RIVIERE & SON, binders. WILLIAMSON, GEORGE CHARLES. Andrew & Nathaniel Plimer. Miniature Painters. Their Lives and their Works. London: George Bell & Sons 1903. 4to, 320 x 245 x 54mm. (12 5/8 x 9 5/8 x 2 1/16in.), A COSWAY BINDING, green crushed levant morocco, covers with double gilt fillet borders forming an interwoven strapwork design enclosing panels filled and forming an overall pattern of densely tooled gilt leaf sprays and flowers, SET WITH TEN FINE OVAL PORTRAIT MINIATURES OF LADIES AFTER THE PLIMERS PROBABLY BY MISS C.B. CURRIE (the two at centers: 73 x 60mm., 2 7/8 x 2 5/16in., the rest: 62 x 48mm., 2 7/16 x 1 7/8in.); spine in six compartments with five raised bands, gilt lettered in two compartments, a repeated panel of gilt leaf spray and flowers in the rest; board edges with single gilt fillet, turn-ins with triple gilt fillet and triple flower corner ornament, pauple paper linings, t.e.g., others uncut, stamp-signed at extreme lower right of upper turn-in: "Bound by Riviere & Son", very slight discoloration to the peak of the spine bands, maroon morocco pull-off case (broken). Printed by Chiswick Press, illustrated. (duPont)

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RIVIERE & SON, binders. WILLIAMSON, GEORGE CHARLES. Andrew & Nathaniel Plimer. Miniature Painters. Their Lives and their Works. London: George Bell & Sons 1903. 4to, 320 x 245 x 54mm. (12 5/8 x 9 5/8 x 2 1/16in.), A COSWAY BINDING, green crushed levant morocco, covers with double gilt fillet borders forming an interwoven strapwork design enclosing panels filled and forming an overall pattern of densely tooled gilt leaf sprays and flowers, SET WITH TEN FINE OVAL PORTRAIT MINIATURES OF LADIES AFTER THE PLIMERS PROBABLY BY MISS C.B. CURRIE (the two at centers: 73 x 60mm., 2 7/8 x 2 5/16in., the rest: 62 x 48mm., 2 7/16 x 1 7/8in.); spine in six compartments with five raised bands, gilt lettered in two compartments, a repeated panel of gilt leaf spray and flowers in the rest; board edges with single gilt fillet, turn-ins with triple gilt fillet and triple flower corner ornament, pauple paper linings, t.e.g., others uncut, stamp-signed at extreme lower right of upper turn-in: "Bound by Riviere & Son", very slight discoloration to the peak of the spine bands, maroon morocco pull-off case (broken). Printed by Chiswick Press, illustrated. (duPont)