de Coverly (Roger, binder).- Arnold (Matthew) Merope. A Tragedy, first edition, bound in …

de Coverly (Roger, binder).- Arnold (Matthew) Merope. A Tragedy, first edition, half-title, bound without advertisements at end, light spotting to endpapers, bound in later attractive red morocco tooled in gilt, by Roger de Coverly, covers with oval wreath of six Tudor roses & leaves surrounded by smaller leafy sprays and a border of climbing roses with dots within a double gilt fillet and decorative roll all in gilt, spine gilt in compartments with title, author and Tudor rose against a ground of dots and five raised bands, turn-ins with gilt floral decorations, marbled endpapers, signed at foot of front pastedown, g.e., spine very slightly darkened, 8vo (binding c.175 x 100mm.), 1858. ⁂ A very pretty binding by the celebrated bookbinder Roger de Coverly (1831-1914) who served his apprenticeship with 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.