four-english-books-with-fore-edge-paintings
Lot 460
Four English Books With Fore-Edge Paintings
Lot Details & Additional Photographs
To include: Rogers, Samuel. Poems (London: T. Cadell, 1822), 12mo (6.75 x 4.25 in.), brown morocco, double fore-edge likely depicts Richmond and Kingston-on-Thames (spine and back cover disbound but attached to front; light foxing); Ellis, Robinson. Catullus (London: John Murray, 1871), 12mo (6.75 x 4.5 in.), green morocco with red title plate, gilt rules and seal of the Northern Church of England School seal in gilt on the front cover, the fore-edge painting of Southwark bridge; Tennyson, Alfred. Enoch Arden (London: Edward Moxon & Co., 1864), 12mo (6.5 x 4.5 in.), vellum-covered boards with gilt rules and embellishments, the fore-edge with an urban bridge scene (light soiling; library plate and later stamp to endpapers, good condition); Morley, John> Oliver Cromwell (London: Macmillan & Co., 1901), octavo (8.25 x 5.5 in.), smooth red morocco, the fore-edge with new London bridge (some light rubs to boards, else very fine condition).

Private Collection, Chicago, IL

$300 - 600