PUBLISHER'S MOROCCO BINDINGS - JOHN LEIGHTON ETC. KEATS (JOHN) The Eve of Saint Agnes, ESTILL CO...

PUBLISHER'S MOROCCO BINDINGS - JOHN LEIGHTON ETC. KEATS (JOHN) The Eve of Saint Agnes, ESTILL COPY, [cf. McLean VBB, p.14, cloth version; McLean VBD, p. 146], New York, D. Appleton and Co., 1856--GRANT (HENRY) Marquita, FIRST AND LIMITED EDITION, LIMITED TO 117 COPIES mounted photogravure frontispiece, Emily Faithfull, Victoria Press, 1863--JERROLD (DOUGLAS WILLIAM) Mrs Caudle's Curtain Lectures, [McLean VBD, p.168], Bradbury, Evans, 1866--[CUMMINS (MARIA SUSANNA)] The Lamplighter... illustrated by John Gilbert, Routledge, 1854--WOOD (J.G.) Sketches and Anecdotes of Animal Life, engraved frontispiece and 6 engravings by H. Weir, Routledge, 1856--M[OFFATT] (A[NTONIA] S[TORY]) The Ore-Seeker: a Tale of the Hartz, illustrations throughout, Cambridge, Macmillan, 1860--SCOTT (WALTER) The Lady of the Lake, mounted albumen print to title, 13 albumen prints in the text [Gernsheim 196], A. W. Bennett, 1863--Dalziell's Illustrated Arabian Nights, illustrations by Millais, Tenniel, Pinwell and many others, engraved by the Brothers Dalziel [McLean VBD, p.132], Ward, Lock and Tyler, [1865]; and 21 others, all fine publisher's pictorial or decorative coloured morocco gilt, of which 14 signed by John Leighton, 2 signed by Henry Noel Humphreys, 3 with Leighton & Sons binder's ticket, 5 signed by William Henry Rogers, 8vo or small 4to (29) Footnotes: FINE COPIES OF PUBLISHER'S DECORATIVE MOROCCO BINDINGS DESIGNED BY JOHN LEIGHTON, AND OTHERS OF THE 1850s AND 1860s. 'In any consideration of individual designers of book covers in the period of up to 1880 the name of John Leighton must be pre-eminent... he maintained a high standard in almost every cover he designed... his approach was ''Gothic' in the way Victorians interpreted the word: an amalgam of renaissance, ecclesiastical and armorial elements...' (Douglas Ball, Victorian Publishers' Bindings, 1985, pp.74-80). 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