Fore-Edge painting.- Cowper (William) The Poetical Works, 1857; and others with fore-edge paintings (4)

£600 · At auction with Forum Auctions

Fore-Edge painting.- Cowper (William) The Poetical Works, engraved frontispiece portrait and engraved vignette additional title, 6 engraved plates, tissue guards, light age toning, the odd spot, front hinge cracked, contemporary full morocco, Earl Cowper crest to boards, heavy rubbing to spine and joints, corners also rubbed, lower cover and spine detached, held together separate from contents, g.e., double fore-edge paintings beneath the gilt of Stonehenge and Lambeth Palace, both initialed 'AE', William Tegg & Co., 1857; and three others works of poetry by Cowper, all with fore-edge paintings, 8vo (4).

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