John Keats: His Life and Poetry, His Friends, Critics, and After-Fame. [Cosway-Style Binding].

John Keats: His Life and Poetry; ELABORATELY BOUND IN FULL CRUSHED LEVANT MOROCCO BY Bryan Frost and Company IN A COSWAY-STYLE BINDING

John Keats: His Life and Poetry, His Friends, Critics, and After-Fame. [Cosway-Style Binding].

COLVIN, Sidney. [John Keats].

Item Number: 138615

London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1920.

Finley bound example of Colvin’s appreciation of the great English Romantic poet. Octavo, bound in full crushed levant scarlet morocco by Bryan Frost and Company in an elaborate Cosway-style binding with a hand painted miniature ivorene portrait of Keats under glass to the front panel within an elaborate gilt botanical vignette, double gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, gilt-ruled turn-ins and inner dentelles, all edges gilt, watered silk endleaves, illustrated, tissue-guarded engraved frontispiece portrait of Keats. 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.

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