[COSWAY BINDING]. STRACHEY, LYTTON. Elizabeth and Essex, A Tragic History. London, 1928. 8vo, contemporary red morocco double gilt fillet around gilt border of grapes and leaves surrounding A LARGE CENTRAL PORTRAIT MINIATURE OF QUEEN ELIZABETH ON UPPER COVER AND OF ESSEX ON LOWER COVER, spine in six compartments, gilt lettered in two, gilt grapes and leaves in others, g.e.; elaborate blue watered silk doublures and free endpapers, stamp-signed on upper turn-in: "Bound by Riviere & Son," lower doublure stamp-signed "Miniatures by C.B. Currie," silk on upper doublure frayed; slipcase. Number 941 "of the Cosway Bindings invented by J.H. Stonehouse, with Miniatures by Miss Currie. Signed" "J.H. Stonehouse" Inventor and "C.B. Currie" Artist.