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London: Richard Bentley, Publisher in Ordinary to Her Majesty, 1849. First edition. Illustrated. xvi, 445 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. In publisher's presentation pebbled green gilt morocco, with emblematic gilt tooling, a.e.g., a few scuffs to covers. With inscription to Francis Gilbert Dyke Acland on leaving Eton 1861. First edition. Illustrated. xvi, 445 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Publisher's Binding with American Trout Fishing Fore-edge. With a later fore-edge painting of trout fishing on the Chateaugay Lake, Franklin County, New York. Van Winkle, p. 32
Proverbial Philosophy [fore-edge painting] by Tupper Martin F - 1861
by Tupper Martin F
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Proverbial Philosophy [fore-edge painting]
by Tupper Martin F
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London: Hatchard and Co, 1861. Later Edition. Hardcover (Full Leather). Very Good Condition. Full period red morocco, gilt, spine with 5 raised bands. A bit of wear at corners, hinges modestly rubbed. With a charming fore-edge painting of two anglers. Size: Octavo (8vo). Previous owner's inscription in ink, neat. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Philosophy; Art & Design. Inventory No: 044518.
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by (Fore-edge) Herbert, Henry William ["Frank Forester"]
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The Rule And Exercises Of Holy Dying [With Rare Historical Fore-Edge Painting Of Early View Of Washington Dc From Arlington Heights, Showing Washington Monument Under Construction]
by Taylor, Jeremy
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London: W. Pickering, 1850. 5th or later Edition . Red Morocco. Near Fine. Fore-Edge Painting. 262 Pp. Full Pebbled Red Morocco, All Compartments Gilt, Five Bands, Covers Elaborately Gilt With Nine Borders In Gilt, Inner Blind-Stamped Rule With Corner Embellishment, Elaborately Gilt Edges And Elaborately Gilt Turns, All Edges Of Page Block Gilt, Yellow Endpapers, With Bound In Black Silk Marker. Title Page In Red And Black. 6 5/8" Tall. Remarkably Well Preserved, Slight Rubbing, No Names Or Marks. This Example With A Well-Preserved Fore Edge Painting Of Washington D. C. From Arlington Heights With Potomac River And Several Ships In Foreground, Painting Apparently Done Apparently Circa 1850-1853 As The Washington Monument Is Depicted As About 1/3 Completed.
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Scelta Di Poesie Italiane d" Autori Moderni [Fore-edge Painting]
by Buttura, Antonio [1770-1832]
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Parigi: Presso Lefevre, 1822. 42mo. Fore-edge painting depicting the leaning tower of Pisa along side the Cathedral. 310pp. vol. 30 only. Text in Italian. Bound in full maroon straight grained morocco, slightly raised bands with title gilt, all edges gilt, magnificently rebacked with original spine laid down. A charming little book with early bookplate depicting a royal cape with crown on top and with central initials (?).
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Poems: [Fore-edge Painting]
by Rogers, Samuel
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London: Edward Maxon, 1851. New Edition. hardcover. Very Good. 8 1/8" × 5 5/8" (20.6 × 14.3 cm) . Printed by Bradbury and Evans, Printers Extraordinary to the Queen, Whitefriars. 8vo. Bound in fine hardcover full green morocco. Elaborately decorated gilt boards. Five raised spine bands with gilt titles and extra gilt in compartments. Gilt board edge decorations. Gilt inner dentelles. All edges gilt. [ii], 305, [i]. Fore-edge painting of a bucolic scene. Engraving of Rogers. Illustrated with numerous in-text engravings. Binding rubbed at extremities. Front inner hinge starting. Ink inscription to ffep: "A Birthday memento of affection from R.B.P. to Jamis K. Dawsen, 1856" (paper lifts on front free endpaper where something was pasted down to cover the inscription and then removed. Second inscription 1918. Small Bloomingdale's book seller label and a pencil inscription "Holland House" on verso of front free endpaper. Foxing throughout with occasional minor soiling. Condition overall: Very Good.
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["E chi non vede senza meraviglia l’opera di Francesco Marcolini da Forlì?" (G. Vasari, Vite de’ Pittori)]
by Marcolini Francesco
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2° (mm 313x211); cc. 104 [recte]. Pergamena coeva con, ai tagli, decorazioni a secco a forma di carte da gioco. Bellissimo esemplare.A splendid, unsophisticated copy in its original vellum binding. On the three edges of the book, blind-tooled decorations in the shape of playing cards.
Seconda e definitiva edizione (la princeps è del 1540).
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The books provides answers to fifty questions, thirteen of which are to be asked by men, thirteen of which are to be asked by women, and the remainder of which may be asked by both men and women. The allegory of the human quality or defect corresponding to the question must then be sought and a pair of cards drawn. After further steps involving the drawing of further cards (five in total), one reaches an answer taken from one of the great philosophers. The answers of the philosophers were put into terzine by Lodovico Dolce.
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Frank Forester's Fish and Fishing of the United States and British Provinces of North America
by (Fore-edge) Herbert, Henry William ["Frank Forester"]
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London: Richard Bentley, Publisher in Ordinary to Her Majesty, 1849. First edition. Illustrated. xvi, 445 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. In publisher's presentation pebbled green gilt morocco, with emblematic gilt tooling, a.e.g., a few scuffs to covers. With inscription to Francis Gilbert Dyke Acland on leaving Eton 1861. First edition. Illustrated. xvi, 445 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Publisher's Binding with American Trout Fishing Fore-edge. With a later fore-edge painting of trout fishing on the Chateaugay Lake, Franklin County, New York. Van Winkle, p. 32
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The Rule And Exercises Of Holy Dying [With Rare Historical Fore-Edge Painting Of Early View Of Washington Dc From Arlington Heights, Showing Washington Monument Under Construction]
by Taylor, Jeremy
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London: W. Pickering, 1850. 5th or later Edition . Red Morocco. Near Fine. Fore-Edge Painting. 262 Pp. Full Pebbled Red Morocco, All Compartments Gilt, Five Bands, Covers Elaborately Gilt With Nine Borders In Gilt, Inner Blind-Stamped Rule With Corner Embellishment, Elaborately Gilt Edges And Elaborately Gilt Turns, All Edges Of Page Block Gilt, Yellow Endpapers, With Bound In Black Silk Marker. Title Page In Red And Black. 6 5/8" Tall. Remarkably Well Preserved, Slight Rubbing, No Names Or Marks. This Example With A Well-Preserved Fore Edge Painting Of Washington D. C. From Arlington Heights With Potomac River And Several Ships In Foreground, Painting Apparently Done Apparently Circa 1850-1853 As The Washington Monument Is Depicted As About 1/3 Completed.
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Scelta Di Poesie Italiane d" Autori Moderni [Fore-edge Painting]
by Buttura, Antonio [1770-1832]
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Parigi: Presso Lefevre, 1822. 42mo. Fore-edge painting depicting the leaning tower of Pisa along side the Cathedral. 310pp. vol. 30 only. Text in Italian. Bound in full maroon straight grained morocco, slightly raised bands with title gilt, all edges gilt, magnificently rebacked with original spine laid down. A charming little book with early bookplate depicting a royal cape with crown on top and with central initials (?).
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Poems: [Fore-edge Painting]
by Rogers, Samuel
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London: Edward Maxon, 1851. New Edition. hardcover. Very Good. 8 1/8" × 5 5/8" (20.6 × 14.3 cm) . Printed by Bradbury and Evans, Printers Extraordinary to the Queen, Whitefriars. 8vo. Bound in fine hardcover full green morocco. Elaborately decorated gilt boards. Five raised spine bands with gilt titles and extra gilt in compartments. Gilt board edge decorations. Gilt inner dentelles. All edges gilt. [ii], 305, [i]. Fore-edge painting of a bucolic scene. Engraving of Rogers. Illustrated with numerous in-text engravings. Binding rubbed at extremities. Front inner hinge starting. Ink inscription to ffep: "A Birthday memento of affection from R.B.P. to Jamis K. Dawsen, 1856" (paper lifts on front free endpaper where something was pasted down to cover the inscription and then removed. Second inscription 1918. Small Bloomingdale's book seller label and a pencil inscription "Holland House" on verso of front free endpaper. Foxing throughout with occasional minor soiling. Condition overall: Very Good.
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["E chi non vede senza meraviglia l’opera di Francesco Marcolini da Forlì?" (G. Vasari, Vite de’ Pittori)]
by Marcolini Francesco
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2° (mm 313x211); cc. 104 [recte]. Pergamena coeva con, ai tagli, decorazioni a secco a forma di carte da gioco. Bellissimo esemplare.A splendid, unsophisticated copy in its original vellum binding. On the three edges of the book, blind-tooled decorations in the shape of playing cards.
Seconda e definitiva edizione (la princeps è del 1540).
Second edition, definitively enlarged and corrected by the Author.
The books provides answers to fifty questions, thirteen of which are to be asked by men, thirteen of which are to be asked by women, and the remainder of which may be asked by both men and women. The allegory of the human quality or defect corresponding to the question must then be sought and a pair of cards drawn. After further steps involving the drawing of further cards (five in total), one reaches an answer taken from one of the great philosophers. The answers of the philosophers were put into terzine by Lodovico Dolce.
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Proverbial Philosophy
by Tupper, Martin F
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T. Hatchard, 1856-01-01. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 17 to 19 cm tall (12mo). Joint split and repaired. Posted within 1 working day. 1st class tracked post to the UK, Airmail tracked worldwide. Robust recyclable packaging.
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Proverbial Philosophy
by TUPPER, Martin F
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Philadelphia: E. H. Butler, 1867. Hardcover. Good. Good hardcover in full leather with gold decorative stamping on front cover and spine, Leather is worn at spine edges, ends and corners. Rear board is detached. Please Note: This book has been transferred to Between the Covers from another database and might not be described to our usual standards. Please inquire for more detailed condition information.
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Proverbial philosophy
by Martin F Tupper
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T Hatchard. 1854 T Hatchard 19th edition hardback; Good sound copy, just some edge wear to embossed brown boards, names inside dated 1855 and 1857; no dj; UK dealer, immediate dispatch . Good. Hardcover. 1854.
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Proverbial Philosophy
by Tupper, Martin F
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London: Hatchard & Co. 1864. Full-Leather. Later printing, "hundred-and-tenth thousand." Small, full leather binding, very good. Rubbing of leather at edges and corners, all edges gilt, gilt decoration on boards and spine is bright; all pge edges are gilt. Author photograph affixed to preliminary, with facsimile of signature beneath. First and Second Series; a long poem in free verse.
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Proverbial Philosophy
by Tupper, Martin F
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T. Hatchard, 1854T. hardcover. Very Good. in x in x in. T. Hatchard 1854 edition. Pages clean and bright, inscription on first page, binding firm, minor shelf wear to cover.
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Proverbial Philosophy
by Tupper, Martin F
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E. H. Butler Co., Philadelphia. Hardcover. Good. > Edition/Printing: Authorized edition | Overweight, No International shipping, No Expedited shipping. Standard shipping only. Bright gilt edges, gilt decoration to covers. Light Corner Bumps, small booksellers label to upper left corner and marking on FEP. Gift inscription on ffep. 391 pp. > Language: English | > Size: 8vo - over 7 3/4 in - 9 3/4 in Tall | > Media/Binding: Gilt Decorated Hard Cover |
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Proverbial Philosophy: In Four Series, Now First Complete
by Martin F. Tupper
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London: Smith, Elder. Undated. Minor wear to bumped spine ends. Foxing to prelims, owner's name else minimal internal wear . Very Good. Hardcover.
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Proverbial Philosophy: in Four Series, now First Complete Including the Fiftieth edition of the First two Series
by Tupper, Martin, F
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London: Ward, Lock & Co. xii 456pp hardback, red ruled margin to pages, 3q burgundy calf gilt over marbled boards, marbled eps, with biographical sketch, frontis portrait, later gift inscription, nd ca 1870 . Good. Hardcover. 1870.
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Proverbial Philosophy, (The First and Second Series).
by TUPPER, Martin F
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Moxon, 1867-01-01. Hardcover. Good. . Ex-library copy with usual markings. Rebacked spine, cover shows minor wear and tear, edgewear and rubbing. Pages show minor scattered foxing.
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PROVERBIAL PHILOSOPHY
by TUPPER, MARTIN F
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London 1854, 1933. unbound. Bueno. London 1854. Thomas Hatchard. Illustrated. 368 pp. 24 x 17. Tela. Lomo rozado. Cantos dorados. Texto en buen estado.
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Poems By Thomas Hood. Sixth Edition. [With Fore-Edge Painting Of A Fencing Lesson]
by Hood, Thomas
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London: Edward Moxon, 1853. 5th or later Edition . Hardcover. Fine. Frontispiece. X, 388 Pp. Full Morocco, Elaborately Gilt Spine, Covers, And Turns; All Edges Gilt; Yellow Endpapers. 19Th Century Blindstamp Of John Mylrea, Bookseller, Douglas. Previous Owner's Inscription Dated 1854; Later Inscription Dated 1983. Fine (Leather Professionally Conditioned, Corners Touched Up, Furbished. Fore Edge Painting Of A Fencing Lesson In A Drawing Room.
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Memoirs Of Rev. John Blackader; Compiled Chiefly From Unpublished Manuscripts, And Memoirs Of His Life And Ministry Written By Himself While Prisoner On The Bass; And Containing Illustrations Of The Episcopal Persecution From The Restoration To The Death Of Charles Ii. With An Appendix Giving A Short Account Of The History And Siege Of The Bass, Etc. (With A Fore-Edge Painting)
by Crichton, Andrew
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Edinburgh / London: Archibald Constable & Company / Hurst, Robinson & Co, 1823. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good. Frontispiece, Fore-Edge Painting. Vii, 388 Pp. Full Calf, Five Bands, Black Spine Label, Gilt All Compartments, Gilt Seal Of George Agar Ellis, 2St Baron Dover. Pages With Marbled Edges And A Fore-Edge Painting Of What Was Apparently A Very Large Church In A Low Country Village Or Town, With A Man Looking On In Foreground, Almost Certainly Rev. Blackader Looking At His Parish. George James Welbore Agar-Ellis, 1St Baron Dover Pc Frs Fsa (14 January 1797 - 10 July 1833) Was A British Politician And Man Of Letters. Agar-Ellis Was The Only Son Of Henry Agar-Ellis, 2Nd Viscount Clifden, And Lady Caroline, Daughter Of George Spencer, 4Th Duke Of Marlborough. He Was Educated At Westminster School And Christ Church, Oxford. He Was Elected A Fellow Of Both The Society Of Antiquaries And Royal Society In 1816. Agar-Ellis Was Returned To Parliament For Heytesbury In 1818, A…
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Deux Traitez L'un De La Flaterie Et Des Louanges: L'aure De La Medisance. (With Fore-Edge Painting Of St. Denis, Near Paris)
by De Villethierry, Girard
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Paris: Chez Damonneville, 1741. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good +. Title Page Device; Headpieces; Fore-Edge Painting. Xxiv, 388 Pp. Chocolate Brown Morocco, Five Bands, Gilt Title, Ancient Marbled Endpapers, All Edges Of Boards Gilt, Gilt Turns, Edges Of Page Block All Gilt. Fore Edge Painting Of St. Denis, River In Foreground, Town In Background, Near Paris. Light Rubbing At Corners With Tiny Frays To Two Upper Tips.
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Poems: [Fore-edge Painting]
by Rogers, Samuel
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London: Edward Maxon, 1851. New Edition. hardcover. Very Good. 8 1/8" × 5 5/8" (20.6 × 14.3 cm) . Printed by Bradbury and Evans, Printers Extraordinary to the Queen, Whitefriars. 8vo. Bound in fine hardcover full green morocco. Elaborately decorated gilt boards. Five raised spine bands with gilt titles and extra gilt in compartments. Gilt board edge decorations. Gilt inner dentelles. All edges gilt. [ii], 305, [i]. Fore-edge painting of a bucolic scene. Engraving of Rogers. Illustrated with numerous in-text engravings. Binding rubbed at extremities. Front inner hinge starting. Ink inscription to ffep: "A Birthday memento of affection from R.B.P. to Jamis K. Dawsen, 1856" (paper lifts on front free endpaper where something was pasted down to cover the inscription and then removed. Second inscription 1918. Small Bloomingdale's book seller label and a pencil inscription "Holland House" on verso of front free endpaper. Foxing throughout with occasional minor soiling. Condition overall: Very Good.
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Scelta Di Poesie Italiane d" Autori Moderni [Fore-edge Painting]
by Buttura, Antonio [1770-1832]
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Parigi: Presso Lefevre, 1822. 42mo. Fore-edge painting depicting the leaning tower of Pisa along side the Cathedral. 310pp. vol. 30 only. Text in Italian. Bound in full maroon straight grained morocco, slightly raised bands with title gilt, all edges gilt, magnificently rebacked with original spine laid down. A charming little book with early bookplate depicting a royal cape with crown on top and with central initials (?).
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POEMS BY WILLIAM COWPER ESQ. Of the Inner Temple. Two Volume Set with Hidden Fore-Edge Paintings
by Cowper, William
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Sastamala, Finland
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London: Printed by W. Wilson for J. Bumpus et al, 1821. Hardcover. Good. Bound in full red contemporary morocco with gilt borders and all edges gilt. pp. x, 242, pp. iv, 280, with frontispiece to vol 1. Minor spotting both volumes, occasional finger-marks or similar. A few Pencil notes to prelims, Cracked at fep, volume 2. Good overall condition, both bindings firm and square. The "disappearing" paintings are visible only when the block is fanned to the right and would otherwise escape notice. Each painting depicts an angling scene - "fly-fishing" and "trolling for pike". I can detect no artist name or monograph. The images have retained their colour well and are in Good condition.
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SONGS, BALLADS AND SACRED SONGS. Ornate Shagreen Binding with Hidden Fore-Edge Painting
by Moore, Thomas
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London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855. Hardcover. Very Good. An extraordinary copy of this popular 19th century title by the Irish poet. Bound in contemporary green Shagreen with exquisite gold tooling, raised bands at the spine. All edges gilt, the fore-edge features a hidden or "disappearing" painting - visible in full when the page-edges are fanned to the right. According to a previous owner pencil note to the verso of the front endpaper, the image is "Stallion with Brood Mare and Foal". 8vo, pp. 284, with illustration at title page. The binding is firm and square. Rubbing with minor loss of the leather at the corners and at the corners of the backstrip. Very small scuffs at the joints. Previous owner bookplate fixed to front pastedown. Appears to be entirely free from foxing or spotting. Excellent condition and a spectacular example of the bookbinder's art.
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The Rule And Exercises Of Holy Dying [With Rare Historical Fore-Edge Painting Of Early View Of Washington Dc From Arlington Heights, Showing Washington Monument Under Construction]
by Taylor, Jeremy
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London: W. Pickering, 1850. 5th or later Edition . Red Morocco. Near Fine. Fore-Edge Painting. 262 Pp. Full Pebbled Red Morocco, All Compartments Gilt, Five Bands, Covers Elaborately Gilt With Nine Borders In Gilt, Inner Blind-Stamped Rule With Corner Embellishment, Elaborately Gilt Edges And Elaborately Gilt Turns, All Edges Of Page Block Gilt, Yellow Endpapers, With Bound In Black Silk Marker. Title Page In Red And Black. 6 5/8" Tall. Remarkably Well Preserved, Slight Rubbing, No Names Or Marks. This Example With A Well-Preserved Fore Edge Painting Of Washington D. C. From Arlington Heights With Potomac River And Several Ships In Foreground, Painting Apparently Done Apparently Circa 1850-1853 As The Washington Monument Is Depicted As About 1/3 Completed.
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[Hidden Double Fore-Edge Paintings] In Memoriam. 17th Edition
by [Tennyson, Alfred]
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London: Edward Moxon & Co., 1865. Decorated with hidden double fore-edge paintings displaying the harbors of Boston and Philadelphia, the paintings are unsigned but done with a lovely touch. Finely bound in red straight-grain morocco with green morocco inlays, with gilt titles and elaborate gilt tooling to the spine and panels, all edges gilt, gilt dentelles, the stamp of S. Hogg, Binder front paste down. Near Fine, slight wear at joints. . Seventeenth Edition . Straight - Grain Morocco. Near Fine/No Jacket, As Issued. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall.
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THE FORSYTE SAGA: Fore-Edge Painting,
by Galsworthy John
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Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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London: William Heinemann Ltd / Windmill Press, 1951. first Facimilie. full Morocco. THE FORSYTE SAGAJohn GalsworthyFORE-EDGE PAINTINGPublished by William Heinemann Ltd / Windmill Press 1951This is the 1951 reprint from 1922 including folding family tree chart as frontice.1042pp not illustrated as per the original 1922 edition. Bound in full red straight grain Morocco for Henry Sotherans, Ltd. With tipped in signature of John Galsworthy dated March 11 1916.Fore-Edge painting is the view of Richmond Bridge, London. Beautifully painted showing the bridge and its quaint surroundings.The Forsyte Saga was first published in its entirety in 1922; the illustrated single volume edition with Anthony Gross's highly acclaimed drawings was first published in 1950. The Forsyte Saga earned Galsworthy the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1932, and his tales of the vicissitudes of a large upper-middle-class English family have been adapted under various guises for film and television, including the 1949 Hollywood film…
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