The Homes and Haunts of Sir Walter Scott, Bart
- Glasgow: James Maclehose, 1897
Glasgow: James Maclehose, 1897. Limited edition. Fine. Limited to 550 copies printed on Japanese vellum paper, a Fine copy. Octavo (8 3/4 x 5 7/8 inches; 222 x 149 mm.). [i]-xiv, [2, map, verso blank], [1]-216 pp. Twenty-four fine photogravure plates and seventy-two engravings in the text. Removed bookplate from front flyleaf. Bound ca. 1905 by Alfred De Sauty, stamped in gilt on front turn-in. Contemporary full green levant morocco, front cover elaborately decorated in gilt pointille and inlaid with Celtic strapwork and floral patterns in red, brown and dark blue morocco's. Rear cover decoratively ruled in gilt with a central strapwork of red, brown and dark blue morocco's. Spine with five raised bands elaborately decorated in gilt pointille and inlaid red morocco flowers. Gilt ruled board edges and turn-ins, red morocco doublures and endleaves, the doublures decorated with flowers in gilt, all edges gilt. Spine very slightly faded, front joint expertly and almost invisibly repaired. Housed in a felt-lined red cloth clamshell case, spine with leather label, lettered in gilt.
A Superb Alfred De Sauty Arts & Crafts Binding with a fine triptych Fore-Edge Painting depicting three scenes from the text: "The Entrance to Milton Lockhart" (page 142); "Norham Castle (page 24); "Lasswade Cottage" (page 33), and with fine gilt pointille work typical of the great Rivière bindings of 1905-1920. "The binding is signed on the leather front doublure. Even though the fore-edges are not signed, no other person but the binder would have added paintings on the fore-edge of a special binding" (Weber).
The work of bookbinder Alfred de Sauty (1870-1949) is appreciated for its delicate tooling. Although little is known about his life, he worked in both London (1898 to 1923) and Chicago (1923 to 1935). “For instance, scholars are unsure whether, when in London, de Sauty worked independently, for the firm of Riviere & Sons, or both. While in London, he may also have been a designer for the Hampstead Bindery and a teacher at the Central School of Arts and Crafts” (Harvard) as works he bound during this period are signed "de S" or "De Sauty.". De Sauty’s career in Chicago working for the hand bindery of R. R. Donnelley & Sons is better documented; bindings made here use the name R. R. Donnelly. “He signed his work at the foot of the front doublure, if present, and at the center of the bottom turn-in of the front upper board, if not” (Harvard).
Provenance: Ziern-Hanon Galleries, Missouri (2009); Weber. Annotated Dictionary, De Sauty 2. (2010). Fine.
A Superb Alfred De Sauty Arts & Crafts Binding with a fine triptych Fore-Edge Painting depicting three scenes from the text: "The Entrance to Milton Lockhart" (page 142); "Norham Castle (page 24); "Lasswade Cottage" (page 33), and with fine gilt pointille work typical of the great Rivière bindings of 1905-1920. "The binding is signed on the leather front doublure. Even though the fore-edges are not signed, no other person but the binder would have added paintings on the fore-edge of a special binding" (Weber).
The work of bookbinder Alfred de Sauty (1870-1949) is appreciated for its delicate tooling. Although little is known about his life, he worked in both London (1898 to 1923) and Chicago (1923 to 1935). “For instance, scholars are unsure whether, when in London, de Sauty worked independently, for the firm of Riviere & Sons, or both. While in London, he may also have been a designer for the Hampstead Bindery and a teacher at the Central School of Arts and Crafts” (Harvard) as works he bound during this period are signed "de S" or "De Sauty.". De Sauty’s career in Chicago working for the hand bindery of R. R. Donnelley & Sons is better documented; bindings made here use the name R. R. Donnelly. “He signed his work at the foot of the front doublure, if present, and at the center of the bottom turn-in of the front upper board, if not” (Harvard).
Provenance: Ziern-Hanon Galleries, Missouri (2009); Weber. Annotated Dictionary, De Sauty 2. (2010). Fine.