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[FORE-EDGE PAINTINGS]. A group of 4 poetical works, comprising:



MONTGOMERY, James. The Wanderer of Switzerland, and Other Poems. Edinburgh and L: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1813. Contemporary red straight-grained morocco gilt gift binding, edges gilt concealing FORE-EDGE PAINTING of a Swiss village on a snow-capped mountain meadow. Sixth edition. -- ROGER, Samuel. Italy, a Poem. L: T. Cadell and E. Moxon, 1836. Contemporary dark green morocco gilt prize binding, edges gilt concealing FORE-EDGE PAINTING of Brindisi on the coast of Italy, stamp-signed by J. Mackenzie. Later edition. -- SCOTT, Walter, Sir. Poetical Works... With a Biographical and Critical Memoir by Francis Turner Palgrave. L & NY: Macmillan, 1890. Late 19th-century teal crushed levant gilt, edges gilt concealing VERTICAL FORE-EDGE PAINTING of an angel after Tintoretto, stamp-signed by Bickers & Son. “Globe edition.” -- GOLDSMITH, Oliver. Works: Poems, Comedies, Essays, Vicar of Wakefield: With Life by Washington Irving. L: Charles Daly, n.d. Late 19th-century dark brown morocco gilt, edges gilt concealing FORE-EDGE PAINTING of a wooded countryside. -- Together, 4 works in 4 volumes, various 16mo, 12mo and 8vo sizes, condition generally very good.

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