Nov 08, 2011 - Sale 2260

Sale 2260 - Lot 277

Price Realized: $ 1,680
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
(FORE-EDGE PAINTING.) Group of 6 volumes with fore-edge paintings of the author or subject. Mostly large 8vo, calf bindings, contemporary except for the two Dickens works, condition varies, but generally good. Mostly London, vd

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Shakespeare. The Dramatic Works. 1821. Bust portrait of Shakespeare with Avon in background Gurwood. Selections from the Dispatches and General Orders of Field Marshal The Duke of Wellington. 1841. With a split vertical fore-edge showing The Duke of Wellington on the left and Napoleon on the right The Poems of Shakespeare. 1857. With a double vertical fore-edge featuring Queen Elizabeth on the left and Shakespeare on the right Dickens. David Copperfield. Bound from a series of works of Dickens, in a school prize binding. Rebacked in 20th century leather gilt. [1870]. With split vertical paintings of Dickens, from 1870 on the left and 1839 on the right. Dickens. Dealings with the Firm of Dombey and Son. Bound from a series of works of Dickens, in a modern calf binding. [1870]. Painting shows a central portrait of Dickens, Dombey and Son at left, and Captain Cuttle at right Shakespeare's Complete Works. London, 1913. With a character scene from Merchant of Venice.