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Lot 88
Sale 800 - Fine Books and Manuscripts
Lots 1-273
Nov 12, 2020
4:00AM CT
Lots 274-476
Nov 13, 2020
4:00AM CT
Live / Chicago
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$750
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Lot Description
[FORE-EDGE PAINTINGS]. A group of 3 works containing fore-edge paintings, comprising:
MOORE, Thomas. Songs, Ballads and Sacred Songs. London, 1849. Contemporary brown morocco gilt, edges gilt, concealing a FORE-EDGE PAINTING of a view of Stockholm (rubbing to extremities). Provenance: Edm. Faunce Hardwick (signature, 1871); C. H. Wright (signature); Binns & Goodwin Booksellers, Bath (bookseller’s label). -- TENNYSON, Alfred. Maud and Other Poems. London, 1870. Contemporary red morocco gilt, edges gilt, concealing a FORE-EDGE PAINTING of a fishing scene. -- GOLDSMITH, Oliver. The Poetical and Prose Works. Edinburgh and London: Gall & Inglis, n.d. Contemporary gilt-stamped morocco, edges gilt, concealing a FORE-EDGE PAINTING of a north view of the city of Westminster from the roof of the Banqueting House White Hall (rubbing to extremities). Provenance: Arthur Kenneth I. Bruce (signature 1881). -- Together, 3 works in 3 volumes, all contemporary morocco gilt, edges gilt, all concealing fore-edge paintings, condition generally fine.
Property from the Collection of Michael and Kay Melet