Fore-Edge painting.- Tennyson (Alfred, Lord) Tiresias, first edition, 1885; and others with fore-edge paintings, (5).

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Fore-Edge painting.- Tennyson (Alfred, Lord) Tiresias, first edition, foxing to pastedowns and endpapers, the odd spot throughout, contemporary morocco, rubbed and splitting to joints, light rubbing to extremities g.e., fore-edge painting beneath the gilt of a couple ice skating, Macmillan and Co., 1885 Arnold (Matthew) Selected Poems..., from the library of Sir Algernon West, with gift ink inscription to first free endpaper dated 1888, blind-stamp for Victor A. Harris, splitting at gutter, light browning, contemporary calf, covers detached from text block, upper cover coming away from spine, loss to spine ends, rubbing, g.e., double fore-edge painting beneath the gilt of country scenes of riders, the other a fishing scene, attributed to Samuel E. Stevens (ca. 1947-1967), Macmillan and Co., 1886; and 3 others, with fore-edge paintings, 8vo (5).

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