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(FORE-EDGE PAINTING.) Group of 3 volumes with fore-edge paintings. Illustrated. Various sizes, leather bindings, variously worn; bookplates. Should be seen. Vp, vd
Specimens of the British Poets. Volume 2, Part 1. 16mo, red calf. Fore edge shows a view of an English village with boats, river, a half-timbered house, and village with cathedral in the distance. London, 1809 Scott. The Lady of the Lake. Twelfth edition. Preliminaries and endleaves dampstained. Large 8vo, period calf binding, quite worn. Fore-edge painting shows a vertical portrait of Sir Walter Scott surrounded by a base and drapery. Edinburgh, 1819 Longfellow. The Poetical Works. New Edition. Illustrations by Gilbert engraved by the Dalziel Brothers. 4to, green morocco with gilt borders and spine, by Holloway, very good condition but for a thin scrape along rear cover; scattered internal foxing, mostly to endleaves. Later inscription from a father to his daughter presenting her with "an example of this almost lost art" [of fore-edge painting] which is a scene of Bruges. London, 1856.
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