Browning, Elizabeth Barrett Sonnets from the Portuguese. Leopold B. Hill, 2 Langham Place, W1. London. Circa 1908. 92 printed pages. Printed by R. Clay & Sons Ltd. London and Bungay. Langham Booklets number 9. Inner gilt dentelles. Marbled endpapers (light spotting). All edges gilt. 64 x 92mm. Contemporary full calf, signed Riviere & Son, London on verso of front free endpaper. Spine with gilt titling, and gilt hand-tooled decoration within ruled and pointille horizontal twin borders. Covers mitre panelled and cornered with palmette gilt hand-tooling. Riviere was the first bookbinder approached by Lutyens about the possibility of miniature bindings for Queen Mary's Dolls' House; Riviere bound 100 of the 176 bindings supplied to the Dolls' House Library, at a cost of £50 in 1924. Welsh, 1482. 137 firsts2024