RIVIERE & SON, binders. BOADEN, JAMES. An Inquiry into the Authenticity of various Pictures and Prints, which, from the decease of the poet to our own times have been offered to the public as Portraits of Shakespeare. London: Printed for Robert Triphook 1824. 8vo, 232 x 149 x 23mm. (9 1/8 x 5 13/16 x 7/8in.). A COSWAY BINDING, red crushed levant morocco gilt, covers with double gilt fillet, upper cover with a large rectangular panel of gilt line incorporating two sizes of a stylized four-petal flower tool, used as corner ornament and massed in four rectangles around the center, SET WITH FIVE OVAL PORTRAIT MINIATURES OF SHAKESPEARE from the book's illustrations (one in the center: 62 x 47mm., 2 1/2 x 1 7/8in.; four others: 47 x 38mm., 1 5/16 x 1 7/16in.), lower cover plain; spine in six compartments with five raised bands, a gilt panel in each compartment, gilt lettered in two compartments; board edges with single gilt fillet, turn-ins with gilt fillets, green silk linings, t.e.g., others uncut, stamp-signed by the binders on upper turn-in, silk parted at upper inner joint, morocco slipcase. FIRST EDITION, 5 engraved portraits.