$11,590
London: Longman, Green, Longman & Roberts, 1861. 4to, bound in an exquisite jewelled binding set with 118 jewels, including 16 amethysts, 58 garnets, 30 seed pearls, 12 turquoises, one pink stone, one blue-green stone, and mother-of-pearl, by Sangorski and Sutcliffe, brown morocco, upper board with large sunken floral and pointille panel centering a blue-green morocco onlaid arabesque design embellished with garnets and seed pearls in a heart-shaped pattern, an intertwined green onlaid strapwork border with arabesque cornerpieces embellished with amethysts, surrounded in full gilt pointille and onlaid border; the lower board with sunken foliate panel embellished with garnets and turquoise with interwoven green and red strapwork extending into gilt and color acanthus leaves against an elaborately gilt pointille background with floral cornerpieces; morocco doublures with inset green panels, bordered in gilt pointille and 26 mother-of-pearl hearts, front doublure in onlaid ivory morocco fountain with gilt sprays; green morocco endpapers with interwoven gilt strapwork border surrounding a repeating geometric and foliate pattern; edges gilt and gauffered with red and green floral accents; housed in full morocco velvet and silk-lined folding case with gilt-lettered spine (front board folding case detached but present).
Auctioneer:
Leslie Hindman Auctioneers
Date:
2010-11-18
