Unsigned binding [by John Leech] for Gilbert A Beckett’s ‘The Comic History of Rome’. (original) (raw)

Cloth casing, with a gilt device.

John Leech.

[1860]

Elaborate gilt device imprinted on smooth-textured green cloth.

8¾ x 5½ inches

Another of Leech’s gilt devices showing a neo-classical muse comforting a small boy who is taken from play and has to knuckle down to his classical prep.

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Photograph and text by Simon Cooke

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