by J.H. Stonehouse, Sotheran’s manager. These delicate miniature paintings, often on ivory, were set into the covers or doublures of richly-tooled bindings and protected by a thin pane of glass.
The Poetical Works of Oscar Wilde.
$4,800.00
Out of Stock
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