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Fore edge painting HOBHOUSE John 1786 1869.
Historical Illustrations of the Fourth Canto of Childe Harold: containing dissertations on the ruins of Rome; and an essay on Italian Literature. Second edition revised and corrected.
London:: John Murray 1818. 1818. 8vo. viii 576 pp. "3 plates" Original green straight grain morocco gilt rules gilt-stamped raised bands rouge endleaves. Bookplates of John Bolton and Marjorie & Martin Mitau. Very good. With a fore-edge painting under the gold entitled: "Fore Edge Castle & Bridge of St. Angelo Tomb of Hadrian." The old Castle at St. Angelo is referenced on p.300: "This imitation of Egyptian deformity must not be supposed to apply to the mausoleum of Hadrian but to the monstrous divinities and the fabrics of the Tiburtine villa. The Mole was constructed it is thought on the plan nearly of the Mausoleum of Augustus or Cecilia Metella." Aikin. A classic scene often depicted on fore-edge paintings. <br /><br /> Provenance: Martin Mitau 1900–1973 and Marjorie nee Fleishhacker Mitau 1906–1983 were both San Franciscans and lived in the Bay Area all their lives. He was a member of Roxburghe Club of San Francisco and the Book Club of California and their collection was strong in California fine printing. - Kelmscott Chaucer census. JWRB John Murray, 1818. hardcover books
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Fore edge Painting HOBHOUSE John.
Historical Illustrations of the fourth canto of Childe Harold: containing dissertations on the ruins of Rome; and an essay on Italian literature. Second edition revised and corrected.
London:: John Murray 1818. 1818. 8vo. viii 576 pp. Original full double gilt-ruled vellum gilt embellished spine olive-brown morocco spine label all edges gilt red endleaves. Fine copy. With a glorious fore-edge painting on the painted edge by the Dover painter of "King's College Chapel Cambridge" and labeled in the artist's ink hand. The artist is known to have worked in the 1920s and 1930s in London thus it is interesting to note that there are two notations with dates: a dated inscription in the back E.H.W. 25/3/31 March 25 1931 $ 85. - with a cost code showing B/-/- over B/H/E. Surely an indication that this was painted by March 1931 and offered for sale by an American bookseller for $ 85. The label shown for the painting also has a code: 116/1/24 which looks like a code/date - if a date then the year would be 1924. This is very much within this artist's time period of activity. JWRB John Murray, 1818. hardcover books
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Fore Edge Painting HOMER CHURCH Rev. Alfred J.
Stories from Homer. With twenty-four illustrations from Flaxman's designs. Twenty-second thousand.
London:: Seeley and Co. 1892. 1892. Small 8vo. x 307 pp. Color illus. Full modern chocolate brown morocco five raised bands gilt spine title all edges marbled. Fine. With a beautiful painting of two lovers in a scene called "The Cock Fight" also called "Young Greeks attending a Cock Fight" painted by Clare Brooksbank signed with her initials in the bottom left-hand corner after an 1846 "Neo-Grec" painting by Jean-Leon Gerôme 1824-1904. The original is in the Musee d'Orsay. "Gerôme portrays a couple of near-naked adolescents at the foot of a fountain. Their youthfulness contrasts with the battered profile of the Sphinx in the background. The same opposition is found between the luxuriant vegetation and the dead branches on the ground and in the fight between the two roosters one of which is doomed to die." - Jean Leongerome. Seeley and Co., 1892. hardcover books
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Fore edge Painting HOOD Thomas 1799 1845.
Whims and Oddities in Prose and Verse; with eighty-seven original designs. A new edition.
London:: Edward Moxon 1860. 1860. Small 8vo. viii 310 pp. Original full reddish-brown blind-stamped morocco with gilt spine title all edges gilt; slightly rubbed. The added thumb-holed brown cloth slip-case is made by Frost at the time of his painting. Very good. DOUBLE FORE-EDGE PAINTING WITH EROTIC SCENES SIGNED BY THE ARTIST: With a double fore-edge painting showing bawdy "and athletic" erotic scenes painted by Martin Frost signed with both his initials and containing his handwritten colophon at rear dated 1999. Frost has painted two side-by-side fore-edges giving four vignettes in all: "Four scenes of athletic and ingenious lust" The first side shows a copulating man and woman on either a horse or on a carriage drawn by a horse after Thomas Rowlandson's works. Frost's initials are found on the lower right of this side. The reverse side shows two vertical vignettes depicting coitus on a bike rather an imaginary wheeled chair with parasol note the erect penis statue in the background and a stage scene with a partially nude woman lifting her skirt high to give a view of her genitals and a happy pot-bellied man with a huge erect penis that balances a bowl and 3 goblets he is talented! his costume of the British stage his genitals showing as if being the star of the show. An audience whoops it up in the gallies. Both characters sportingly wear a feather in their hair or cap. Edward Moxon, 1860. hardcover books
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Fore edge Painting HORACE Quintus Horatius Flaccus.
Carmina. Editio Stereotypa Herhan.
Paris: E Prelis Fratrum Mame 1808. 1808. 12mo. iv xi 1 354 pp. Some light foxing. Original full crimson straight-grain morocco gilt and blind-tooled rules gilt spine extra a.e.g.; rubbed. Bookplate of Bernardine Murphy. Very nice copy. With a fore-edge painting by the "Dover" painter associated with Marks & Co. showing "The Coliseum from the Orto Farnese" perhaps after Frederick Walmisley 1815-1875. <br /><br /> PROVENANCE: The Catholic philanthropist Bernardine Murphy is Sir Daniel J. and Countess Bernardine Murphy Donohue 1904-1968; married in 1954. They resided in Los Angeles at one time buying the mansion of Earle C. Anthony the founder of KABC. That mansion was donated to the Immaculate Heart Sisters in 1971 upon the death of the Countess. The couple established the Daniel Murphy Foundation in 1957 in memory of Bernardine's father to promote important Roman Catholic and other philanthropic causes. Mrs. Donohue is entombed next to Cardinal James Francis McIntyre. The art collection of Sir Daniel Donohue was recently sold at auction. <br /><br /> Antoine Augustin Renouard Catalogue de la Bibliotheque d'un Amateur vol. II 1819 p. 266. JWRB E Prelis Fratrum Mame, 1808. unknown books
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Fore edge Painting HORACE Quintus Horatius Flaccus; William BAXTER; Johann Matthias GESNER; Johann Carl ZEUNE; Richard BENTLEY.
Horatii Flacci Eclogæ cum scholiis veteribus. Castigavit et notis illustravit Guilielmus Baxterus: Varias Lectiones et Observationes Addidit Jo. Matthias Gesnerus; quibus et suas adspersit Jo. Carolus Zeunius editio auctior et emendation cum indice verborum copiosissimo.
London:: J. Johnson T. Payne R. Faulder G. Wilkie & J. Robinson . . . 1809. 1809. 8vo. xlviii 787 1 pp. Original full crimson red straight-grain morocco covers elaborately gilt raised bands a.e.g.; rubbed top spine chipped a bit corner shows wear. Bookplate of Bernardine Murphy; title-page ink signature upper margin of John Parr 1815. Very good. With a fore-edge painting by the "Dover" artist showing the Plain and Bay of "Sorrento" drawn by J. D Harding engraved by E. Goodall ca.1832 or 1844 Italy. With the title hand-written by the artist painted ca.1920-30s. PROVENANCE: Bookplate of Bernadine Murphy Donahue 1904-1968 a prominent California Catholic philanthropist who married Daniel Donahue in 1954 and established the Daniel Murphy Foundation in 1957 in memory of her father to promote Roman Catholic causes. "So helpful to the Church was the foundation that Pope John XXIII conferred on Bernardine the title of 'Papal Countess' the only title given to an American during his pontificate. Several years later Pope Paul VI conferred on Daniel the title 'Gentleman of His Holiness' the highest award bestowed on a layman in the Church and the first such Award ever given to an American. The Countess died unexpectedly in 1968" Burks. Burks Lisa. "Bernadine Murphy Donahue." Find A Grave Memorial #16920718 2006. J. Johnson, T. Payne, R. Faulder, G. Wilkie & J. Robinson, . . . 1809. hardcover books
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Fore edge painting HOWITT William 1792 1879.
Manuscript MS. Select Extracts MDCCCXXXIII. E.C.S. from The Book of The Seasons.
England: 1833. 1833. 8vo. vi 475 iii pp. 9 decorative end pieces or illustrations a few of the illustrations are labelled: ". . . near Vienne" "Mont Blanc" "Roche Don at Avignon.". Original full burgundy morocco single gilt ruled covers raised bands gilt-spine "M.S."; heavily rubbed spine joint torn or weak. Good. With fore edge painting by the "Dover" painter Marks & Co. ca. 1928 entitled "Summer" clearly this artist's handwriting depicting two men and one woman harvesting hay in the countryside two lovers are walking arm and arm in period costume. Delicately painted. "In 1831 William Howitt produced a work resulting naturally from his habits of observation and his genuine love of nature. It was a history of the changes in the face of the outside world in the different months of the year and was entitled The Book of the Seasons or the Calendar of Nature 1831." Of this work William Hone writes ". . . it is a volume of delight to lovers of nature . . . " – see: Hone The Year Book of Daily Recreation & Information: Concerning Remarkable Men . . . London 1832. The most striking element of this unusual book is that it is written entirely in manuscript from cover to cover with an extremely neat hand. There is no indication who wrote the beautiful calligraphy for this volume which is dedicated by the author to Mrs. J.E. Carr. 1833. hardcover books
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Fore Edge Painting Junius pseud..
Junius. Stat Nominis Umbra.
London:: Printed by T. Bensley 1796-1797. 1796. Two volumes. 8vo. xl iv 325; iv 366 pp. Engraved half-titles 16 engraved plates index. Twentieth century full navy blue straight-grained morocco gilt rules five raised bands with gilt compartments a.e.g. for H. Sotheran & Co. London; a tad rubbed. Near fine. The TWO FORE-EDGE PAINTINGS by CLARE BOOKSBANK signed. The scene on volume I is possibly a view of King George III and the House of Parliament; on volume II Westminster from the Thames River. The identity of Junius is open to question and debate and may never be finally resolved unless documents are found which establish his identity. On the other hand scholars now generally support the identification with Sir Philip Francis. "The case for Philip Francis first proposed by John Taylor in 1816 has established itself as by far the most probable though categorical proof is still not forthcoming" DNB. The Letters of Junius were the official letters that Junius collected refined and published in 1772. The 16 engraved portrait plates depicting famous political figures: 8 Marquis of Granby Duke of Grafton Marquis of Rockingham Judge Blackstone Right Honorable James Grenville Duke of Bedford Sir William Draper King George III; 8 Lord North Lord Bute John Horne Took Earl of Chatham John Wilkes Right Honorable Edmund Burke Earl of Mansfield Earl Camden 8. Printed by T. Bensley, 1796-1797. hardcover books
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Fore edge Painting LONGFELLOW Henry Wadsworth 1807 1882.
The Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Illustrated with one hundred and eighty designs by Sir John Gilbert R.A. engraved by the brothers Dalziel. Author's edition.
London:: George Routledge & Sons 1877. 1877. 8vo. iv 644 pp. Endleaves are foxed otherwise internally clean. Original full red crushed blind- and gilt-stamped morocco all edges gilt BOUND BY RAMAGE London. The binding is signed by the binder on the front lower dentelle. Very good. WITH A "SPLIT-DOUBLE" FORE-EDGE PAINTING OF BUFFALO HUNTING SCENES AFTER GEORGE CATLIN SHOWING AN AMERICAN INDIAN ON HORSEBACK HUNTING A BUFFALO; THE SECOND SCENE SIMILAR COULD BY AFTER CATLIN AS WELL THIS TIME WITH 3 MEN ON HORSEBACK RIFLES IN HAND ATTACKING A BUFFALO/BISON THAT IS ALSO HARMING THEM. The scenes are painted by Don Noble not signed as usual. This copy appears to have passed through Harrington's ca.1990-3. PROVENANCE: Calling card of George Booth Beamsley Hall Bolton Abbey Yorkshire inscribed to Miss. H. M. Coutin cousin 1933. kmw George Routledge & Sons, 1877. unknown books
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Fore edge Painting MACAULAY Thomas Babington Lord 1800 1859.
Critical and Historical Essays; contributed to the Edinburgh Review. A new edition.
London:: Longmans Green Reader and Dyer 1883. 1883. Small 8vo. vi 2 855 1 pp. Original full blind- and gilt-stamped maroon morocco all edges gilt. Student's prize from King's College London to C. F. Felix Sladz inscribed by C. W. Browne M.A. 1891 as recognition for being "Headmaster's Monitor". Additionally signed Felix Sladz. With a handsomely painted fore-edge painting "after Rowlandson" of a landscape a somewhat rural scene showing a fishing at a river with 2 or 3 domiciles in the background. Well-painted for Harrington's late 1990s. kmw Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, 1883. unknown books
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Fore edge Painting Manuscript sketch book Joseph Riedl publisher.
Erinnerungsblatter der Freundschaft.
Vienna:: Joseph Riedl ca.1828. "Reminders of friendship" is a guest book for collecting manuscript memories. 1828. Oblong small 8vo. 56 leaves. Sketch-book largely with blank leaves: Title-page wood engraving verse leaf and following are 3 ink drawings: I dog; II bucolic scene with base of ruins 7 leaves of manuscript verses or notes written in German verse with penned name of Fr. Gelner 1829; III bucolic scene with a nude figure and what appears to be either an odd monument or a cooking structure or an odd chemical processor dated 1815. One of the leaves of verse has the penned name of Therese Koppa another shows the name of Bern Koppa. Original full elaborately gilt-stamped maroon morocco all edges gilt marbled endleaves. A handsome sketch book or memory book. From the library of Phoebe Jane Easton. Very good. PANORAMIC FORE-EDGE PAINTING BY 'STEVENS' – ON THIS MANUSCRIPT ALBUM. When fanning the edges of this little book one sees the hidden PANORAMIC watercolor painting applied ca. 1950s by "Stevens" the prolific post WWII British fore-edge painter. In this case his painting is applied to a charming memory or friendship album. See: L. Jeff Weber Annotated Dictionary of Fore-edge Painting Artist & Binders pp. 244-246. Joseph Riedl, ca.1828. ["Reminders of friendship" is a guest book for collecting manuscript memories]. unknown books
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Fore edge Painting MILTON John; James THOMSON; Edward YOUNG.
The Poetical Works of John Milton James Thomson and Edward Young. Edited by the Revd. H. F. Cary. With a biographical notice of each author.
London:: William Smith 1841. 1841. 8vo. xviii 236 pp. Engraved half-title; occasional light foxing. Original deep purple blind- and gilt-stamped morocco all edges gilt. Bookplate of Olive Virginia Goodwin. With a fore-edge painting of Thomson Cottage James Thomson's home and Kew Foot Lane Richmond painted ca 1920-30s by the "Dover" artist probably working for Marks & Company London. PROVENANCE: Olive Virginia Goodwin related to Los Angeles urologist Willard Elmer Goodwin MD his mother 1915-1998. Willard Goodwin 1882-1967 the father of W.E.G. married Olive Virginia Belt thus related to Elmer Belt 1893-1980. kmw William Smith, 1841. unknown books
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Fore Edge Painting PERCY Thomas.
Reliques of Ancient English Poetry consisting of old heroic ballads song etc. A new edition edited by Edward Walford M.A. with a glossary and life. Portrait and original illustrations.
London:: Frederick Warne and co. 1880. 1880. At head of title: The Lansdowne Poets. Small 8vo. 438 pp. Engraved illus. Original full green blind and gilt-stamped calf spine gilt maroon leather spine label a.e.g. School prize award mounted on front pastedown 1882. With a fine fore-edge painting showing The Tower of London and Mint from Tower Hill 1842 after Thomas Shotter Boys English engraver 1803-1874. Painted circa 1970s by Don Noble unsigned. See: Weber Jeff Annotated Dictionary pp. 214-6 Noble fl. 1965-2000. Frederick Warne and co., (1880). hardcover books
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Fore Edge Painting PETRARCH Francesco 1304 1374.
Le Rime di Messer F. Petrarca. Le Stanze e l'Orfeo del Poliziano con note di diversi.
Parigi:: Presso Baudry 1836. 1836. 2 volumes in 1. Sm. 8vo. xxx 2 442 2; iv 288 2 pp. Frontispiece portrait 2 half-titles; light foxing. Original full green straight-grain gilt-stamped morocco a.e.g.; rubbed Early ownership inscription 1839. Bookplate with signature of Edward Thomas King. With a beautiful scene painted by Don Noble unsigned of Tivoli Italy. Presso Baudry, 1836. unknown books
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Fore edge Painting PORTA Petro Dominico Rosio de Peter Dominic Rosi da Porta.
Historia Reformationis Ecclesiarum Raeticarum: Ex Genuinis Fontibus et Adhuc Maximam Partem Numquam Impressis Sine Partium Studio Deducta . . .
Curiae Raetorum et Lindaviae:: Jacobi Otto 1772-77. 1772. 2 volumes 3 parts. Small 4to. 60 261 1 658 20; x 668 16 pp. Engraved folding copper-plate facing II p. 657 incl. "Representation du Beau Bourg de Plours ou Plrurs en Grissons et de sa Ruine Terrible arrive en 1618" index. Original full mottled-calf raised bands elaborately gilt-stamped compartments red gilt-stamped spine labels THIS COPY BEING SPECIAL FOR ITS EDGES ARE EMBELLISHED IN A DELUXE FORM FOR A WEALTHY PATRON BEING ALL EDGES GILT ORNATELY GAUFFERED WITH EACH SIDE SHOWING A WIDE OVAL NON-GILT PART OF THE EDGE AND IN ITS PLACE IS AN ITALIAN-STYLE PASTE-PAPER MARBLING EMBELLISHING ALL SIX EDGES THE TWO VOLUMES; vol. II joints partly cracked corners showing both vols. Generally a very good set. "The Historia Reformationis Raeticarum Ecclesiarum by R. a Porta has furnished me with a number of important facts respecting Italian refugees." – Thomas M'Crie History of the progress and suppression of the Reformation in Italy in the 16th century Edinburgh 1827. WITH TWO FORE-EDGE PAINTINGS ADDED TO THE VOLUMES PAINTED BY "STEVENS" OF SALISBURY CATHEDRAL AND WORCESTER CATHEDRAL. See: Quaritch A General Catalogue of Books: Offered to the Public at the Affixed Prices London 1874 p. 148 item 1280. Mentions that the plates are "scarce". Noting further that volume I was also printed in 1771 Impensis Societatis Typographicae. kMW Jacobi Otto, 1772-77. hardcover books
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Fore edge Painting ROGERS Samuel 1863 1855.
Italy a Poem.
London:: Edward Moxon 1842. 1842. 8vo. vii 320 pp. Numerous engraved illus.; lacking frontispiece portrait. Original full maroon blind- and gilt-stamped morocco raised bands gilt compartments all edges gilt. Bookplate of Oscar Ehrhardt Lancaster fore-edge painting collector. With a fore-edge painting of "Sadler's Wells Theater" London ca.1813 after Thomas Hosmer Shepherd 1792-1864; engraved by J. Garner 1830. This is a "modern" painting 20th century. Edward Moxon, 1842. hardcover books
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Fore edge Painting ROGERS Samuel 1863 1855.
Poems.
London:: Printed for T. Cadell; and E. Moxon 1834. 1834. 8vo. vii 284 pp. Engravings throughout. Bound ca. 1890/1905 in full olive brown crushed morocco gilt corner decorations dentelles a.e.g. marbled endleaves. Bookplates of Alfred Trapnell and Oscar Ehrhardt Lancaster both owned fore-edge paintings. Very good. With a vertical fore-edge painting of a large urn or vase with a plant. The painting is not signed or dated. PROVENANCE: Alfred Trapnell bookplate his library sold in NY ca. 1910 "998" label. The fore-edge was painted before Trapnell bought the book as there was another ROGERS in the Phoebe Jane Easton collection that was a clear companion to this volume also with Trapnell's bookplate. Alfred Trapnell was a famous collector of porcelains. kmw Printed for T. Cadell; and E. Moxon, 1834. unknown books
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Fore Edge Painting ROGERS Samuel.
Italy a poem.
London:: Printed for T. Cadell; and E. Moxon 1830. 1830. 8vo. vii 284 pp. Bound ca. 1890/1905 in full olive brown crushed morocco gilt corner decorations dentelles a.e.g. marbled endleaves; p. 273/4 torn and mended. Alfred Trapnell bookplate. Very good. With a vertical fore-edge painting of a large urn or vase with a plant. The painting is not signed or dated. The view is suggestive of three urns that decorate the text of this volume but it is not a copy of them. Alfred Trapnell bookplate his library sold in NY ca. 1910 "997" label. Was the fore-edge painted before Trapnell bought the book or after Alfred Trapnell was a famous collector of porcelains. From the Phoebe Easton collection of fore-edge paintings. Printed for T. Cadell; and E. Moxon, 1830. unknown books
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Fore Edge Painting ROGERS Samuel.
The Poetical Works.
London:: Edward Moxon 1848. 1848. 12mo. xi 377 pp. Half-title index. Original full maroon morocco gilt-stamped gilt spine a.e.g.; corners worn else very good. Earlier unrelated ownership inscription 1848. Bookplates of Edward Laurence Doheny and Carrie Estelle Doheny. With a fine fore-edge painting by the "Dover Painter" ca. 1920s of "The ruins of the Villa Maecenas at Tivoli." The title label inscribed by the artist. The "Dover Painter" worked for Marks & Co. and became the backbone of the Doheny collection with about half of her collection being specimens from this artist. Edward Moxon, 1848. unknown books
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Fore Edge Painting SCOTT Sir Walter 1771 1832.
The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott Bart. Including . . . With a memoir of the author. Illustrated by engravings.
Edinburgh:: Adam and Charles Black 1857. 1857. Small 8vo. 746 1 pp. Engraved frontispiece portrait of the author with his favorite wolfhound "Maida" by John Horsburgh after the painting by Sir John Watson Gordon Scottish painter 1788-1864 engraved half-title by W. Allan & T. Dobbie engraved plates. Original full red morocco tooled in gilt gilt spine a.e.g. Ownership inscription of Ellen Davis Browell October 1859. Fine. With a beautiful fore-edge painting by Martin Frost of "Abbotsford" and an oval inset portrait of Sir Walter Scott signed by Frost with his initials on the outer left margin. Abbotsford was the home of Sir Walter Scott. Painted by Martin Frost in 1986. See: Weber Jeff Annotated Dictionary pp. 151-3 Frost fl. 1973-2018. Adam and Charles Black, 1857. unknown books
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Fore Edge Painting Scott Walter
The Lady of the Lake a Poem
Edinburgh: John Ballantyne; London: Longman Hurst Rees Orme and Brown and W. Miller 1810. 8vo.10 433 pp. Half-title. Somewhat later black straight-grain morocco gilt and marbled endpapers gilt title on spine dull a.e.g.; some scattered foxing and spots in margins of text; cracking along the spine and its extremities and splitting along the rear leather joint and corresponding hinge. Eighth edition. The gilt edges conceal a contemporary double fore-edge painting each with an ink manuscript identification at the edge of the endpaper just above the painting: 1 "Rodmarton Place Gloucestershire" the country house and its outbuilding sitting amidst a grove of trees and 2 "Thornbury Castle Gloucestershire" the manor several employees and some farm animals also amidst a grove of trees. "Ainderby Teeple" possibly the binder blindstamped in the upper cover. <br/><br/> John Ballantyne; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, and W. Miller hardcover books
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Fore Edge Painting SCOTT Walter.
The Border Antiquities of England and Scotland; comprising specimens of architecture and sculpture and other vestiges of former ages accompanied by descriptions. Illustrations of remarkable incidents in border history and tradition and original poetry. vol. II.
London:: Printed for Longman Hurst Rees Orme and Brown . . . 1817. 1817. Volume II only. Small folio. 89-209; ci i xii pp. Numerous fine engraved plates. Original full crimson red straight-grained morocco gilt tooled covers gilt spine a.e.g. Unrelated broadsheet mounted to rear inside cover. Bookplate of Robert John Verney Lord Willoughby de Broke. Probably sold by Dawson's Book Shop. Signature and inscription of Gladys McKenney Molony to St. Mary-of-the-Woods College Library April 9 1976. Superb binding. With a fore-edge painting by the "Dover" painter of "Edinburgh from the Grass Market." Painted ca. 1926-28. Provenance I: Gladys McKenney Molony purchased this fore-edge painting in 1976 and presented it to her alma mater. The library subsequently sold much of her gift during the summer of 2007. II: Robert John Verney Lord Willoughby de Broke 1809-1862. Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, . . . 1817. unknown books
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Fore edge painting Sherer Joseph Moyle.
NOTES AND REFLECTIONS DURING A RAMBLE IN GERMANY. By the Author of 'Recollections of the Peninsula' 'Sketches in India' Scenes & Impressions in Egypt and Italy' and 'Story of a Life.' Second Edition.
London: Longman Rees Orme Brown and Green 1827. Second Edition. Hardcover. Good. Red morocco gilt binding rubbed and worn with rear board detached and front board starting. Contains a double fore-edge painting one a view of the Castle on the Rhine and the other of Oxfordshire with fishing scene. The book is inscribed in a contemporary hand to "J. L. Sealy from his affectionate friend T. W. Tindal." <br/><br/> Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green hardcover books
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Fore edge Painting SOUTHGATE Henry.
Many Thoughts of Many Minds; selections from the writings of the most celebrated authors from the earliest to the present time. Compiled and arranged by Henry Southgate. Fifteenth thousand.
London:: Charles Griffin 1867. 1867. 8vo. xxxviii 682 pp. Index to subjects. Original full brown morocco stamped in darker brown gilt corner devices four raised bands a.e.g.; light edge wear corners showing some scuffs to outer edges. Early ownership signature of Gerald Beach. With a fore-edge painting estimated date of painting: 1985 showing two trappers in the woods one holding a captured and killed ferret or similar creature. Painted by/for Harrington's London ca.1990s. Charles Griffin, 1867. hardcover books
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Fore Edge Painting THACKERAY William M. 1811 1863.
The four Georges.
London:: Smith Elder and Co. 1862. 1862. Half-title: The four Georges: sketches of manners morals court and town life. <br /><br /> Small 8vo. iv 226 2 pp. Original full turquoise blue crushed morocco raised bands all edges gilt by W. M. HOLLOWAY ca.1850-70 London; head and rear joint mended with kozo spine toned. Bookplates of Thomas Clarke Butler-Cole; Alfred C. Howell. Very good. First edition contained within four parts. With a lovely fore-edge painting ca. 1952 of a scene of Windsor Castle. PROVENANCE: Thomas Clarke Butler-Cole 1870-; Alfred C. Howell 1847-1928. See: Hover Caroline F. Aucassin et Nicolette the Alfred C. Howell collection: a bibliography. New York: Hover 1977. Smith, Elder and Co., 1862. hardcover books
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Fore edge Painting THOMSON James 1700 1748.
The Seasons and Castle of Indolence.
London:: William Pickering 1830. 1830. Small 8vo. cxxviii 292 pp. Frontis. portrait printer's device on title 5 chapter headings glossary. Original full dark green gilt-stamped morocco all edges gilt raised bands spine title and compartments bound by J. CARRS & CO. Glasgow. With a modern fore-edge painting of Kylemore Abbey County Galway. kmw William Pickering, 1830. hardcover books
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Fore Edge Painting WATTS I.
The Psalms of David Imitated in the language of the New Testament and applied to the Christian State and Worship.
London:: Printed for J. F. and C. Rivington . . . 1784. 1784. 16mo. 80 x 140 mm. viii 317 23 pp. Original full crimson turkey morocco with massed gilt stamping on both covers and spine all edges gilt two clasps black leather spine label; head of spine a bit chipped at corner clasps missing the movable element pages trimmed closely with occasional loss but a very good copy with a lovely period binding. Bookplate of Oscar Ehrhardt Lancaster. Very good. With a fore-edge painting of Richmond Bridge Surrey. Painted circa 1948-50 by Stevens. Printed for J. F. and C. Rivington . . . , 1784. hardcover books
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Fore edge Painting Young Edward
The Complaint; or Night Thoughts
London: Rivington 1813. Full straight-grained maroon full morocco binding with five raised bands and gilt lettering on spine marbled endpapers. Superb traditional style fore-edge painting showing a night rambler and his dog at a moonlit lake alongside ruins by preeminent fore-edge painter Martin Frost with his monogram and authentifcation ticket at front. Numerous excellent engraved plates. Slight foxing. An excellent early 19th century binding and an outstanding complementary fore-edge painting. In matching maroon cloth thumbhole slipcase. <br/><br/> Rivington hardcover books
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Fore Edge Painting ZIMMERMANN John George 1728 1795.
Solitude considered with respect to its influence upon the Mind and the Heart. Written originally in German . . . Translated from the French of J. B. Mercier. The third edition.
London:: Printed for C. Dilly in the Poultry 1794. 1794. 8vo. x 402 pp. Engraved frontispiece by Singleton. Modern full crushed chocolate brown Oasis morocco raised bands gilt spine title all edges gilt bound by David Weinstein. Two former ownership signatures. With a fine fore-edge painting hand painted by Martin Frost in 2006 depicting an eighteenth century scene of "St. Mary's Abbey York." Signed by the artist and with a presentation label describing the scene. See: Weber Jeff Annotated Dictionary pp. 151-3 Frost fl. 1973-2018. Printed for C. Dilly, in the Poultry, 1794. hardcover books
Référence libraire : FF159
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Fore Edge Painting. Rogers Samuel.
Poems and Jacqueline a Tale. Two works bound in one volume.
London: T. Cadell and W. Davis 1814. Hardcover. Fine condition. Bound in full green morocco with gilt tooling on front and back cover and on the spine. Gilt inner dentelles. All edges gilt. 240 plus 36 pages. 6 1//5 inches tall. Many vignette wood engravings. With a fore edge painting of a manor scene identified on the front free end paper in pencil as Newsparch Isle of Wight. A beautiful scene with remarkably rich color. <br/><br/> T. Cadell and W. Davis hardcover books
Référence libraire : 9026271
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Fore Edge Painting. Scott Sir Walter
The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott Bart. Notes and life of the author included.
London: Charles Daly n.d. Hardcover. Fine condition. Bound in full black pebbled morocco with elaborate stamping on front and back covers in gilt and in blind. Gilt inner dentelles. 564 pp. plus notes and advertisements in the rear. All edges gilt. A striking vertical fore edge painting of a golfer brightly dressed in a red coat and with a hat on his head. He's leaning on his driver while his caddy tees up his ball in the background. Great color great sky and an unusual and delightful work of art. <br/><br/> Charles Daly hardcover books
Référence libraire : 9026272
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Fore edge Painting. Signed Miss C. B. CURRIE CHARNWOOD Godfrey Benson 1st Baron Lord 1864 1945.
Abraham Lincoln.
London:: Constable & Company Ltd. 1916. 1916. Series: Makers of the nineteenth century edited by Basil Williams. Crown 8vo. viii 479 1 pp. Frontispiece portrait of Abraham Lincoln at Springfield index large folding map. Specially bound for Sotheran by Riviere & Son in full black gilt-stamped morocco all edges gilt; neatly rebacked preserving the original spine. Preserved with the original chemise and cloth slipcase with gilt-stamped calf spine label: "ABRAHAM LINCOLN - LORD CHARNWOOD - 1916 - FORE-EDGE PAINTING". This is also a very rare specimen with the original chemise and box extant. Provenance: ownership names of R. Joseph Rich Margaret Rich Carr; Joseph Sampsell Carr. Fine. WITH A FORE-EDGE PAINTING BY MS. C. B. CURRIE showing "a view of Harper's Ferry W. Virginia." "This is No. 145 of the Books with Fore-edge Paintings by Miss Currie. . . " Painted ca. 1928/9. See: Weber p. 341 #145 was previously unknown. Currie painted a scene of Harper's Ferry on the Life of John Brown See Weber A8 p. 348. SIGNED IN INK AT FOOT OF LIMITATION PAGE BY C. B. CURRIE. / In all about 172 Currie fore-edge painting were painted. Each is numbered in consecutive order with her known active period of painting fore-edges from c.1909/10-1929/33. All Currie fore-edge paintings are rare. / Miss Caroline Billin Curry aka "Miss. C.B. Currie" 1849-1940 was famous for painting both ivory miniatures and on fore-edge paintings exclusively for Sotheran's and strictly on Riviere bindings. Currie is important as being the only known artist to have signed all her work and numbered the pieces. She was highly touted in her lifetime as an artist who was singled-out for her skill and exquisite artistry that she thereby became the first artist so-named by Sotheran prominently in their catalogue series. Indeed she was a close associate and friend of the shop manager Mr. John Harrison Stonehouse and his wife Currie was named in their will. Even despite her prominence Currie's correct full name was a mystery until very recently. See Weber. This particular specimen was 1 previously unknown to myself 2 preserved the most-frequently missing chemise and 3 a clear provenance to this copy is noted the only one so located by myself. / PROVENANCE: Oddly this is the first known Currie fore-edge painting with provenance that is understood to be after the painting of the Harper's Ferry scene. The importance of that is the relationship of the ownership of a book to the date of the painting or otherwise owning a book before a fore-edge painting is applied to the book. In this case the ownership is surely after the work of Currie. Three persons' names are found in the volume: Joseph Sampsell Carr may have lived in Chicago Illinois. Margaret Rich Carr may have been Margaret Lee Smith Rich Carr 1917-1981 buried in Lubbock Lubbock County Texas. R. Joseph Rich may have been associated with Jefferson Medical College Hospital Philadelphia. REFERENCE: Jeff Weber Annotated Dictionary of Fore-edge Painting & Binders 2010. JWRB Constable & Company, Ltd., 1916. hardcover books
Référence libraire : FF2441
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Fore edge Painting: Eliot George pseud of Mary Ann Evans
THE WORKS OF GEORGE ELIOT THE LEGEND OF JUBAL AND OTHER POEMS OLD AND NEW
Edinburgh & London: William Blackwood & Sons 1879. vi303pp. Small octavo. Full olive green morocco a.e.g. spine and upper board lettered in gilt gilt decorated inner dentelles marbled endsheets. Joints and extremities rubbed but sound spine darkened a few scattered dust marks otherwise very good. A volume from the "Cabinet Edition" of Eliot's works with the engraved bookplate of Princess Helena third daughter of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert on the front pastedown. The volume is further embellished with a fore-edge painting in color identified as a view of the Acropolis from the west. The binding is signed in type at the lower edge of the verso of the front free endsheet by R. de Coverly the London binder under whom T.J. Cobden Sanderson and Charles McLeish the younger trained. William Blackwood & Sons unknown books
Référence libraire : WRCLIT84843
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FORE EDGE PAINTING; BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER
Book of Common Prayer The
Oxford: Printed at the Clarendon Press by J. Cooke and S. Collingwood 1820. With A Fore-Edge Scene of Oxford<br/><br/>FORE-EDGE PAINTING. CHURCH OF ENGLAND. The Book of Common Prayer And Administration of the Sacraments. And Other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church According to the Use of the United Church of England and Ireland; Together with the Psalter or Psalms of David Pointed as They are to be Sung or Said in Churches; and the Form and Manner of Making Ordaining and Consecrating of Bishops Priests and Deacons. Oxford: Printed at the Clarendon Press by J. Cooke and S. Collingwood 1820.<br/><br/>Bound with <br/><br/>BRADY Nicholas and Nahum Tate. A New Version of the Psalms of David Fitted to Tunes Used in Churches. Oxford: Printed at the Clarendon Press by Samuel Collinwood 1822.<br/><br/>Octavo 8 1/4 x 5 1/8 in; 210 x 130 mm. Unpaginated A-Rr8 Ss4; A-F8. Calendar and tables.<br/><br/>Contemporary full crimson straight-grain morocco with triple fillet border in blind and panel with large gilt corner-pieces of volutes curls and roundels enclosing a central masonic sunburst emblem in gilt with dove and Tetragrammaton to both covers. Heavily gilt tooled compartments and spine head and tail. Gilt rolls to edge corners. Gilt fillets to turn-ins. All edges gilt. With the crimson morocco bookplate of Christ's Church - Middlesex dated 1825. Housed in an early twentieth century red cloth slipcase.<br/><br/>With a splendid early twentieth century fore-edge painting by an unknown hand depicting Folly Bridge and Bacon's Tower at Oxford. <br/><br/>Folly Bridge is a stone bridge over the River Thames carrying the Abingdon Road south from the center of Oxford England. It was erected 1825-27 to designs of a little-known architect Ebenezer Perry died 1850 who practiced in London. The bridge is in two parts separated by an island. The origin of the name is uncertain although it has been suggested that it originated about 1650 after a tenant of Bacon's study. Oxford: Printed at the Clarendon Press by J. Cooke and S. Collingwood, 1820 unknown books
Référence libraire : 02226
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Fore edge painting; Church of England
The Book of Common Prayer and Administration of the Sacraments.
Oxford:: University Press 1853 1852. 1853. 12 cm. unpaginated. Original full chocolate brown blind- and gilt-stamped morocco all edges gilt with fore-edges protected by brass-edging and clasp verso of clasp states "DOWNES". Ownership inscriptions of J.C. McMullen to Stanley Herbert McMullen 1854 . . . and with love to Charles T. McMullen Xmas 1898 both predating the painting. Very good. With a fore-edge painting of a single full-bloomed rose with three buds surrounding 3 leaves and a spray of blue dots. There is no background. The painting is 20th century. / Bound together with N. Brady & N. Tate A NEW VERSION OF THE PSALMS OF DAVID fitted to the tunes used in Churches. Oxford 1852. University Press, 1853, 1852. unknown books
Référence libraire : FF2448
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fore edge painting; Gray Sir Thomas
The Poetical Works of Thomas Gray
London: William Pickering 1853. The Aldine Edition of the British Poets. Hardcover. Very Good. Ornately gilt-ruled red morocco gilt-stamped lettering and ornament in spine compartments 5 raised bands inside gilt dentelles a.e.g. with a fore-edge painting of a 19th-century cock fighting ring the "sport" was a favorite of Gray's; 16mo 100 x 160 mm; pp. xvi cxxiv 223. Just a little light scuffing at spine tips and along edges of boards. Internally bright and clean with handsome armorial bookplate Ex Libris John Train on front paste-down. A lavish copy. <br/><br/> William Pickering hardcover books
Référence libraire : D7142
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FORE EDGE PAINTING; RAMAGE binder; RUSKIN John
Sesame and Lilies: Three Lectures
London: George Allen 1900. A Wonderful Inlaid Binding by Ramage<br/>Adorned with a Double-Fore-Edge Painting of St. Paul's Cathedral and The Tower of London<br/><br/>FORE-EDGE PAINTING. RAMAGE binder. RUSKIN John. Sesame and Lillies: Three Lectures. Complete Edition. London: George Allen 1900. <br/><br/>With a superb contemporary 'double' detailed fore-edge painting depicting two fine and colorful views of London Bridge with St. Paul's Cathedral and The Tower of London as viewed from the south side of the River Thames. <br/><br/>Small octavo 7 1/8 x 4 3/4 inches; 181 x121 mm. xxxvi ii blank 1-228 pp. Pages 60-64 partially or wholly printed in red.<br/><br/>Bound ca 1900 by Ramage stamp-signed in gilt on lower front turn-in. Full dark green crushed levant morocco covers elaborately tooled with gilt lilies and inlaid red morocco hearts. Spine with five raised bands similarly decorated with gilt lilies and inlaid red morocco hearts lettered in gilt in compartments. Gilt-ruled board edges elaborate gilt turn-ins cream watered silk liners and end-leaves all edges gilt. Housed in a custom made felt-lined red morocco edged red cloth slipcase. The joints have been expertly and almost invisibly strengthened - still a wonderful example of an inlaid Ramage binding with a double-fore-edge painting.<br/><br/>The fore-edge paintings were most probably executed sometime between 1940 and 1960.<br/><br/>Born in London in 1836 John Ramage served an apprenticeship with John Wright then went to Paris where he was able to work with the distinguished Marcellin Lortic 1822-1892 who opened his shop on the Rue St. Honoré in 1840. In 1860 Ramage purchased the binding business of Alexander Banks Jr. in Edinburgh then returned three years later to London where he was in business at various locations into the 20th century. Though the range designs is broad Ramage bindings are celebrated for their remarkably delicate careful and elaborate gilt work.<br/><br/>John Ruskin 1819-1900 was known for his in-depth analysis of art his championing of J.M.W. Turner and multi-volume works on the subject. More than simply critiquing art Ruskin was keen to take on social issues as well particularly around the topic of domestic life and traditional gender roles. Sesame and Lilies first published in 1865 contains three such lectures: Of King's Treasures Of Queen's Gardens and The Mystery of Life and its Arts. It would become notorious in the late 20th century as a stock example of Victorian male chauvinism. In fact Ruskin was using the conventional construction of the feminine as pacific altruistic and uncompetitive to articulate yet another symbolic assertion of his anticapitalist social model. London: George Allen, 1900 unknown books
Référence libraire : 05051
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FORE EDGE PAINTING; SCOTT Sir Walter
The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott Bart
Edinburgh: Printed for Arch. Constable and Co. 1822. Two Fine Early-to-Mid Twentieth Century Fore-Edge Paintings<br/>Depicting Two Scottish Castles<br/><br/>FORE-EDGE PAINTING. SCOTT Sir Walter. The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott Bart. The Lady of the Lake & The Bridal of Triermain & Harold the Dauntless. Edinburgh: Printed for Arch. Constable and Co. <br/><br/>Each volume with a fine early-to-mid twentieth century fore-edge painting depicting Craigmillar Castle in Edinburgh and Loch Leven Castle.<br/><br/>Two octavo volumes 6 1/2 x 3 7/8 inches; 166 x 99 mm. iv 1-9 10-380; iii-vi 1-3 4-384 1 1 blank pp.<br/>Some light water-staining to preliminary and final leaves.<br/><br/>Full contemporary dark blue straight-grain morocco front and back covers with elaborate gilt vignette. Spines with four raised bands decoratively tooled and lettered in gilt in compartments decorative gilt turn-ins gray end-papers.<br/><br/>Volumes IV & V of The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott.<br/><br/>"The Scene from the following Poem is laid chiefly in the vicinity of Loch-Katrine in the Western Highlands of Perthshire. The time of Action includes Six Days and the transactions of each day occupy a Canto."<br/><br/>These two volumes were sold in 1965 by Dawson's Book Shop in Los Angeles Catalog 355 item 113.<br/><br/>Craigmillar Castle is a ruined medieval castle in Edinburgh Scotland. It is three miles 4.8Â km south-east of the city center on a low hill to the south of the modern suburb of Craigmillar. The Preston family of Craigmillar the local feudal barons began building the castle in the late 14th century and building works continued through the 15th and 16th centuries. In 1660 the castle was sold to Sir John Gilmour Lord President of the Court of Session who made further alterations. The Gilmours left Craigmillar in the 18th century and the castle fell into ruin. It is now in the care of Historic Environment Scotland as a scheduled monument. Craigmillar Castle is best known for its association with Mary Queen of Scots. Following an illness after the birth of her son the future James VI Mary arrived at Craigmillar on 20 November 1566 to convalesce. Before she left on 7 December 1566 a pact known as the "Craigmillar Bond" was made with or without her knowledge to dispose of her husband Henry Stuart Lord Darnley. Craigmillar is one of the best-preserved medieval castles in Scotland. The central tower house or keep is surrounded by a 15th-century courtyard wall with "particularly fine" defensive features. Within this are additional ranges and the whole is enclosed by an outer courtyard wall containing a chapel and a doocot<br/><br/>Loch Leven Castle is a ruined castle on an island in Loch Leven in the Perth and Kinross local authority area of Scotland. Possibly built around 1300 the castle was the location of military action during the Wars of Scottish Independence 1296-1357. In the latter part of the 14th century the castle was granted by his uncle to William Douglas 1st Earl of Douglas and remained in the Douglases' hands for the next 300 years. Mary Queen of Scots was imprisoned here in 1567-68 and forced to abdicate as queen before escaping with the help of her gaoler's family. In 1588 the Queen's gaoler inherited the title Earl of Morton and moved away from the castle. It was bought in 1675 by Sir William Bruce who used the castle as a focal point in his garden; it was never again used as a residence. Edinburgh: Printed for Arch. Constable and Co., 1822 unknown books
Référence libraire : 04889
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FORE-EDGE PAINTING. BALFOUR, Clara L, editor.
A Whisper to a Newly Married Pair from a Widowed Wife.
London: printed for Houlston and Stoneman 1850. Eighth edition. Engraved frontispiece of a perfect mother with 2 young children. Pp. viii 183. 16.5 x 10.7 cm. 8vo. contemporary tan russia elaborately stamped in gilt on both sides spine in compartments with raised bands wach panel with a detailed design second panel lettered in gilt all edges gilt with an erotic image of a young couple in bed on the fore-edge. Darkening and a little rubbing to the spine and edges.The fore-edge painting was probably done in the second half of the 20th century and compliments the subject matter of the book perfectly if rather graphically.<br>The book seems to be the usual plea for decorum and modesty from the wife and the joys of subservience to her husband and making a comfortable home. Erotic fore-edge painting - clearly a tip for newly weds printed for Houlston and Stoneman hardcover
Référence libraire : 12846
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FORE-EDGE PAINTING.; DOUBLE-LINE PAINTER; BIBLE IN ENGLISH
Book of Common Prayer The
Oxford: Printed by W. Jackson and A. Hamilton 1790. The Expulsion of Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden<br /> A Superb Fore-Edge Painting by the 'Double-Line Painter'<br /> <br /> FORE-EDGE PAINTING. DOUBLE-LINE PAINTER artist. BIBLE IN ENGLISH. The Book of Common Prayer And Administration of the Sacraments and other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church According to the Use of The Church of England: Together with the Psalter or Psalms of David… Oxford: Printed by W. Jackson and A. Hamilton 1790. <br /> <br /> With a very fine early twentieth century fore-edge painting by the "Double-Line Painter" depicting the Expulsion of Adam & Eve from the Garden of Eden.<br /> <br /> Large quarto 11 1/2 x 9 1/8 inches; 292 x 231 mm. 206 un-numbered leaves including title-page. Some occasional and very minor toning otherwise near fine.<br /> <br /> Full contemporary dark blue straight-grain morocco covers panelled in gilt with gilt corner fleurons. Smooth spine elaborately ruled decorated and lettered in gilt in compartments decorative gilt board-edges and turn-ins marbled endpapers all edges gilt. Silk ties missing otherwise near fine. Housed in an early twentieth century fleece-lined blue cloth slipcase spine lettered in gilt. <br /> <br /> Ink notation on front blank "Eugene Field/Chicago Dec. 6th. 1893". Ink notation on verso of rear blank leaf: This book came from the library/of my father Eugene Field./Nov 9-1931/ Eugene Field II."<br /> <br /> The "Double-Line Painter" was an English artist name unknown possibly active in the 1920s. The most identifiable feature of this artist's work is the label for the painting. The artist labels his own paintings on the the front fly-leaf. If you look carefully you will see a neat light penciled double-line above and below the written title like an architect would do. The painting title itself is also neatly written in tiny letters. This artist is highly skilled painter with high productivity." Jeff Weber. Annotated Dictionary of Fore-Edge Painting Artists & Binders pp. 95-96. Jeff Weber cites eight example of the "Double-Line" artist in his book on pp. 96-97.<br /> <br /> Provenance: Eugene Field Sr. 1893; Eugene Field II 1931; Swann Galleries April 18th 1991 lot 79 - Randall Moscovitz Oxford: Printed by W. Jackson and A. Hamilton, 1790 unknown
Référence libraire : 05158
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FORE-EDGE PAINTING; GAY, John; COLLINS, William
Fables
London: Printed for J. Sharpe 1824. 'The Entrance to Hyde Park'<br /> An Early-to-Mid Twentieth Century Fore-Edge Painting<br /> <br /> FORE-EDGE PAINTING. GAY John. Fables. London: Printed for J. Sharpe 1812 i.e. 1824. <br /> <br /> With an early to mid twentieth century fore-edge painting of the "Entrance to Hyde Park" by an unidentified artist.<br /> <br /> Volumes I & II of three bound in one. <br /> <br /> Sixteenmo 4 3/4 x 3 inches; 121 x 76 mm. Engraved frontispiece engraved general title-page iv 1-155 1 blank engraved frontispiece 1-142 pp. <br /> <br /> Bound ca. 1824 in full red straight grain morocco covers decoratively bordered in gilt and blind smooth spine decoratively tooled and lettered in gilt in compartments gilt board edges blind tooled turn-ins gray endpapers all edges gilt. <br /> <br /> Contents: Volume I The Fables of John Gay; Volume II The Poetical Works of John Gay volume I only. London: Printed for J. Sharpe, 1824 unknown
Référence libraire : 05177
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FORE-EDGE PAINTING.
Landscape Series of Poets. Gleanings From the Sacred Poets With Biographical Notices of the Authors. WITH A LOVELY FORE-EDGE PAINTING SHOWING POSSIBLY MOCCAS COURT.
Gall & Inglis. Edinburgh. No date c.1885. Gall & Inglis. Reprint. WITH BEAUTIFULLY BORDERED FORE-EDGE DISPLAYING MOCCAS COURT AND CHURCH. No date c.1885. Original decorated brown cloth gilt extra decorated in gilt to spine with coloured sunken floral embossed emblem to upper board. All edges gilt. Each page of text has a variety of coloured illustrated borders. Endpapers marked long prize presentation inscription ink blots to prelims title page and frontis. clean. generally a very clean and sound copy. hardcover
Référence libraire : 98024
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FORE-EDGE PAINTING; HAYWOOD, Helen, artist; JOHNSON, Samuel
Lives of the most Eminent English Poets: The
London: Printed for F.C. and J. Rivington; W. Nicol and Son… 1821. With Two Very Fine Fore-Edge Paintings by Helen R. Haywood<br /> Depicting the Homes of Abraham Cowley and Alexander Pope - Both with a Fine Portrait<br /> <br /> FORE-EDGE PAINTING. HAYWOOD Helen R. artist. JOHNSON Samuel. The Lives of the most eminent English Poets: with Critical Observations on their Works… A New Edition Corrected. In two volumes. London: Printed for F.C. and J. Rivington; W. Nicol and Son… 1821.<br /> <br /> With two very fine early twentieth century fore-edge paintings by Helen R. Haywood. The first volume with a fine view of Chertsey Bridge and with a portrait of Abraham Cowley on the left side; The second volume with a fine view of Alexander Pope's Villa Twickenham and with a portrait of Pope on the left-side.<br /> <br /> Two octavo volumes 8 3/8 x 5 1/8 inches; 212 x 130 mm. viii 1-446; iv 1-454 pp. <br /> <br /> Full contemporary dark blue calf covers elaborately decorated in gilt and blind spines with four shallow raised bands decoratively tooled and lettered in gilt in compartments decorative gilt board-edges and turn-ins red and blue marbled endpapers all edges gilt. Housed in an early blue cloth slipcase. Gilt on spines very slightly dulled otherwise near fine.<br /> <br /> These fore-edge paintings were done by Helen Haywood sometime between 1927 and 1940. Front flyleaf of volume one with "Cowley" and "Chertsey Bridge"; volume two with "Pope" and "Pope's Villa Twickenham" both in the hand of Helen Haywood. <br /> <br /> Helen R. Haywood 1908-1995 was an English writer and illustrator of children's books. She was born in England in 1908 but was taken as a child to Chile where her father an engineer worked on the trans-Andean railway. She remained in Chile until she was approximately 15 years old. Her experiences were recounted in an unpublished novel"Childhood in Chile." Miss Haywood was a keen student of science and an amateur naturalist and anthropologist. Many of the books she illustrated for the publisher Hutchinson & Co. London were keenly observed and scrupulously accurate depictions of plants birds and animals. When commissioned to do illustrations for a children's book on dinosaurs her research into the skin colors she subsequently chose for her dinosaur illustrations was cited by the Royal Academy of Sciences. Haywood was also a practitioner of the art of fore-edge painting. She became acquainted with the art form through an uncle who was associated with the Bayntun-Riviere Bindery of Bath. She did several fore-edge and double fore-edge paintings on commission every year from the 1930s to the 1970s for Inman's Books an antiquarian book dealer in New York City. She died in Bournemouth England in 1995.<br /> <br /> Abraham Cowley 1618-1667 was an English poet born in the City of London late in 1618. He was one of the leading English poets of the 17th century with 14 printings of his Works published between 1668 and 1721. Around 1663 Cowley obtained permission to retire into the country; and through his friend Lord St Albans he obtained a property near Chertsey where devoting himself to botany and books he lived in comparative solitude until his death.<br /> <br /> Alexander Pope 1688-1744 was a poet and satirist of the Augustan period and one of its greatest artistic exponents. Considered the foremost English poet of the early 18th century and a master of the heroic couplet he is best known for satirical and discursive poetry including The Rape of the Lock The Dunciad and An Essay on Criticism and for his translation of Homer. In 1719 he moved to Pope's Villa in Twickenham then a village west of London in Middlesex where he created gardens and an underground grotto. The house and grotto were topics of 18th- and 19th-century poetry and art. London: Printed for F.C. and J. Rivington; W. Nicol and Son…, 1821 unknown
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FORE-EDGE PAINTING; SCOTT, Sir Walter
Marmion: A Tale of Flodden Field…
Edinburgh: Archibald Constable and Company 1811. Day set on Norham's castled steep.<br /> And Tweed's fair river broad and deep… "<br /> Bound by Taylor & Hessey and with a Fine Fore-Edge Painting <br /> by the "Double-Line Painter"<br /> <br /> FORE-EDGE PAINTING. TAYLOR & HESSEY binder. DOUBLE-LINE PAINTER artist. SCOTT Sir Walter. Marmion: A Tale of Flodden Field… The eighth edition. Edinburgh: Archibald Constable and Company 1811. <br /> <br /> With a very fine early twentieth century fore-edge painting by the "Double-Line Painter" showing a view of Norham Castle in Northumberland depicting the opening lines of the poem.<br /> <br /> Octavo 8 1/4 x 5 1/4 inches; 210 x 133 mm. viii 1-377 1 blank i-cxxviii pp. Additional engraved vignette title-page and nine engraved plates. The title-page and plates with old water stain at top left corner some occasional and light spotting otherwise near fine.<br /> <br /> Handsomely bound ca. 1811 by Taylor and Hessey Booksellers London. Stamp-signed in gilt on the fore-edge of the front board "Bound by Taylor & Hessey". Full dark blue straight-grain morocco covers elaborately paneled in gilt spine with five raised bands three of them double elaborately decorated and lettered in gilt in compartments decorative gilt board-edges and turn-ins ochre watered silk liners and endleaves all edges gilt. With the engraved bookplate of Isabel Beckwith Closson on front blank. A lovely example.<br /> <br /> The "Double-Line Painter" was an English artist name unknown possibly active in the 1920s. The most identifiable feature of this artist's work is the label for the painting. The artist labels his own paintings on the the front fly-leaf. If you look carefully you will see a neat light penciled double-line above and below the written title like an architect would do. The painting title itself is also neatly written in tiny letters. This artist is highly skilled painter with high productivity." Jeff Weber. Annotated Dictionary of Fore-Edge Painting Artists & Binders pp. 95-96. Jeff Weber cites eight examples of the "Double-Line" artist in his book on pp. 96-97.<br /> <br /> 'Norham Castle' is in Northumberland England overlooking the River Tweed on the border between England and Scotland. In the nineteenth century Norham Castle became well known far and wide from the paintings of J. M. W. Turner. He first painted the castle in 1797 but returned to paint it many times.<br /> <br /> “Taylor & Hessey were busy throughout these fifteen years 1808-1823 not only in publishing and in binding but also in re-binding books published by others. They issued among other works Pope's translation of the Iliad and Thomson's Seasons; but they also put fine bindings upon books by Milton Crabbe Cowper Scott and others published by Johnson or by Sharpe or by Hatchard or by Reeves or by Longman… Taylor & Hessey usually bound their fine books in morocco—red blue brown crimson green—and "signed" their bindings by stamping their name in gilt in the fore-edge of the binding not the leaves note whenever the boards inside the leather were thick enough to carry the name of the firm… C.J. Weber Fore-Edge Painting pp. 106-7.<br /> <br /> Provenance: Isabel Beckwith Closson 1907-2004; Weber. 1001 Fore-Edge Paintings. Maine 1949. P. 152; Randall Moscovitz. Edinburgh: Archibald Constable and Company, 1811 unknown
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Fore-edge painting) Sherer, Joseph Moyle].
NOTES AND REFLECTIONS DURING A RAMBLE IN GERMANY. By the Author of 'Recollections of the Peninsula' 'Sketches in India' Scenes & Impressions in Egypt and Italy' and 'Story of a Life.' Second Edition.
London: Longman Rees Orme Brown and Green 1827. Second Edition. Hardcover. Good. Red morocco gilt binding rubbed and worn with rear board detached and front board starting. Contains a double fore-edge painting one a view of the Castle on the Rhine and the other of Oxfordshire with fishing scene. The book is inscribed in a contemporary hand to "J. L. Sealy from his affectionate friend T. W. Tindal." <br/><br/> Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green hardcover
Référence libraire : WB15033
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FORE-EDGE PAINTING; [EDWARDS OF HALIFAX, binder]; COWPER, William
Poems by William Cowper
London: Printed for J. Johnson and Co 1812. Two Superb Edwards of Halifax 'Etruscan' Bindings <br /> With Two Fine Early Twentieth Century Fore-Edge Paintings<br /> <br /> FORE-EDGE PAINTING. EDWARDS OF HALIFAX binder. COWPER William. Poems by William Cowper Of the Inner Tempe Esq. In Two Volumes. A New Edition. London: Printed for J. Johnson and Co. 1812.<br /> <br /> Each volume with a fine early twentieth century fore-edge painting most likely by Joseph Clayton Clark a.k.a. KYD.<br /> <br /> Two small octavo volumes 6 1/4 x 3 3/4 inches; 158 x 95 mm. 2 x 1-368; viii 1-368 pp. Each volume with a small typed label on the verso of the front free endpaper describing the fore-edge scene. Each volume with an ink inscription on the verso of the title-page presenting the book "To St. Mary of -the-Woods College from Gladys M. Moloney.<br /> <br /> Contemporary matching "Etruscan Calf" bindings by Edwards of Halifax each with a fore-edge painting. Covers with gilt pentaglyph and metope border stenciled frame of palmettes central panel enclosed by a stenciled border enclosed is a stenciled device of a fan–like shape with tulips on a pointillé background and other geometric shapes spine with five raised bands elaborately tooled in gilt in compartments two red morocco gilt lettered labels gilt board edges and turn ins marbled endpapers all edges gilt. Joints expertly and almost invisibly repaired. Housed in a specially made full red morocco vertical slipcase two spines with five raised bands decoratively ruled and lettered in gilt in compartments. The case is stamped in gilt "Made by Sangorski & Sutcliffe London England / For Marshall Field and Company."<br /> <br /> The superb fore-edge paintings were executed in the early twentieth century and are of the highest quality. They are possibly the work of Joseph Clayton Clark a.k.a. KYD. The paintings depict "Berkhampsted. Cowper's Birthplace" & "East Dereham Churchyard. Cowper's Burial Place"<br /> <br /> Two very Fine examples of Edwards of Halifax bindings with two exceptionally fine early twentieth century fore-edge paintings.<br /> <br /> Edwards of Halifax was distinguished English Yorkshire family of bookbinders and booksellers of whom William Halifax 1723-1808 and his son James 1756-1816 were the most famous. William Halifax was known for his revival of the fore-edge painting and Etruscan calf bindings the latter which if not evolved by William were successfully adopted by him. He also redeveloped the art of painting under transparent vellum. All three specialities seem to have been carried on both in the Edwards' home town of Halifax where Thomas 1762-1834 another son was in business until 1826 and in London where James and John 1785-c 1791 opened a book store in 1784. <br /> <br /> Gladys McKenney Molony 1907-1996. Born in Toledo Ohio she received her B.A. at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College in Terre Haute Indiana. In 1930 she married William R. Molony Jr. M.D. and moved to Los Angeles CA. She was a patroness of the Los Angeles Museum of Art and the Los Angeles Civic Light Opera. She donated her fine collection of Fore-Edge Paintings to Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College in 1967. A catalog of The Gladys McKenney Molony collection of fore-edge paintings in the Rare Book Room Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College Library was apparently issued in 1973.<br /> <br /> Provenance: William E. Henzel Chicago Ill; Valentine Miller; Mrs. Philip D. Sang; Gladys McKenney Molony presented to the Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College Library Indiana November 1986. London: Printed for J. Johnson and Co, 1812 unknown
Référence libraire : 06245
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FORE-EDGE PAINTING; TAYLOR & HESSEY, binders; COWPER, William
Poems by William Cowper
London: Printed for J. Johnson and Co. 1811. Bound by Taylor and Hessey<br /> With an Early Twentieth Century Fore-Edge Painting <br /> <br /> FORE-EDGE PAINTING. TAYLOR & HESSEY binder. COWPER William. Poems by William Cowper of the Inner Temple Esq. In two volumes. A New Edition. London: Printed for J. Johnson and Co. 1811. <br /> <br /> With an early twentieth century fore-edge painting by an unidentified artist showing a man and two ladies seated by a fireplace. The man is reading his newspaper and a dog is seated at his feet.<br /> <br /> Two octavo volumes bound in one 8 5/16 x 5 1/4 inches; 211 x 133 mm. i-xvi 1-438; i-vi 2 1-427 1 blank pp. <br /> <br /> Bound ca. 1811 by Taylor and Hessey Booksellers London. Stamp-signed in gilt on the fore-edges of the boards "Bound and Sold by" & "Taylor and Hessey". Full dark red straight-grain morocco covers elaborately paneled in gilt spine with three 'double' raised bands elaborately decorated and lettered in gilt in compartments decorative gilt board-edges and turn-ins later pink endpapers all edges gilt. Soundly but rather crudely rebacked with the original spine laid down.<br /> <br /> “Taylor & Hessey were busy throughout these fifteen years 1808-1823 not only in publishing and in binding but also in re-binding books published by others. They issued among other works Pope's translation of the Iliad and Thomson's Seasons; but they also put fine bindings upon books by Milton Crabbe Cowper Scott and others published by Johnson or by Sharpe or by Hatchard or by Reeves or by Longman… Taylor & Hessey usually bound their fine books in morocco—red blue brown crimson green—and "signed" their bindings by stamping their name in gilt in the fore-edge of the binding not the leaves note whenever the boards inside the leather were thick enough to carry the name of the firm… C.J. Weber Fore-Edge Painting pp. 106-7. London: Printed for J. Johnson and Co., 1811 unknown
Référence libraire : 05169
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FORE-EDGE PAINTING; HAYWOOD, Helen, artist; BURNS, Robert
Poetical Works of Robert Burns; The
London: Printed for John Bumpus Walker and Co.… 1822. With Two Very Fine Fore-Edge Paintings by Helen R. Haywood<br /> Depicting Burns Cottage with a Portrait of Robert Burns <br /> and a Fine View of the Bridges on the River Ayr<br /> <br /> FORE-EDGE PAINTING. HAYWOOD Helen artist. BURNS Robert. The Poetical Works of Robert Burns; Including the Pieces Published in his Correspondence and Reliques: With his Songs and Fragments. To which are prefixed a history of the poems by his brother Gilbert Burns and a sketch of his life. In two volumes. London: Printed for John Bumpus Walker and Co.… 1822. <br /> <br /> Two small octavo volumes 6 1/8 x 4 inches; 157 x 101 mm.i-xxx 1-268; i-xii 1-262 pp. <br /> <br /> Contemporary full dark blue straight-grain morocco covers elaborately decorated in gilt and blind spines with four shallow raised bands decoratively tooled and lettered in gilt in compartments decorative gilt board-edges and turn-ins pale blue endpapers all edges gilt. Housed in an early blue cloth slipcase. A fine pair of Helen Haywood Fore-Edge Paintings.<br /> <br /> With two very fine early twentieth century fore-edge paintings by Helen R. Haywood. The first volume with a fine view of Burns Cottage with a portrait of Robert Burns on the left side; The second volume with a fine view of Ayr River Bridges.<br /> <br /> These fore-edge paintings were done by Helen Haywood sometime between 1927 and 1940. Front flyleaf of volume one with "Burns" and "The Birthplace"; volume two with "Ayr" all in the hand of Helen Haywood. <br /> <br /> Helen R. Haywood 1908-1995 was an English writer and illustrator of children's books. She was born in England in 1908 but was taken as a child to Chile where her father an engineer worked on the trans-Andean railway. She remained in Chile until she was approximately 15 years old. Her experiences were recounted in an unpublished novel"Childhood in Chile." Miss Haywood was a keen student of science and an amateur naturalist and anthropologist. Many of the books she illustrated for the publisher Hutchinson & Co. London were keenly observed and scrupulously accurate depictions of plants birds and animals. When commissioned to do illustrations for a children's book on dinosaurs her research into the skin colors she subsequently chose for her dinosaur illustrations was cited by the Royal Academy of Sciences. Haywood was also a practitioner of the art of fore-edge painting. She became acquainted with the art form through an uncle who was associated with the Bayntun-Riviere Bindery of Bath. She did several fore-edge and double fore-edge paintings on commission every year from the 1930s to the 1970s for Inman's Books an antiquarian book dealer in New York City. She died in Bournemouth England in 1995.<br /> <br /> Provenance: Christie's New York December 8th 1989 lot 202 to Randal Moscovitz. London: Printed for John Bumpus, Walker and Co.…, 1822 unknown
Référence libraire : 05161
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FORE-EDGE PAINTING
The Book of Common Prayer.
London: Published for John Reeves Esq 1811. With a beautiful early fore-edge painting An attractively bound 19th-century Book of Common Prayer with a charming contemporary fore-edge painting of a Thames-side view depicting Blackfriar's Bridge and St Paul's Cathedral. Provenance: the Zion Research Library with their bookplate dated 1937. The library was a Protestant non-sectarian library based in Boston Massachusetts dedicated to the study of the Bible and the history of the Christian Church. Duodecimo 140 x 80 mm. Contemporary red morocco spine ruled and lettered in gilt boards and edges ruled in gilt turn-ins with gilt foliate design green coated endpapers edges gilt with contemporary fore-edge painting 2 silk bookmarkers. Housed in a custom red cloth chemise and red pull-off case. Recent pencil annotations to title page. Rubbing to spine ends and corners a couple of nicks to front free endpaper. A very good copy. hardcover
Référence libraire : 182444
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FORE-EDGE PAINTING - SCOTT, Sir Walter.
The Lay of the Last Minstrel.
London: printed for Longman Hurst Rees and Orme and A. Constable and Co. Edinburgh by James Ballantyne & co. Edinburgh 1806. Royal associations and vanishing paintings Early edition prettily bound by Queen Charlotte's bookbinder and with a modern double fore-edge painting by Martin Frost MBE who was listed in the 2019 New Years Honours for maintaining the "critically endangered" art. The fore-edge paintings depict two scenes of the work's setting of St Mary's Abbey Melrose and further scenes showing Scott's home of Abbortsford and Portinscale Bridge in the Lake District. The binder Charles Meyer d. 1809 was the appointed bookbinder of Queen Charlotte and the princesses. He moved from Germany to England in 1797 and established himself at St Martin's Lane London. Meyer bound this copy for the royal apothecary Everard Augustus Brande 1776-1868. Like his father Brande was the appointed "Apothecary to the Person" in George III's royal household tasked with dispensing medicines for George III and Queen Charlotte and tending to their health. Brande left the position on the king's death but was later reappointed by William IV. Brande's bookplate is on the front pastedown. This fourth edition follows the phenomenally successful first by one year. Octavo 213 x 128 mm. Contemporary green straight-grain morocco by Charles Meyer spine lettered in gilt and with central device in compartments covers bordered in gilt with fillets and wide roll board edges and turn-ins ruled in gilt brown coated endpapers binder's ticket on rear free endpaper verso. Gilt edges with gauffered border and double-sided colour fore-edge painting depicting four views by Martin Frost signed and dated 1977 on his authentication ticket on rear free endpaper recto. Housed in a green morocco folding box by Frost. Spine darkened gilt remaining bright tiny chip to headcap inner hinges split but firm 4 cm closed tear to head of rear free endpaper occasional browning but clean overall. A very good copy. Ramsden p. 106. unknown
Référence libraire : 175659
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