May 12, 2011 - Sale 2247

Sale 2247 - Lot 271

Unsold
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 2,000
WITH TEN FORE-EDGE PAINTINGS (FORE-EDGE PAINTINGS.) Moore, Thomas. The Poetical Works. Engraved frontispiece and additional title in each volume. 10 volumes. Small 8vo, contemporary green pebble-grain morocco gilt with red and black morocco lettering pieces, spines faded to olive; small ink blot in blank outer margin of first few leaves in Volume 5, contents otherwise quite clean. London, 1869

Additional Details

With a colorful though naive fore-edge painting in each volume presumably relating in some way to the contents.