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Lot 240
Sale 4605 - Books, Maps & Manuscripts
Jun 20, 2019
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[Fine Bindings] [Fore-edge Paintings] Palmer, William Origines Liturgicae, or Antiquities of the English Ritual, and a Dissertation on Primitive Liturgies
Oxford: at the University Press, 1839. Third edition. 8vo. Volume one with a fore-edge painting of Old London Bridge; volume two with a fore-edge painting of the Tower of London, both ca. 1700. Later 19th century full black morocco, blind foliate design at the center of each cover, decorative gilt paneling, decoratively gilt spines, inner dentelles gilt. Corners bumped, joints and extremities lightly scuffed, fore-edge paintings in excellent states of preservation; gift inscription in ink at head of the title-page in both volumes, glue residue on the front paste-down in the first volume, text very lightly toned.