Nov 08, 2011 - Sale 2260

Sale 2260 - Lot 276

Price Realized: $ 1,320
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
(FORE-EDGE PAINTING.) Group of 5 volumes with fore-edge paintings featuring tall ships. 4to and 8vo, calf gilt, variously worn; bookplates. Should be seen. London, vd

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Cook. The Poetical Works of Eliza Cook. [1870]. In a contemporary binding with double vertical fore-edge paintings of the H.M.S. Victoria and a portrait of young Queen Victoria on reverse Jones. The Broad, Broad Ocean. In a green calf school prize binding from Owen's School, Islington. Circa 1882 Figuier, Louis. Earth and Sea. School prize binding. Some light foxing to painting of vessels from the Peninsular and Oriental Steamship company. 1875 Brassey. A Voyage in the "Sunbeam." Goldsmith. The Vicar of Wakefield. Illustrated. 1885. With fore-edge painting of a three-masted ship in foreground, two other ships in rear.