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A Series of Highly Finished Romantic Views in Scotland by [FORE-EDGE PAINTING]
Book Description
London: Vernor and Hood, 1819. First edition. Octavo. Title and fifty full page steel-plate engravings (predominantly of great estates), each plate captioned and with the original tissue guard. Contemporary straight-grain red morocco with cover borders comprised on double gilt fillets, repeating gilt shell pattern and blind-stamped Etruscan key design, spine densely gilt in compartments and with gilt lettering, chocolate endpapers, all edges gilt. Tasteful bookplate. Housed in a quarter red morocco slipcase. Bit of rubbing to joints but a sound and beautiful copy. This copy with a finely accomplished contemporary fore-edge painting of Berwick Village showing the Curtain Wall, sailing ships, horses, and a setting sun over the town.
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