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COBDEN-SANDERSON, THOMAS JAMES binder . H.C. BEECHING; J.W. MACKAIL; J.B. NICHOLS. Love's Looking Glass: a volume of Poems. London: Percival 1891. 8vo, binding size: 167 x 128 x 17 mm. (6 9/16 x 5 x 5/8 in.), blue-green crushed morocco gilt, covers framed with a radiating leafy vine with heart-shaped leaves (Tidcombe 5d and 5f) within a double gilt rule border and enclosing a central panel semé with small gilt heart tools (Tidcombe 5d), spine in six gilt-panelled compartments, the second gilt-lettered, the remainder with the same small heart tools, board edges gilt-ruled, turn-ins with repeated impression of the heart tools on short stems, massed gilt dots at corners, edges gilt and gauffred along board edges with small squares (Tidcombe 5q), stamp-signed on lower turn-in "18 C.S 91", joints and corners abraded with some leather loss, board edges scuffed, inner hinges split, spine faded to olive-green . FIRST EDITION. Tidcombe 150 ("Not located"), illustrated from the pattern book sketches. One of three Cobden-Sanderson bindings tooled almost exclusively with hearts (the others, Tidcombe 68 and 86, were designed in 1886 and 1889).