[ Roger de Coverly binding ] .THE POETICAL WORKS OF HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW. (Reprinted from the Revised American Edition) With Explanatory Notes.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth:

Published by Frederick Warne and Co London and New York Undated c, 1890

About this Item

A full calf binding by Roger de Coverly. Book size - c. 7.5 x 5.25 inches, pp. portrait frontispiece + x + 630, hardback in full leather binding, gilt patterned dentelles, all edges gilt , marbled endpapers. Book condition - Good plus ; contents clean, some foxing and dustiness to the preliminaries, no inscriptions, on the verso of the front flyleaf are printed in small type 'Roger de Coverly' at the top and at the foot ' N. Simmons, 25 Catherine Street, Salisbury' , the edges of the front and back flyleaves have a strip (c. 4mm wide) of darkening around the edges (corresponds to the decorated dentelles of the boards - which are in good condition), inner hinges split but boards secure, gilt the gilt on the textblock edges is in good condition with just the top edge slightly dulled ( note - the darker patches shown in the photo of the fore-edge is a visual aberration of the photo) ; brown full calf biinding with a single border of floral gilt decoration on front and back boards with the central area having alternating rows of leaf and floral motifs, panelled spine with raised bands and full gilt decoration ; front corners a little rubbed and slightly bent but not split, boards' edge (with single gilt line) showing some wear but remaining sound, the back cover gilt is all complete and bright with the leather showing some marks, back hinge split in the top half , spine complete with some rubbing at the headcaps and smalll piece of loss of the top headcap, some light vertical crease marks, spine colour a touch darkened but the gilt decoration and title remain complete and bright, front hinge split in the top two-thirds, front cover gilt complete and bright, front leather with some marking . Please see photos for indications of condition. Roger de Coverly (1831 - 1914) began book binding with an apprenticeship with Zaehnsdorf . He then tried to move in to book selling but this proved to be unsuccessful and he reverted to binding, establishing his own workshops in London As a one man band, he had to forward an finish the bindings himself but slowly the bindings business began to flourish. It was patronised by aristocrats, noted writers (for example T E Lawrence) and artists. He undertook a good deal of work for William Morris, and he counted among the greatest of all English bookbinders, T. J. Cobden-Sanderson, who served an apprenticeship with him in 1883-84. de Coverly's sons proved adept at bookbinding and bookselling and by 1892 he became less involved in the business, preferring other diversions.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: [ Roger de Coverly binding ] .THE POETICAL WORKS OF HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW. (Reprinted from the Revised American Edition) With Explanatory Notes.
• Publisher: Frederick Warne and Co London and New York Undated c
• Publication Date: 1890
• Binding: Hardcover
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