COSWAY BINDING] CAMPAN, JEANNE LOUISE HENRIETTE. Memoirs of the Court of Marie Antoinette . London: H.S. Nicholls, 1885. One of 500 copies. Two volumes, royal blue levant morocco signed by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, a Cosway-style binding executed for the J.W. Robinson Company, covers with three fillets and a dotted line enclosing a large panel, the royal monogram of Marie Antoinette in each corner, a seme of gilt-stamped fleurs-de-lys and gilt dots overall, with an oval gilt stamp of a MA monogram surrmounted by a crown and wreathed in laurel; spines in six compartments, the upper cover of the first volume with a pink doublure surrounded by broad gilt dentelles, recessed miniature of Marie Antoinette glazed and framed at the center, surrounded with a seme with two small flower tools, pink silk linings throughout, all edges gilt, lightly gauffered, housed on a felt-lined folding case. 8 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches (22 x 14 cm); lxxii, 284 pp.; 407 pp. Fine condition, with the Estelle Doheny bookplates. Sold in the Doheny Sale, Christie's, Camarillo California, February 2, 1988, . C From the Collection of Walter Ward Jr.
COSWAY BINDING] CAMPAN, JEANNE LOUISE HENRIETTE. Memoirs of the Court of Marie Antoinette . London: H.S. Nicholls, 1885. One of 500 copies. Two volumes, royal blue levant morocco signed by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, a Cosway-style binding executed for the J.W. Robinson Company, covers with three fillets and a dotted line enclosing a large panel, the royal monogram of Marie Antoinette in each corner, a seme of gilt-stamped fleurs-de-lys and gilt dots overall, with an oval gilt stamp of a MA monogram surrmounted by a crown and wreathed in laurel; spines in six compartments, the upper cover of the first volume with a pink doublure surrounded by broad gilt dentelles, recessed miniature of Marie Antoinette glazed and framed at the center, surrounded with a seme with two small flower tools, pink silk linings throughout, all edges gilt, lightly gauffered, housed on a felt-lined folding case. 8 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches (22 x 14 cm); lxxii, 284 pp.; 407 pp. Fine condition, with the Estelle Doheny bookplates. Sold in the Doheny Sale, Christie's, Camarillo California, February 2, 1988, . C From the Collection of Walter Ward Jr.
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