James Stuart and his influential Neo-Classical Bindings

THE big natural history sale held by Bonhams on July 15 included a number of items that were in very handsome bindings indeed, but there was, too, a miscellaneous group of lots that included the fine example of the scarce and important neoclassical red morocco gilt bindings designed by James ‘Athenian’ Stuart for presentation copies of Stuart & Revett’s Antiquities of Athens, top right.