In Regency-Style Binding by John Mackenzie
One Hundred Fables, Original and Selected.
London: Geo: Lawford, Saville Passage. Printed by J. Johnson, 1833.
Price: $1,500.00
About the item
"Third edition" Engraved frontispiece, 183 wood-engraved vignettes and 100 wood-engraved initials after Northcote and William Harvey. 1 vols. Lg 8vo (10 1/8 x 6 1/2"). In Regency-Style Binding by John Mackenzie. Contemporary full brown morocco with elaborate giit-decorated covers incorporating gilt urns, fans, and clover leaves, richly gilt spines, with raised bands and black and red leather labels, a.e.g., each volume stamp-signed on the front pastedown, "Bound by J. Mackenzie Binder to the King" Ray 55.
Item #238562
Splendid set of Northcote in bindings by this London craftsman (cf. Spawn & Kinsella, TICKETED BOOKBINDERS FROM NINETEENTH-CENTURY BRITAIN, #s 485 & 486), who was active from 1803 -1833.
