4th Aug, 2022 10:30

Books & Works on Paper

 
  Lot 132
 

Fore-edge paintings.

Virgil

Opera,

full brown straight grain morocco, gilt, preliminary leaves damp stained, front end-paper detached, a.e.g., with the bookplates of Estelle Doheny and Dorothy Shea, hidden under the gilt of the fore-edge, is a fine watercolour painting of The Coliseum from the Orts Farnese, 1826 § Vers De Societé, Historical Fragments, Sonnets etc., vol 2 only, full green morocco, gilt, joints starting to crack, rubbed, preliminary leaves damp stained, ., with the bookplates of Estelle Doheny and Dorothy Shea, hidden under the gilt of the fore-edge, is a fine watercolour painting of Cowper’s house at Weston, n.d. § Cowper (William) Poems, illustrated, full green strain grain morocco, gilt, with the bookplate Dorothy Shea, hidden under the gilt of the fore-edge, is a fine watercolour painting of Walnut Street Philadelphia, 1812 § Cowper (William) The Task, full straight grain Morocco, gilt, spine darkened, rubbed, hidden beneath the gilt of the fore-edge a watercolour painting of Cowpers house Weston, 1825, 8vo., (4)

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