What is Cosway Binding?

A beautiful art ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ [Logo]( [Cosway binding book]( Cosway Binding: Beautifully Bound Books Hand-painted miniature pictures bound into well-crafted covers. Cosway-style binding is a beautiful art, but it has almost nothing to do with portrait painter Richard Cosway. “Cosway Binding” describes a leather-bound book binding inset with detailed miniature paintings on either the cover or inside cover, or both. They are called such after renowned English miniaturist Richard Cosway, although he was long in his grave before the first examples of this bindery method were released. Right around 1903, J. Harrison Stonehouse, the managing director of London’s Henry Sotheran Booksellers, hired the illustrious Rivière bindery to create these fine quality books with miniatures embedded for collectors and connoisseurs. Part of the great success of his Cosway binding method was due to the great skill of his in-house miniaturist, Miss C. B. Currie, who is estimated to have painted several thousand incredibly detailed miniatures on ivory for over 900 bindings before her death around 1940. [See more books]( [The Life and Times of Catherine de' Medici]( [The Life and Times of Catherine de' Medici]( The Life and Times of Catherine de' Medici. This is No. 912 of the Cosway Bindings invented by J. H. Stonehouse, with miniatures on ivory by Miss Currie. [Take a look]( These delicate miniature paintings, often on ivory, were set into the covers or doublures (inside covers) of richly-tooled bindings and protected by a thin pane of glass. For many of the more lavish Cosway bindings, Miss C. B. Currie painted multiple portraits. Occasionally, landscapes and other subjects adorn the covers or doublures. The competing publishing houses quickly began to reproduce this binding style as it proved to be quite popular, but these are considered “Cosway-style” bindings, as they cannot compare to the original releases by Sotheran. Although the fashion for Cosway bindings diminished after World War II, the London binderies of Sangorski & Sutcliffe and Morrell continued to produce morocco-bound volumes with inset miniature paintings. [Learn more about rare books]( [Lord Byron's Poems]( A 1923 printed edition of Byron's poems. [See more]( [Percy B. Shelley's poetical works]( Percy B. Shelley's poetical works (1892). [See more]( [John Keats, His Life and Poetry, His Friends Critics and After-Fame (1917).]( John Keats, His Life and Poetry, His Friends Critics and After-Fame (1917). [Take a look]( [The Life and Times of Catherine de' Medici]( Marie Antoniette by Pierre de Nolhac (1905). [Take a look]( [Facebook]( [Instagram]( [X.com]( This email was sent to {EMAIL} [why did I get this?]( [unsubscribe from this list]( [update subscription preferences]( Biblio.com · PO Box 1211 · Asheville, NC 28802 · USA