SANGORSKI & SUTCLIFFE, binders. WILLIAMSON, GEORGE CHARLES. The History of Portrait Miniatures. London: George Bell and Sons 1904. 2 vols., large 4to, 396 x 305 x 72 [vol.2: 61]mm. (15 5/8 x 12 1/16 x 2 7/8[vol.2: 2 5/16]in.), A COSWAY STYLE BINDING, navy blue crushed levant morocco, covers with double gilt fillet border around an inner border of ruled gilt dots, enclosing a repeated gilt inner border around a single gilt fillet panel incorporating red onlaid morocco gilt Tudor rose and gilt leaf spray corner ornaments, UPPER COVERS EACH SET WITH AN OVAL PORTRAIT MINIATURE BY ALYN WILLIAMS (Queen Alexandra, 75 x 62mm., 2 15/16 x 2 7/16in. and Mrs. Alyn Williams (?) dated 1897, 64 x 52mm., 2 1/2 x 2in., both signed), in metal frames within a couronne of red onlaid morocco gilt Tudor rose and gilt leaf spray; spines in six compartments with five raised bands, gilt lettered in two compartments, a decorated rule panel in the rest; board edges with single gilt fillet, turn-ins gilt ruled, blue-gray paper linings, t.e.g., others uncut, stamp-signed on upper turn-ins: "Bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe London". ALYN WILLIAMS'S COPY OF THE LIMITED EDITION, number 30 of 50 copies with 35 handcolored plates: printed by the Chiswick Press, 104 collotype plates.Provenance: "Alyn Williams, 24 South Audley Street, Grosvenor Square 1906", inscription on fly-leaf of vol. 1; Pierre S. duPont III. (2)

SANGORSKI & SUTCLIFFE, binders. WILLIAMSON, GEORGE CHARLES. The History of Portrait Miniatures. London: George Bell and Sons 1904. 2 vols., large 4to, 396 x 305 x 72 [vol.2: 61]mm. (15 5/8 x 12 1/16 x 2 7/8[vol.2: 2 5/16]in.), A COSWAY STYLE BINDING, navy blue crushed levant morocco, covers with double gilt fillet border around an inner border of ruled gilt dots, enclosing a repeated gilt inner border around a single gilt fillet panel incorporating red onlaid morocco gilt Tudor rose and gilt leaf spray corner ornaments, UPPER COVERS EACH SET WITH AN OVAL PORTRAIT MINIATURE BY ALYN WILLIAMS (Queen Alexandra, 75 x 62mm., 2 15/16 x 2 7/16in. and Mrs. Alyn Williams (?) dated 1897, 64 x 52mm., 2 1/2 x 2in., both signed), in metal frames within a couronne of red onlaid morocco gilt Tudor rose and gilt leaf spray; spines in six compartments with five raised bands, gilt lettered in two compartments, a decorated rule panel in the rest; board edges with single gilt fillet, turn-ins gilt ruled, blue-gray paper linings, t.e.g., others uncut, stamp-signed on upper turn-ins: "Bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe London". ALYN WILLIAMS'S COPY OF THE LIMITED EDITION, number 30 of 50 copies with 35 handcolored plates: printed by the Chiswick Press, 104 collotype plates. Provenance: "Alyn Williams, 24 South Audley Street, Grosvenor Square 1906", inscription on fly-leaf of vol. 1; Pierre S. duPont III. (2)

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SANGORSKI & SUTCLIFFE, binders. WILLIAMSON, GEORGE CHARLES. The History of Portrait Miniatures. London: George Bell and Sons 1904. 2 vols., large 4to, 396 x 305 x 72 [vol.2: 61]mm. (15 5/8 x 12 1/16 x 2 7/8[vol.2: 2 5/16]in.), A COSWAY STYLE BINDING, navy blue crushed levant morocco, covers with double gilt fillet border around an inner border of ruled gilt dots, enclosing a repeated gilt inner border around a single gilt fillet panel incorporating red onlaid morocco gilt Tudor rose and gilt leaf spray corner ornaments, UPPER COVERS EACH SET WITH AN OVAL PORTRAIT MINIATURE BY ALYN WILLIAMS (Queen Alexandra, 75 x 62mm., 2 15/16 x 2 7/16in. and Mrs. Alyn Williams (?) dated 1897, 64 x 52mm., 2 1/2 x 2in., both signed), in metal frames within a couronne of red onlaid morocco gilt Tudor rose and gilt leaf spray; spines in six compartments with five raised bands, gilt lettered in two compartments, a decorated rule panel in the rest; board edges with single gilt fillet, turn-ins gilt ruled, blue-gray paper linings, t.e.g., others uncut, stamp-signed on upper turn-ins: "Bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe London". ALYN WILLIAMS'S COPY OF THE LIMITED EDITION, number 30 of 50 copies with 35 handcolored plates: printed by the Chiswick Press, 104 collotype plates.

Provenance: "Alyn Williams, 24 South Audley Street, Grosvenor Square 1906", inscription on fly-leaf of vol. 1; Pierre S. duPont III. (2)