My Life during the French Revolution

Lot 73
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Lot 73 | My Life during the French Revolution
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My Life during the French Revolution

Grace Elliott, 1859

ELLIOTT, Grace Dalrymple (c.1754-1823). My Life During the French Revolution. London: Richard Bentley, 1859.



Certified Cosway binding, with portrait miniatures by C.B. Currie depicting King Louis XVI, Marie Antoinette, and their family. With certificate bound in: “This is No. 900 of the Cosway Bindings invented by J.H. Stonehouse with Miniatures on Ivory by Miss Currie,” signed by both the inventor and the artist.



Octavo (219 x 139mm). Frontispiece portrait. 28-pp publishers’ ads at end. Full dark sienna crushed levant morocco by Riviere & Son, with two hand-painted portrait miniatures on ivory inset in the upper cover bordered with gilt-rules within a curved gilt panel, both covers with gilt rules, borders, and corner-pieces, spine gilt in six compartments with raised bands, double gilt-rule on board edges, turn-ins gilt, moiré silk doublures, top edge gilt, stamp-signed by the binders on upper turn-in and stamped “Cosway Binding / Invented by J.H. Stonehouse” on the fore-edge boards (touch of discoloration at cover edges, neat repair to upper joint). Velvet-lined clamshell box. Provenance: Swann Galleries, 17 June 2010, lot 333.





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This lot contains ivory material and is offered pursuant to a New York State Department of Environmental Conservation license, a copy of which will be provided to the buyer. Prospective purchasers are advised that several countries prohibit the importation of property containing materials from endangered species, including but not limited to coral, ivory and tortoiseshell. Accordingly, prospective purchasers should familiarize themselves with relevant customs regulations prior to bidding if they intend to import this lot into another country.

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