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Lot 130
[FORE-EDGE PAINTINGS] Elegant extracts from the most prose writers...; Elegant Epistles; being a copious selection of ins...
...; Elegant Epistles; being a copious selection of instructive, moral, and entertaining letters...; Elegant extracts from the most eminent British poets. London: John Sharpe, [circa 1825]. Eighteen volumes, bound in full period straight grained maroon morocco, full gilt covers and spines, all edges gilt, each volume with a fine single fore-edge of a view of a county town (Dorchester, Worcester, Stirling etc.). The collection is housed in a specially-made maroon morocco covered book case of the period, with glazed door, brass feet and handles, covered with leather gilt and tooled to match, lined with marbled paper, lettered along the door "Temple of the Muses," presumably after the building of that name that housed the establishment of the bookseller-publisher John Lackington. Bindings 5 1/8 x 3 3/8 (13 x 8.5 cm); the extraordinary case 15 x 13 3/4 at the base (41.5 x 35 cm); various paginations. A complete list of the fore-edge paintings is available upon application. Light wear to case, otherwise in an excellent state of preservation, very slight toning to the spines of the volumes. There is a lock, but the key is no longer present.
A magnificent presentation of a group of very well painted fore-edges, one of two such that we offer in this sale. The case appears to be absolutely contemporary with the bindings, a high-Victorian extravaganza.
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