May 15, 2025 - Sale 2704

Sale 2704 - Lot 39

Price Realized: $ 688
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 2,000
Sichel, Walter (1855-1933)
Emma Lady Hamilton from New and Original Sources and Documents, in a Cosway-style Binding.

London: Archibald Constable & Co. Ltd., 1905.

Large octavo; illustrated; bound in full russet morocco for Charles Sawyer Ltd., London; with the binder's cipher with two interlocking S's inside back board; large miniature portrait of Lady Hamilton likely after George Romney's 1784 portrait, "The Spinstress"; under glass inside the front board; inside boards set in panels of contrasting blue morocco; boards rounded and tooled ornately in gilt; aeg., rebacked, 8¼ x 5½ in.

[Together with] Memoirs of Lady Hamilton; with Illustrative Anecdotes, London: Printed for Henry Colburn, 1815, octavo, two copies in boards: first and second editions. (3)