Lot 195
Fore-Edge Paintings, a collection
Rare Books, Maps & Manuscripts
Auction: 15 January 2014 at 11:00 GMT
Description
12 fore-edge paintings on 10 volumes, 1831-1860: Coleridge, S.T. The Poems. E. Moxon, 1856, 8vo, fore-edge painting of a river inlet with town and sailing ships (North America?); Leigh, Lord. Poems. E. Moxon, 1839, 8vo, presentation inscription (dated January 1893) from the 2nd baron Leigh to the Earl of Selbourne, double fore-edge paintings of Oxford and Warwick; Wetherell, E. Queechy. G. Routledge, 1853. 8vo, fore-edge painting of Baltimore, Maryland; Reynolds, F.M., editor. The Keepsake for MDCCCXXXI. for the Proprietor, [c.1831], 8vo, double fore-edge paintings of Cornwall; Braithwaite, J.B. Memoirs of Joseph John Gurney. Philadelphia: Lippincott, Grambo & Co., 1854, 2 volumes, 8vo, each volume with a fore-edge painting of an unidentified American city; Dante. The vision; or Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise. H.G. Bohn, 1860, 8vo, fore-edge painting of a steam train crossing a railway bridge (identified in a later pencil note as Manchester); [Surtees, R.S.] Mr Romford's Hounds. Bradbury, Agnew & Co., [n.d.], 8vo fore-edge painting of an English coaching scene passing though a town; [Surtees, R.S.] Handley Cross; or Mr Jorrock's Hunt. Bradbury and Evans, 1854, 8vo, fore-edge painting of a crowd and carriages at a race course; [Surtees, R.S.] Plain or Ringlets? Bradbury, Agnew, & Co., [n.d.], fore-edge painting of an English coaching scene in the countryside; sold not subject to return (10)