2021 COSWAY FINAL sml
David Brass Rare Books, Inc.
Cosway bindings were invented in 1903 by John Stonehouse of the London bookselling firm Henry Sotheran and are usually elaborately bound by Riviere & Son and have, set into the front cover (sometimes the rear cover or the inside paste-downs) one or more miniatures hand-painted on ivory by Miss C.B. Currie.
Cosway-Style bindings are very similar - but the hand-painted miniatures are by other various artists. These can also be bound by Riviere and Son, and then from 1927 onward Bayntun-Riviere, Bayntun of Bath and Sangorski & Sutcliffe. Richard Smart of Vancouver BC is now producing some fine examples (see Winston Churchill's The Story of the Malakand Field Force).