[FORE-EDGE PAINTING] -- A Group of 4 works in 5 volumes regarding Courtly Love and Victorian Medievalism concealing fore-edge paintings.
Sale 945 - Fine Printed Books & Manuscripts, Including Americana
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Nov 9, 2021
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[FORE-EDGE PAINTING] -- A Group of 4 works in 5 volumes regarding Courtly Love and Victorian Medievalism concealing fore-edge paintings, comprising:
DRYDEN, John. Fables from Boccaccio and Chaucer. London: Stanhope Press, 1813. 2 works in 1 volume, 12mo (126 x 78 mm). Contemporary 19th-century red straight grained morocco gilt, edges gilt concealing FORE-EDGE PAINTING of an unidentified cityscape with people, horses, and carriages. -- TASSO, Torquato. La Gerusalemme Liberata. London: G. Pickering, 1822. 2 volumes, 32mo. Contemporary red morocco gilt, edges gilt concealing FORE-EDGE PAINTINGS of 2 unidentified cityscapes. – TASSO. Jerusalem Delivered; an Heroic Poem. London: F.C. & J. Rivington, January 1822. 12mo. Contemporary tan calf gilt, red morocco lettering-piece gilt, edges gilt concealing FORE-EDGE PAINTING of Sorrento; slipcase. -- TENNYSON, Alfred Lord. Idylls of the King. London: Edward Moxon & Co., 1862. 8vo (161 x 98 mm). Later 19th-century red morocco gilt, edges gilt concealing FORE-EDGE PAINTING of Blenheim Castle. -- Together, 4 works in 5 volumes, condition generally very good.
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