CHIVERS VELLUCENT BINDING - JESSIE M. KING [LODGE (THOMAS)] Rosalynde, NUMBER 3 OF 30 COPIES ON ...

CHIVERS VELLUCENT BINDING - JESSIE M. KING [LODGE (THOMAS)] Rosalynde, NUMBER 3 OF 30 COPIES ON JAPANESE VELLUM, signed by the illustrator, 10 plates by Edmund Sullivan, contemporary vellucent vellum by Chivers of Bath (gilt-stamped inside lower cover), with pictorial upper cover, and decorations on lower cover and spine by Jessie M. King, with some gilt ornamentation, and inlaid mother of pearl on upper cover, gilt panel to inside covers, t.e.g., 8vo, George Newnes, 1902 Footnotes: 'The most beautiful and certainly the most ornate of the bindings [designed by J.M. King] was done by Chivers in 1902 in what the firm called their Vellucent binding, for a copy of The Story of Rosalynde' (Colin White, The Enchanted World of Jessie M. King, 1976). The binding is illustrated in S.T. Prideaux, Modern Book-Bindings, 1906. This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: • • Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing