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[Fore-Edge Paintings]. Samuel Carter Hall, editor. The Book of Gems. The Poets and Artists of Great Britain. London: Sau... (Total: 3 Items)
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A superb Fazakerley bound set with fine fore-edge paintings
[Fore-Edge Paintings]. Samuel Carter Hall, editor. The
Book of Gems. The Poets and Artists of Great Britain. London:
Saunders and Otley, 1836-38.3 volumes, 8vo (212 x 134mm). Engraved titles with vignettes, and c.150 steel engravings. Maroon crushed levant morocco gilt, covers with gilt-ruled and onlaid blue morocco strip border, upper cover with yellow morocco onlays of three different blooming rose tools in two groups as matching climbing plants, the design set in Art Nouveau style, title in gilt on covers and dates, lower covers with similar but smaller design at center, spines in six compartments with five raised bands, similarly gilt-tooled and gilt-lettered; board edges gilt; turn-ins with gilt-ruled and onlaid blue morocco strip border; ivory watered silk linings; gilt and gauffered edges, EACH FORE-EDGE PAINTED WITH THREE DIFFERENT LANDSCAPE AND SEASCAPE VIGNETTE SCENES; turn-ins signed "Fazakerley, Liverpool." Housed together in a custom morocco-backed folding case with onlaid borders sympathetic to the bindings.
A popular anthology of British poetry, in morocco bindings with fine fore-edge paintings. This three-volume anthology covers five hundred years of English poetry, from Chaucer, Spenser, Donne, and Shakespeare to Dryden, Pope, Cowper, Chatterton, and Burns, and other early 19th-century poets like Wordsworth, Byron, Shelley, Coleridge, and Bayly. Brief biographical sketches and facsimiles of poet's autographs are also included, as well as some 150 steel-engraved portraits by F. W. Topham, W. Chevalier, W. Finden, and many others, after paintings and designs by numerous English artists, including Turner, Bonington, Landseer, and Maclise.
Condition: Touch of rubbing to extremities.
Provenance: Lily Safra (purchased at Christie's New York, 17 December 1983, lot 557); Mr. and Mrs. John H. Gutfreund (gift note presenting the volumes from Lily Safra to Susan and John Gutfreund laid in; sold Christie's New York, 29 January 2021, lot 37).
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2024 July 25 Historical Platinum Signature® Auction #6294 (go to Auction Home page)
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