The rape of the lock : an heroi-comical poem in five cantos / written by Alexander Pope ; embroidered with eleven drawings by Aubrey Beardsley.
Alexander Pope (1688 - 1744)
Category
Books
Date
1897
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3124661
Summary
Bibliographic description
xix, [1], 61, [1] p. : ill. ; 16mo. With 13, [1] p. publisher's advertisements bound at end. Additional leaf bound in before p. [i] with text: 'This is No. 924 of the Cosway Bindings invented by J.H. Stonehouse, with Miniatures on Ivory by Miss Currie. Signed J.H. Stonehouse Inventor. C.B. Currie Artist.' [The signatures and number "924" are in ink.] Provenance: Twentieth-century armorial bookplate (small variant), signed Badeley 1930: ‘Urban Huttleston Rogers Lord Fairhaven’ [i.e.: Urban Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Bookseller's ink-stamp on verso of front pastedown: 'Henry Sotheran Ltd [-?] Piccadilly'. Binding: Early twentieth-century Cosway binding: full brown morocco; miniature of Alexander Pope (by Currie) on upper board with elaborate gilt tooled border; gilt fillet and roll to form an outer border on lower board with gilt-stamped corner-pieces (scallop shell and flowers); spine gilt, lettered direct (gilt tooled): 'The Rape of the Lock', 'Pope', '1897'; sewn onto five raised cords; double gilt fillet on board edges; fore edge boards gilt-stamped: 'Cosway binding' and 'Invented by J.H. Stonehouse'; gilt fillets and rolls on turn-ins with gilt-stamps in corners (star and flowers); gilt textblock edges; peach watered silk endleaves. Binder's gilt stamp on front pastedown: 'Bound by Riviere & Son'. Gilt stamp on rear pastedown: 'Miniatures by C. B. Currie'. In brown cloth-covered slip-case.
Makers and roles
Alexander Pope (1688 - 1744), author Aubrey Beardsley (Brighton 1872 – Menton, France 1898), illustrator