May 23, 2024 - Sale 2670

Sale 2670 - Lot 62

Unsold
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
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, 8 1/4 x 5 1/2 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)