Mar 12, 2009 - Sale 2173

Sale 2173 - Lot 70

Price Realized: $ 840
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 500
(FORE-EDGE PAINTING.) Scott, Sir Walter. The Poetical Works. Illustrated. 8vo, thick 8vo, deep burgundy morocco with gilt lozenges in center of covers, surrounded by raised arabesque design, mild rubbing to extremeties; front hinge cracked, gold on fore-edge a little burnished. Edinburgh, nd [1870s]

Additional Details

A pretty double fore-edge painting: one side shows a view of Edinburgh castle from Burntsfield Links; the reverse shows Edinburgh from Canonmills.