Fore-Edge painting.- Ruskin (John) Unto This Last, 1896; and others with fore-edge paintings, (5).

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Fore-Edge painting.- Ruskin (John) Unto This Last, Four Essays on the First Principles of Political Economy, Kings College London prize bookplate dated 1898, light occasional foxing throughout, calf prize binding, rubbed to spine ends and lightly scuffed, g.e., fore-edge painting beneath the gilt of Eton College and Chapel, George Allen, 1896 Gullick (Thomas John), Painting Popularly Explained, engraved frontispiece, light damp staining and foxing mainly to first few ff., frontis and title, bookplate, first few ff. loose, front hinge starting to crack, morocco prize binding with VR [Victoria Regina] monogram to covers, awarded by the Science and Art Department of the Committee of Council on Education, heavy rubbing to spine, joints, and extremities, g.e., fore-edge painting beneath the gilt of Groome Court, Worcestershire, after Richard Wilson, Lockwood & Co.., 1864; and others, poetry, with fore-edge paintings, 8vo (5).

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