Nov 08, 2011 - Sale 2260

Sale 2260 - Lot 275

Price Realized: $ 1,440
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
(FORE-EDGE PAINTING.) Group of 5 titles in 6 volumes. 8vo, contemporary bindings, condition varies but generally quite good. Each with a fore-edge painting of various subjects. Should be seen. Vp, vd

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Jameson. Sacred and Legendary Art. Third Edition. 2 volumes. London, 1857. Each with a biblical scene along the fore edge: St. Jerome in Volume 1, figure in blue cloak (possibly St. Anthony, St. Paul, or other Hermit) Tennyson. Idylls of the King. In a contemporary full vellum gilt binding, some surface scuffing. London, 1864. With a view of a mountain village. Gauthier. Émaux et Camées. In a pretty full red calf with elaborate gold, teal, and burgundy gilt doublures; front silk endpaper defective. 1/700 copies. Paris, 1887. Faint, softly-colored fore-edge image of a nymph in the style of the book's illustrator, Gustave Fraipont Church. Saint Anselm. In a school prize binding, by Zaehnsdorf. With an image of a blacksmith and horses on the fore-edge Doogood. The Coming Day. In a Grolier-style green morocco gilt binding by Zaehnsdorf, rebacked retaining original backstrip. London, [1891]. With a plain fore-edge view of an unnamed castle.