Antique Fine Bindings - Unusual Faux-Vellum Victorian Binding popular - Moxon's Poets - The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott

The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott, BART. Scott, Sir Walter. Undated, circa 1880s. E. Moxon Son & Co. London, Dover Street.

Faux-vellum covers tooled with gilt and decorated with ruled navy border and navy and red embellishment. Covers bound in brass-colored metal border. White leather covered spine. All edges gilt. 620 pp. + [2] pp. ads. Good. Rubbed and bumped, foxed somewhat internally, original tissue intact. Features engraved portrait of the author and frontispiece.

An extremely unusual faux-vellum binding with a whiff of the renaissance revival about it, encasing an otherwise ordinary edition of popular the Poetical Works of Walter Scott. Perhaps only one other example of this binding from Moxton extant? Appears scarce in trade.

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