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Illustrated Catalogue of Very Beautiful Examples of the Cosway Bindings, With Miniatures on Ivory...
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Illustrated Catalogue of Very Beautiful Examples of the Cosway Bindings, With Miniatures on Ivory by the Famous Copyist Miss Currie

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Illustrated Catalogue of Very Beautiful Examples of the Cosway Bindings, With Miniatures on Ivory by the Famous Copyist Miss Currie

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Marie Antoinette
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Marie Antoinette

by NOLHAC, Pierre de; COSWAY-STYLE BINDING; CHIVERS, Cedric, binder

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London: Arthur L. Humphreys, 1905. A Most Unusual Cosway-Style Binding by Cedric Chivers of Bath NOLHAC, Pierre de. COSWAY-STYLE BINDING. CHIVERS, Cedric, binder. Marie Antoinette. London: Arthur L. Humphreys, 1905. Reprinted from the Illustrated Edition of Marie Antoinette the Queen by permission of Messrs Goupil & Company. Octavo (8 1/8 x 5 3/4 inches; 208 x 146 mm.). [viii], 268 pp. Title-page printed in red & black. A most unusual Cosway-Style Binding ca. 1920 by Cedric Chivers for the London Bookseller Chas. J. Sawyer, stamp signed in gilt on rear turn-in. Full vellum over beveled boards, front cover richly decorated with a swirling floral gilt design with the flowers hand painted in red and green (colors faded). In the lower right-hand corner is an oval inlay of black morocco with the monogram of Marie Antoinette in gilt surrounded by leaves and the Queen's crown in gilt. At the top left-hand corner is a very fine hand-painted portrait miniature of Marie Antoinette, set under glass within a… Read More
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Modern Comedy, A.
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Modern Comedy, A.

by FORE-EDGE PAINTING; MISS C.B. CURRIE; RIVIÈRE & SON, binders; GALSWORTHY, John

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London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1929. A Wonderful Example of Miss Currie's Work FORE-EDGE PAINTING. MISS C.B. CURRIE, artist. RIVIÈRE & SON, binders. GALSWORTHY, John. A Modern Comedy. London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1929. With a very fine fore-edge painting by Miss C.B. Currie of Mapledurham, Oxfordshire (from The Forsyte Saga). Inserted limitation leaf at front "This is No. 160 of the Books/with Fore-edge Paintings/by/Miss Currie/The Painting under the gold/is a view of/Mapledurham./Signed/ C.B. Currie" First edition. Octavo (7 1/8 x 4 5/8 inches; 180 x 117 mm.). [ii, Miss Currie signed limitation, verso blank], [i]-xxvii, [i, blank], [1]-1088 pp. Inserted folded "Forsyte Family Tree" (small neat repair to one fold). Bound ca. 1930 by Rivière & Son for Henry Sotheran. Full dark blue straight-grain morocco, covers elaborately tooled in gilt and blind, spine with five raised bands, decoratively tooled in gilt and blind, and lettered in gilt in compartments. Gilt -ruled board edges, gilt… Read More
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Forsyte Saga, The
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Forsyte Saga, The

by FORE-EDGE PAINTING; MISS C.B. CURRIE; RIVIÈRE & SON, binders; GALSWORTHY, John

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London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1933. A Wonderful Example of Miss Currie's Work FORE-EDGE PAINTING. MISS C.B. CURRIE, artist. RIVIÈRE & SON, binders. GALSWORTHY, John. The Forsyte Saga. London: William Heinemann Ltd., [1933]. With a very fine fore-edge painting by Miss C.B. Currie of Richmond Hill from The Forsyte Saga. Inserted limitation leaf at front "This is No. 172 of the Books/with Fore-edge Paintings/by/Miss Currie/The Painting under the gold/is a view from/Richmond Hill./Signed/ C.B. Currie". Later printing. Octavo (7 1/8 x 4 5/8 inches; 180 x 117 mm.). [ii, Miss Currie signed limitation, verso blank], [i]-xvi, [1]-1104 pp. Including folded "Forsyte Family Tree". Bound ca. 1933 by Rivière & Son for Henry Sotheran. Full dark blue straight-grain morocco, covers elaborately bordered in gilt and blind enclosing a diamond-shaped gilt lozenge, spine with five raised bands, decoratively tooled in gilt and blind, and lettered in gilt in compartments. Gilt -ruled board edges, gilt decorated… Read More
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Catalogue Raisonne of the Engraved Works of Richard Cosway, R. A. [Catalogue Raisonne, Catalog Raisonné, Complete Works, Life and Work, Raisonnee]

by Daniell, Frederick B. ; Philip Currie; Richard Cosway

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Fredk B. Daniell. As New. 1890. HARDCOVER. *** FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request *** - *** IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - AS NEW, THE TEXT BLOCK IS PRISTINE, CLEAN, UNMARKED, AND IN EXCELLENT CONDITION - - HARDCOVER. [Catalogue Raisonne, Catalog Raisonné, Complete Works, Life and Work, Raisonnee]
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Catalogue Raisonne of the Engraved Works of Richard Cosway, R. A. [Catalogue Raisonne, Catalog Raisonné, Complete Works, Life and Work, Raisonnee]

by Daniell, Frederick B. ; Philip Currie; Richard Cosway

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Fredk B. Daniell. As New. 1890. HARDCOVER. *** FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request *** - *** IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - AS NEW, THE TEXT BLOCK IS PRISTINE, CLEAN, UNMARKED, AND IN EXCELLENT CONDITION - - HARDCOVER. [Catalogue Raisonne, Catalog Raisonné, Complete Works, Life and Work, Raisonnee] -- with a bonus offer-- - May be EITHER: out of print (OOP) and extremely rare in this pristine condition; signed by author or contributor; or a first or special edition; (inquire for details) .
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Life of Robert Burns
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Life of Robert Burns

by COSWAY-STYLE BINDING; BAYNTUN RIVIÈRE, binders; BURNS, Robert; LOCKHART, J.G.

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Edinburgh and London: Constable and Co.,and Hurst, Chace and Co., 1828. A Fine Cosway-Style Binding Extra-Illustrated by the Insertion of Twenty-One Plates [COSWAY-STYLE BINDING]. BAYNTUN RIVIÈRE, binders. BURNS, Robert. LOCKHART, J.G. Life of Robert Burns. Edinburgh: Constable and Co., and London: Hurst, Chance, and Co., 1828. First edition. Octavo (8 1/2 x 5 1/4 inches; 215 x 133 mm.). viii, 446p. Illustrated with vignette engraving as head piece on first text page, extra illustrated with twenty-one plates of portraits and views, of which five are hand colored. A fine 'Extra-Illustrated' Cosway-Style binding ca. 1940 by Bayntun Rivière (stamp-signed in gilt on front turn-in). Full brown crushed levant morocco, both covers with an elaborate 'thistle' design in gilt, the upper cover with a fine oval portrait miniature set under glass of a young Robert Burns. Spine with five raised bands decoratively tooled and lettered in gilt and with small green inlays in the thistles. Decorative gilt… Read More
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Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith, The
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Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith, The

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London: FORE-EDGE PAINTING. MISS C.B. CURRIE, artist. RIVIÈRE & SON, binders. GOLDSMITH, Oliver. The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith. With Biographical Introduction by Professor Masson. London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1902Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1902. A Splendid Example of Miss Currie's Work FORE-EDGE PAINTING. MISS C.B. CURRIE, artist. RIVIÈRE & SON, binders. GOLDSMITH, Oliver. The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith. With Biographical Introduction by Professor Masson. London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1902. The Globe Edition. With a very fine fore-edge painting by Miss C.B. Currie of Lucan House, Dublin. Inserted limitation leaf at front "This is No. 157 of the Books/with Fore-edge Paintings/by/Miss Currie/The Painting under the gold/is a view of/Lucan-House, Dublin./Signed/ C.B. Currie" Octavo (7 1/8 x 4 3/4 inches; 180 x 121 mm.). [ii, Miss Currie signed limitation, verso blank], [i-v], vi-lx, [ii], [1]-695, [1] pp. Inserted photogravure portrait frontispiece of "Mr.… Read More
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Evenings at Haddon Hall
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Evenings at Haddon Hall

by FORE-EDGE PAINTING; BARONESS DE CALABRELLA; MISS C.B. CURRIE; RIVIÈRE & SON, binders; BALL, Catherine

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London: Henry G. Bohn, 1848. The Dignity and Grandeur of Haddon Hall" A Remarkably Fine and Very Early Fore-Edge Painting by Miss C.B. Currie FORE-EDGE PAINTING. MISS C.B. CURRIE, artist. RIVIÈRE & SON, binders. BALL, Catherine aka, BARONESS DE CALABRELLA. Evenings at Haddon Hall, A Series of Romantic Tales of the Olden Time. Edited by The Baronesss De Calabrella. With illustrations from designs by George Cattermole. London: Henry G. Bohn, 1848. With a very fine fore-edge painting by Miss C.B. Currie showing the dignity and grandeur of Haddon Hall... flanked by towering trees and beautiful greensward. Horses are being led to their stable by a groom and a mounted horseman can be seen in the middle distance talking to two young ladies." First edition. Octavo (8 5/8 x 5 5/8 inches; 219 x 143 mm.). [viii], [1]-453, [1, blank] pp. Engraved frontispiece, engraved vignette title-page and twenty-four fine engraved plated by George Cattermole. Bound ca. 1910 by Rivière & Son in full maroon… Read More
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Vanity Fair
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Vanity Fair

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London: Bradbury and Evans, 1848. First Edition of Vanity Fair In a Fine Sangorski & Sutcliffe Cosway-Style Binding [COSWAY-STYLE BINDING]. [SANGORSKI & SUTCLIFFE]. THACKERAY, William Makepeace. Vanity Fair. A Novel Without A Hero. With Illustrations On Steel and Wood By the Author. London: Bradbury and Evans, 1848. First edition, first issue, with the suppressed woodcut of the Marquis of Steyne on page 336, with "Mr. Pitt" for "Sir Pitt" on page 453, and the rustic heading on page one. Expert paper repair to pages [xv] and xvi. Plates generally a little toned, still a near fine and very desirable copy of this classic. Octavo (8 5/16 x 5 1/8 inches; 210 x 130 mm.). xvi, 624 pp. Thirty-eight black and white steel engraved plates with tissue guards and one hundred and fifty woodcuts in the text by Thackeray. Extra-illustrated by Joseph Clayton Clarke with twelve original pen and ink drawings including a pen & ink and pastel frontispiece, with tissue guard. Bound c. 1920 by [Sangorski & Sutcliffe]… Read More
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Poems of Lord Byron

Poems of Lord Byron

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1923. BYRON. Poems of Lord Byron. London: Chatto and Windus, 1923. Octavo, 20th-century full blue morocco, raised bands, elaborately gilt-decorated spine and boards with Cosway-style portrait on front board, watered silk endpapers, all edges gilt. $10000.Handsomely printed edition of Byron's poems, beautifully bound by Asprey in a Cosway-style binding with a portrait of Byron inset on the front board. Cosway bindings (named in 1909 for renowned 19th-century English miniaturist Richard Cosway) were the brainchild of John Harrison Stonehouse, managing director of London booksellers Henry Sotheran & Company, who in 1902 struck on the idea of embedding miniature paintings in the covers of richly-tooled bindings. He engaged the famous Rivière bindery to execute his idea in accordance with his own designs. Rivière brought into its employ Miss C.B. Currie with instructions to faithfully imitate Richard Cosway's detailed watercolor style of miniature painting. These delicate and… Read More
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Napoleon and The Fair Sex
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Napoleon and The Fair Sex

by (Cosway Binding) Masson, Frédéric

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London: William Heinemann, 1896. Second Edition. 320pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Bound in full blue morocco with 2 Miss Currie Cosway style miniatures, "bound by Riviere & Son from Designs by J.H. Stonehouse". Neatly recased. Open-faced slipcase. Second Edition. 320pp. 1 vols. 8vo. WITH 2 MISS CURRIE MINIATURES.
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Complete Angler; or, Contemplative Man's Recreation: The
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Complete Angler; or, Contemplative Man's Recreation: The

by COSWAY BINDING; RIVIÈRE & SON, binders; WALTON, Izaac

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London: Samuel Bagster, 1815. A Superb Early Twentieth Century 'Cosway' Binding by Rivière & Son [COSWAY BINDING]. RIVIÈRE & SON, binders. WALTON, Izaac. COTTON, Charles. The Complete Angler; or, Contemplative Man's Recreation: Being a Discourse on Rivers, Fish-Ponds, and Fishing. In two parts. London: Samuel Bagster, 1815. Second Bagster Edition. Octavo (8 13/16 x 5 5/8 inches; 224 x 143 mm.). [xi] 12-514 (including seventeen-page appendix), [20 index] pp. Fifteen full-page plates; eight after Wale, two music plates, two of fishing tackle, the cartouche of the title-page of the 1653 first edition on half-title, all engraved by Philip Audinet; a portrait of Walton after Huysmans engraved by C. Hayter; a portrait of Cotton after Lely engraved by J. Linnell. In addition there are seventeen silver engravings of fish; a map of the River Lea and one of the River Dove; a facsimile of Walton's autograph and one of Cotton's; and seven engravings in the text, all by Audinet. There are six engravings in… Read More
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Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley, The
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Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley, The

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London: Reeves & Turner, 1886. A Superb Early Sangorski & Sutcliffe Cosway-Style Binding COSWAY-STYLE BINDING. SANGORSKI & SUTCLIFFE, binders. SHELLEY, Percy Bysshe. The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley. Given from his own editions and other authentic sources. Collated with many manuscripts and with all editions of authority together with his prefaces and notes his poetical translations and fragments and an appendix of Juvenalia. Edited by H. Buxton Forman. Second edition with the notes of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. In two volumes. London: Reeves & Turner, 1886. Two octavo volumes (7 1/4 x 4 11/16 inches; 184 x 119 mm.). 572; 580 pp. A spectacular ca. 1920 Cosway-Style binding by Sangorski & Sutcliffe for the J.L. Hudson Company (stamp-signed in gilt on rear turn-in). Full red crushed levant morocco over beveled boards, covers lavishly gilt in the Art Nouveau style, with inlaid green and light brown morocco inlays. The first volume with a central green morocco medallion with Percy Byshhe… Read More
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Plocacosmos: or the Whole Art of Hair Dressing; wherein is contained, ample rules for the young...
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Plocacosmos: or the Whole Art of Hair Dressing; wherein is contained, ample rules for the young artizan, more particularly for ladies women, valets, etc. as well as directions for persons to dress their own hair

by (Cosway Binding) Stewart, James

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London: for the Author No. 12, Old Broad-Street; and sold by all the booksellers in town and country, 1782. First edition. Engraved frontispiece (printed in sepia) of "Shakespeare's Seven Ages of Man" and 10 engraved plates. [vi], 435 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Full crimson morocco extra gilt, upper board tooled in gilt spiderweb about a large miniature by Miss C.B. Currie, gilt turn-ins, silk endsheets, t.e.g., front pastedown stamped in gilt "Bound by Riviere & Son from Designs by J. H. Stonehouse" and at back "Miniature C.B. Currie". Finely rebacked with spine laid down. In red cloth slipcase. First edition. Engraved frontispiece (printed in sepia) of "Shakespeare's Seven Ages of Man" and 10 engraved plates. [vi], 435 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. With a Miniature by Miss Currie. First edition of this remarkable study of women's hairdressing in the Georgian age. The work treats hair and its growth, the utensils used to dress it, methods for constructing head dresses using false hair and stiffeners, and for applying… Read More
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Journal of my Life During the French Revolution
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Journal of my Life During the French Revolution: By Grace Dalrymple Elliott.

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London: Richard Bentley, 1859. COSWAY BINDING; RIVIÈRE & SON|CURRIE, Miss C.B.. CURRIE, Miss C.B., [artist]. RIVIÈRE & SON, [binder]. Journal of my Life During the French Revolution.. By Grace Dalrymple Elliott. London: Richard Bentley, 1859. Full Description: [COSWAY BINDING]. CURRIE, Miss C.B., [artist]. RIVIÈRE & SON, [binder]. Journal of my Life During the French Revolution. By Grace Dalrymple Elliott. London: Richard Bentley, 1859. Octavo (8 5/8 x 5 3/8 inches; 218 x 137 mm). [2, colophon], [i]-206, [1, printer's imprint], [1, blank], [28, publisher's ads] pp. With half-title. With frontispiece portrait and one other engraved plate. All pages within a printed red border. Bound by Rivière & Son in full red morocco ornately tooled in gilt. Font cover with two oval miniature paintings on ivory under glass by Miss C.B. Currie. Paintings are surrounded by gilt tooling. Boards ruled and tooled in gilt, with floral corner devices. Spine decoratively gilt-tooled in compartments, and lettered in… Read More
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The Book of Costume: or, Annals of Fashion
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The Book of Costume: or, Annals of Fashion

by COSWAY BINDING; RIVIÈRE & SON, binders; MISS C.B. CURRIE, artist; ANONYMOUS

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London: Henry Colburn, 1847. An Exceptionally Fine Cosway Binding With a Superb Hand Painted Portrait Miniature of Queen Elizabeth I By Miss C.B. Currie [COSWAY BINDING]. [ANONYMOUS]. The Book of Costume: or, Annals of Fashion, From the Earliest Period to the Present Time. By a Lady of Rank. Illustrated with upwards of 200 engravings on wood by the most eminent artists. London: Henry Colburn, 1847. New edition 1847 stated on title page (first printed the previous year in 1846). Large octavo (9 3/8 x 5 3/4 inches; 238 x 146 mm.). Colored lithograph frontispiece, xii, [1]-482 pp. Handsomely bound in full blue crushed levant morocco ca. 1929 by Rivière and Sons, binders stamp on the lower front turn-in, and that of Mrs. C.B. Currie on the rear turn-in. Front cover elaborately decorated in gilt with two sunken panels above and below a large oval miniature of Queen Elizabeth I, hand painted by Miss C.B. Currie, inset under slightly convex glass. Rear cover with a simple design of gilt rules, rolls… Read More
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Life and Times of Catherine de' Medici, The
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Life and Times of Catherine de' Medici, The

by COSWAY BINDING; RIVIÈRE & SON, binders; [MISS C.B. CURRIE], miniaturist; WATSON, Francis

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London: Hutchinson & Co, [1934]. Happiness is the one Thing we Queens can never have." (Catherine de' Medici) A Superb Cosway Binding with a Fine Portrait by Miss C.B. Currie of Catherine de' Medici COSWAY BINDING. RIVIÈRE & SON, binders. [MISS C.B. CURRIE], miniaturist. WATSON, Francis. The Life and Times of Catherine de' Medici. With 16 Illustrations. London: Hutchinson & Co, [1934]. First edition. Octavo (8 7/8 x 5 3/4 inches; 226 x 146 mm.). [1]-287, [1, blank] pp. Photogravure frontispiece with original tissue guard and fifteen photogravure plates. Limitation statement at front "This is No. 912 of the Cosway Bindings invented by J. H. Stonehouse, with Miniatures on Ivory by Miss Currie. Signed (in blue & black ink) 'J.H. Stonehouse' Inventor. 'C.B. Currie' Artist." Bound by Rivière & Son in full maroon crushed levant morocco. Covers with gilt double-rule border, the front cover set with superb large oval portrait miniature set under glass (measuring 4 3/4 x 3 3/4 inches; 121 x 95 mm.) of… Read More
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