Nov 13, 2018 - Sale 2493

Sale 2493 - Lot 119

Price Realized: $ 219
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 200 - $ 300
(FORE-EDGE PAINTING.) The Countess of Blessington (editor.). Heath's Book of Beauty. 1843. With Beautifully Finished Engravings, from Drawings by the First Artists. Illustrated. 8vo, contemporary 1/2 tan calf, spine gilt tooled with morocco lettering piece, all edges gilt, joints and corners rubbed with exposure; foxing to front and end matter, Lord Battersea bookplate to front pastedown. With a fore-edge painting of a pastoral scene with country church. London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1843