Lot 234
Costello (Louisa Stuart) The Rose Garden of Persia, attractively bound in deep turquoise morocco ornately tooled in gilt in the style of a Persian manuscript, 1845.
Hammer Price: £1,900
Description
Costello (Louisa Stuart) The Rose Garden of Persia, title and text with decorative borders printed in red, some leaves with chromolithographed Persian ornamentation in red, blue, green and gold, faint ink inscription to head of title, attractively bound in later deep turquoise morocco ornately tooled in gilt in the style of a Persian manuscript, by Rivière & Son, covers with central lozenge of turquoise and red highlighted decorations against a gilt ground surrounded by tendrils of flowers in gilt & red within a gilt foliate border of red morocco, spine in compartments with title in gilt and arabesque decorations in blue, red & gilt and five raised bands, pale blue silk moiré doublures and flyleaves, the first with gilt foliate red morocco border as on covers, signed at foot of front turn-in, t.e.g., others uncut, preserved in old silk-lined burgundy straight-grain morocco box with lid and catch, spine ruled and titled in gilt, rubbed, spine faded, 8vo (binding c.195 x 120mm.), 1845.
Description
Costello (Louisa Stuart) The Rose Garden of Persia, title and text with decorative borders printed in red, some leaves with chromolithographed Persian ornamentation in red, blue, green and gold, faint ink inscription to head of title, attractively bound in later deep turquoise morocco ornately tooled in gilt in the style of a Persian manuscript, by Rivière & Son, covers with central lozenge of turquoise and red highlighted decorations against a gilt ground surrounded by tendrils of flowers in gilt & red within a gilt foliate border of red morocco, spine in compartments with title in gilt and arabesque decorations in blue, red & gilt and five raised bands, pale blue silk moiré doublures and flyleaves, the first with gilt foliate red morocco border as on covers, signed at foot of front turn-in, t.e.g., others uncut, preserved in old silk-lined burgundy straight-grain morocco box with lid and catch, spine ruled and titled in gilt, rubbed, spine faded, 8vo (binding c.195 x 120mm.), 1845.