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Item Details
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| Heading: |
(Fore-edge Paintings) |
| Author: |
Prior, Matthew |
| Title: |
The Poetical Works of Matthew Prior |
| Place: |
London |
| Publisher: |
Bell and Daldy |
| Date: |
1866 |
| Item # : |
167644 |
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| Sale Number |
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326 |
| Lot Number |
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84 |
| Sale Name |
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| Rare Books & Manuscripts |
| Sale Date |
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02/23/2006 |
| Price realized |
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$ 431 |
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| Description: |
| 2 volumes. lii, 263; viii, 328 pp. Volume I with steel-engraved frontispiece. 6½x4, uniformly bound in late nineteenth century dark blue morocco, spines tooled and lettered in gilt, inner gilt dentelles, all edges gilt; each volume with a fore-edge painting both showing a street scene, first at Charing Cross, London; second a Temple Bar from The Strand. “The Aldine Edition.” |
| Scenic fore-edge images from the mid to late nineteenth century at two historic and popular London street communities, both famous for publishing houses and bookstores. Nice colors and details in handsome bindings. Both with the bookplates of Robert Thornton and Edward Thomas King on the front endpapers. |
| Condition: |
| Spines and edges slightly faded and a bit rubbed; foxing chiefly to endpapers; near fine overall. |
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