Emerson, Ralph Waldo. Friendship. Hill, Leopold B. 2 Langham Place, WC1. London. Circa 1908. 83 printed pages. Printed by R. Clay & Sons Ltd. London and Bungay. Inner gilt dentelles. Marbled endpapers. 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 rules. Covers mitre panelled and cornered with palmette gilt hand-tooling (minor edgewear; small patches of fading; surface scratchon front cover). 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, 2632. OCLC, 426488661. WorldCat locates 2 copies worldwide (Unversities of Chicago and of South Carolina). 129 firsts2024