[Binding, Fine- RiviËre & Son] The Rose Garden of Persia (Inscribed by the Author) by Costello, Louis Stuart - 1845

London: Longman, Brown, Green, & Longmans, 1845. First edition. First edition. Octavo. 193 pages. Superbly bound by RiviÃre (with RiviÃre & Son on front turn-in) in full levant green morocco elaborately decorated with broad and bold gilt paneling along corner designs leaving positive space strap-work, dozens of small red morocco onlays in Persian motifs, spine decorated in gilt with four raised bands and double solid gilt roll to edges. Turn-ins decorated in gilt with binder's stamp to front turn-in, maroon endpapers. Inscribed by the author opposite the title page, "Miss Kelly / from the Author / December, 1845." Text decorated with elaborate red frames and chapter titles further decorated in heavy gilt, blue, and red. Near fine. With small bookplate of Herschel V. Jones, publisher of the Minneapolis Journal, and a noted book collector. Text within red ornamented borders, pages illuminated in Gold and Colors. Spine uniformly sunned as often found with this color green morocco. From the collection of Herschel V. Jones, with his leather label, and (reportedly) from the collection William Randolph Hearst, and thence to Randall J. Moskovitz, MD, Memphis, with his bookplate laid-in. Housed in contemporary slipcase.