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Little Dorrit
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Bayntun of Bath
Author
Dickens, Charles
Title
Little Dorrit
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Style: Cosway|Pictorial|Floral; Caption: Upper cover; Colour: Brown|Violet; Edge: Gilt
Date Binding: 20c
Medium Decorative Technique: Tooled in gold|Painted|Onlaid; Cover Material: Goatskin (includes morocco, turkey etc)
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Shelfmark: Davis275
Place of creation Binding: England
Object history Text: 1857; London; Unspecified
Notes With orange silk bookmarkers, cloud marbled endleaves, binder's signature. The water colour painting is under a protective layer of mica. With the bookplate of J. F. D. Tutt. He owned another Cosway binding on Dombey and Son, also with his bookplate.
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A discussion of Cosway bindings see the Book Collector, 1971, p68.

Stephen Ratcliffe, Cosway bindings : a collection of rare and important catalogues, [2009]
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