Cloth binding for ‘Gray’s Elegy’

1854

Signed; John Leighton

Sand-coloured cloth gilt

10¼ x 7¼ inches

One of Leighton’s most extravagant designs, featuring a concentric mandorla decorated with ivy and other foliate devices.

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