FORE-EDGE PAINTINGS from First Folio

London: Geo. Lawford, 1829. Second edition. Binding with rubbing and old wear, preliminaries foxed, remainder clean. Second edition. Small 8vo. viii, 272p. Illustrated with 280 engravings. This with a very nice oval fore-edge painting of a fox stalking a duck.

Edinburgh: Adam an Charles Black, North Bridge, 1853. A good deal of wear to thespine, flyleaves soiled, probably from repeated display of the excellent painting. 8vo. 375p. Illustrated with wood engravings by Birket Foster and John Gilbert and with a fore-edge painting of Loch-Katrine in the Western Highlands of Perthshire where the poem is set. Bound by J.… Read more about this item

London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, J. Greig and P. Youngman, Witham, and Maldon, 1818. Contents with foxing, covers VG.. Two volumes. Small 8vo. viii, 224p; (viii), 198p. Illustrated with 100 engravings, including a map of the county. Each volume includes an engraved frontispiece and title page. Uniformly bound in full deep brown straight grained morocco, a.e.g.,… Read more about this item

Paris: Ant. Aug. Renouard, 1803. The binding has moderate old wear, the hinges have cracks but are holding, bookplate. Small 8vo. (ii), 296p, (ii, contents). Illustrated with 20 engraved plates, each with tissue guard. Bound in period leather with marbled endpapers, a.e.g., the spine with gilt titles with rules and small ornaments. With a FORE-EDGE painting of Noah's… Read more about this item

Oxford: E. Tyopgrapheo Clarendoniano, 1800. Moderate wear, VG. viii, 330p. Introduction in Latin, text in Greek. Illustrated with a finely executed fore-edge painting of a View of Oxford. Bound in black straight-grain morocco, a.e.g., the spine with gilt titles, the panels with crosshatch designs in blind.

London: Edward Moxon, 1867. Moderate wear with fading to spine, about VG. (iv)178p. Illustrated with a fore-edge painting depicting a ship setting sail. Bound in full blue pebbled morocco with marbled endpapers, a.e.g. with simple gilt titles on spine and upper.

Irvington-on-Hudson, NY: Harvey House, 1966. First edition. Fine in VG+ d.j.. First edition. xiii, 223p. Illustrated, including tipped-in color plates. Gilt-titled tan cloth. The standard text.

London: William Pickering, 1836. From The Aldine Edition of the British Poets. Light wear, but sound and VG. From The Aldine Edition of the British Poets. Small 8vo. xxxvii, [iii], 236p. With a nicely detailed FORE-EDGE PAINTING of St. Paul's Cathedral with sail boats in the foreground. Bound by Hayday in full maroon pebbled morocco with gilt spine… Read more about this item

London: Macmillan, 1923. Very minor wear, near fine - a lovely painting. Small 8vo. lvi, 392p. With a fine FORE-EDGE PAINTING, perhaps of Southwark Cathedral beyond old London Bridge. Bound by Zaehnsdorf in full morocco, a.e.g., marbled endpapers, dentelles.

London: William Pickering, 1828. Pickering's Diamond Classics. Endpapers discolored from the binding, else fine. Pickering's Diamond Classics" Miniature book (4 3/8" x 2"). 192p. With DOUBLE FORE-EDGE paintings by Martin Frost depicting Roman scenes within geometric panels. Bound in full green morocco, a.e.g., the spine with gilt titles and simple panel ornaments, covers with multiple rules in blind,… Read more about this item

London: William Pickering, 1853. Fine, joints almost invisibly repaired. Small 8vo. lxxiii, [iii], 150p. With a fine and well-detailed fore-edge painting of "Magdalen College, Oxford from the Bridge over the River Cherwell". Bound by Leighton, Brewer St. in full green pebbled morocco with marbled endpapers, a.e.g., simple gilt spine titles.

London: Macmillan and Co. and New york, 1888. Fine. [vi], 302p. Printed in red and black and presented in calendar form. With an excellent fore-edge painting of "View of Cambridge Showing St. John's College + 'The Backs'". Bound by Birdsall in full blue pebbled morocco with marbled endpapers, a.e.g., the spine with gilt titles and floral panel ornaments,… Read more about this item

Boston: James B. Osgood, 1873. Complete Edition. The painting is hard to fuces and therefor grainy. Complete Edition" xii, 481p. Illustrated with plates and with a fore-edge painting signed by Vera Dutter. Bound in full tree calf with marbled endpapers, a.e.g., the spine with gilt titles and ornaments. Binding rebacked with original spine laid down. Another seller has… Read more about this item