SYMONDS, John Addington. Wine, Women, and Song: Mediaeval Latin Students' Songs. (1884 - LIMITED TO 50 COPIES - IN A FINE COSWAY BINDING)

AUTHOR: SYMONDS, John Addington. 

TITLE: Wine, Women, and Song: Mediaeval Latin Students' Songs.

PUBLISHER: London: Chatto and Windus, 1884.

DESCRIPTION: LIMITED TO 50 COPIES IN A FINE COSWAY BINDING. 1 vol., 11-1/8" x 8-3/8", limited to 50 large paper numbered copies this being copy #36, a delightful emblematic Cosway binding with two very fine miniature paintings by Miss Currie. Bound in crushed red morocco, the covers paneled with in gilt pointelle and intersecting pairs of gilt fillets filled with an overall pattern of grape-cluster and grape-leaf tools, the front cover inset with a rectangular miniature painting after “Bacchus” by Guido Reni, the rear cover with a rectangular miniature painting of the “The Fruit Picker” after Maratta, the spine gilt in six compartments with matching grape-cluster and grape-leaf tools, gilt dentelles with matching pointelle, green silk moire doublures and endpapers, foot of front dentelle gilt-stamped "Bound by Riviere & Son from Designs by J. H. Stonehouse," foot of rear dentelle gilt-stamped "Miniatures C. B. Currie," top edge gilt, others uncut, housed in a full olive green morocco solinder slipcase.

CONDITION: Inner and outer hinges fine, head and foot of spine fine, internally clean and bright, silk moire starting to come away from the endpapers, slipcase sunned, otherwise VERY GOOD.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: The "Currie" refers to Miss C.B. Currie (Caroline Billin Curry, 1849-1940), a British book illuminator known for her miniature portraits on book covers and fore-edge paintings. She worked for the bookshop Henry Sotheran & Co. and is famous for her work with the binder Riviere & Son.