The Pilgrims Progress:
From this world to that which is to become.
London, William Pickering, 1849
Coverly (1831-1914) was apprenticed to Zaehnsdorf and worked briefly for J.& J. Leighton before establishing his own bindery in 1870. William Morris sent him several commissions and T.J. Cobden-Sanderson spent a year's apprenticeship with him from 1883-84.
First Pickering edition; 8vo (22.5 x 15 cm); engraved frontispiece, bookplates to front pastedown, ownership inscriptions in pen and pencil to front free endpaper, old catalogue description tipped in to front free endpaper recto; crushed brown morocco by Roger de Coverly, Oxford-style panels ruled in gilt, fleuron cornerpieces to gutter margin, spine gilt in 6 compartments, all edges gilt, spine slightly faded, offsetting to title, the odd spot, otherwise internally clean, near fine; xii, 354, [2]pp.
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