[Fore-Edge Paintings, etc.]

Wordsworth (William) Poetical Works, 6 vol., full green morocco., gilt, a.e.g., bound by Riviere, with a watercolour painting hidden beneath the gilt on the fore-edge of each volume, a fine set, 1881 § Descamps (Jean Baptiste) La Vie Des Peintres Flamands, Allemands Et Hollandois, 4 vol., first edition, engravings, contemporary French full mottled calf, armorial gilt stamp to front covers, Charles-Antoine Jombart & Desaint & Saillant etc., Paris 1753 - 1763 § Cervantes (De Michel De) Don Quichotte De La Manche, 5 of 6 vols (lacking vol. 5), full green levant morocco by Riviere, gilt, t.e.g., other edges uncut, with the bookplate of Sir David Solomans, Paris, 1799, 8vo, v.s. (15)

*** The watercolour fore-edge paintings depict, vol I. A portrait of Wordsworth and a cottage labelled Cockermouth Cumberland, vol II. The Ferry on Windermere, vol III. The Vale of Keswick, vol IV. Buttermere Chapel, vol V. The Langdale Pike, & vol. VI Rydal Mount, with another portrait of an elderly Wordsworth portrait and cottage, paintings probably by the artist Martin Frost.