More Cosways from an Ayrshire Country House
A group of Cosway-style bindings by Rivière were sold as part of the library at a July 21 country house sale held by Lyon & Turnbull at Jordanstone in Alyth, Perthshire, and illustrated here two of those lots.
Top right: the 1897 first edition of George Williamson's book
on Richard Cosway..., decorated to the upper cover of the blue
crushed morocco binding with a portrait of Georgina, Duchess of
Devonshire, and other portraits by C.B.Currie, brought a bid of
£15,000, while the 1935 edition of Seven Pillars of Wisdom with its
Currie cover portrait of T.E. Lawrence seen bottom right, a rather
odd, almost comical binding, to my eyes at least, reached
£7500.