Category: Fore-edge Painting

[Fore-edge Painting] Biblia Sacra Sive Testamentum Vetus ab im Tremellio et Fr. Junio ex Hebraeo Latine redditum et Testamentum Novum a Theod. Beza e Graeco in Latinum versum

Price: $1,000.00

Publisher: Amsterdam, Johannes Jacob Schipper : 1669

Seller ID: 003281

Condition: Very Good

Fore-edge painting of a tritych with the Madonna and infant Jesus at the center. 12mo. 15.5 by 10 cm. The contemporary calf is somewhat dry and crackled on the spine, with wear elsewhere, but still attractive. Small edge cut-out to a blank prelim page. Light scattered soiling but generally clean bible. The painting is discernible when the book is closed, although not nearly as sharp as when the pages are fanned.
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[Fore-edge Painting] The Holy Bible, Containing the Old and New Testaments: Translated Out of the Original Tongues. . . .

Price: $700.00

Publisher: Oxford, Samuel Collingwood and Co. for the University Press : 1836

Seller ID: 003283

Binding: Full Calf

Condition: Very Good

Fore-edge painting of a baroque painting of the Madonna and infant Jesus. 4to. 26 by 17 cm. 1232 pp. Scuffs and rubbing to the full morocco. Dryness to the spine. Clean within.
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[Fore-edge Painting] The Holy Bible, Containing the Old and New Testaments: Translated Out of the Original Tongues. . . . (Two volumes in one)

Price: $650.00

Publisher: London, George Eyre and Andrew Strahan. Sold by Longman Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown : 1820

Seller ID: 003284

Binding: Full Morocco

Condition: Very Good

Two vertical fore-edge religious paintings, one of the Madonna and infant Jesus, the other, an impaled Jesus. 12mo. 14 by 9 cm. 1119, 343 pp. Rubbing of joints and heavy wear of spine in particular. Blindstamped full morocco, with gilt decoration, still handsome. Light occasional foxing within.
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[Fore-edge Painting] Golden Leaves from the Works of the Poets and Painters

By: Bell, Robert, ed.

Price: $750.00

Publisher: London, Griffin, Bohn & Co. : 1863

Seller ID: 003278

Binding: Full Calf

Condition: Very Good

Fore-edge painting of a baroque era painting of musicians. 8vo. 23 by 17 cm. Decorative gilt foliage decoration on front cover, with some blindstamping to the morocco. Rubbing of the leather, especially the raised spine bands.
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[Fore-edge Painting] South London A New Edition with an Etching by Francis S. Walker, R.E. and 119 Illustrations

By: Besant, Walter

Price: $750.00

Publisher: London, Chatto & Windus : 1901

Seller ID: 003282

Binding: Full Morocco

Condition: Very Good

Fore-edge painting of Monkey Island, by Windsor, and Tample Island, Henley-on-Thames. (One image above the other.) 8vo. 22 by 15 cm. xii, 331 pp. Gilt decoration of a tower on front board. Some rubbing to the leather. Light occasional foxing within.
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[Fore-edge Painting] Shakespere: A Critical Study of His Mind and Art

By: Dowden, Edward

Price: $600.00

Publisher: London, Kegan Paul, Trench & Co. : 1886

Seller ID: 003289

Binding: Full Calf

Condition: Very Good Minus

Fore-edge painting of Anne Hathaway's cottage, and thus a fore-edge germane to the book's content. 8vo. 20 by 13 cm. xvii, [2], 434 pp. Moderate to heavy wear of full calf binding. Possible minor loss of lower part of fore-edge image. Clean within.
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[Fore-Edge Painting] The Shipwreck; and Other Poems

By: Falconer, William. Painting by Alfred Carter Needham.

Price: $450.00

Publisher: Chiswick -- London, C. Whittingham : 1821

Seller ID: 004131

Binding: Full Calf

Condition: Very Good Minus

Fore-edge painting of a square rig vessel and ancillary rowboats at sunrise by A. C. Needham. 12mo. 13 by 8 cm. Needham (1872-1952) was an American painter based in Boston and Manchester, Massachusetts known for his marine paintings and proficient in miniatures. Supposedly he was self-taught, at least in fore-edge painting technique, and he was believed to have executed between 35 and 40 fore-edge paintings. In an article he wrote about his artwork, he had a preference for painting things that had a close relationship to the subject of the book, as is the case with this fore-edge painting...
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[Fore-edge Painting] Guillaume Tell, ou, La Suisse Libre. Et Éliezer et Nefhthali

By: Florian [Jean-Pierre Claris de]

Price: $675.00

Publisher: London, Chez Whittaker & Co. : 1838

Seller ID: 005169

Binding: Full Morocco

Condition: Very Good

A fore-edge painting on a near miniature, and very thin, book. The fore-edge painting is of the Château de Jarnac, which is close to Paris. 16mo. 13 by 8 cm. 148 pp. The painting is a panorama of the chateau, a pretty stone bridge leading up to it and the surrounding parkland. Some of the detail of the painting is assuredly lost as it has faded over time and with use, but the painting nonetheless retains a fairly impressive level of detail given the thin text block the artist had to work with, and we would say that a fore-edge on such a thin volume qualifies as quite the novelty. The ...
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[Fore-edge Painting] Magna Charta Stories A New Edition with an Etching by Francis S. Walker, R.E. and 119 Illustrations

By: Gilman, Arthur, ed.

Price: $485.00

Publisher: London, Blackie & Son

Seller ID: 003293

Binding: Full Calf

Condition: Very Good

Fore-edge painting of a frieze of seraphs in a harvest celebration, and more specifically, celebrating the vine. N.d., circa 1900. 8vo. 17 by 12 cm. 192 pp. School prize, with certificate pasted onto FFEP. Moderate wear to the binding.
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[Fore-edge Painting] The Traveller, The Deserted Village, and Other Poems

By: Goldsmith, Oliver

Price: $600.00

Publisher: London, John Sharpe : 1822

Seller ID: 003277

Binding: Full Calf

Condition: Very Good

Fore-edge painting of a picturesque English village, suitable for the contents of this slim volume. 8vo. 12 by 8 cm. 154 pp. The painting is slightly faded. Light to moderate wear of the binding and the book proper.
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[Double Fore-Edge Painting] The Poetical Works of John Milton Printed from the Original Editions With a Life of the Author by A. Chalmers

By: Milton, John

Price: $1,500.00

Publisher: London, Bickers & Son : 1851

Seller ID: 006393

Binding: Full Morocco

Condition: Very Good

Unusual double fore-edge, with four roundel paintings depicting angels and scenes from the Garden of Eden and the Fall of Man, and thus germane to "Paradise Lost", contained within. 8vo. 22 by 14.5 cm. [ii], xxxi, [1], 1-270, [6], 271-687, [1] pp. The oval roundels are surrounded by a moire-like striping of purple to yellow gold that sets off the paintings wonderfully as well as complementing the marble endpapers. The paintings have a Baroque period quality, with some of the lineaments we might associate with Blake. Although unsigned, the paintings are of outstanding quality among fore-ed...
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[Fore-edge Painting] The Poetical Works of John Milton. Printed from the Original Editions with a Life of the Author by A. Chalmers A New Edition with an Etching by Francis S. Walker, R.E. and 119 Illustrations

By: Milton, John. Life by A. Chalmers

Price: $900.00

Publisher: London, Bickers and Son

Seller ID: 003286

Binding: Full Morocco

Condition: Very Good

Elaborate fore-edge painting with a medallion portrait of Milton flanked by view of his residence at Chalfont and of St. Giles Church Cripplegate wherein lies his tomb. N.d., circa 1870s. 8vo. 22 by 15 cm. xxxi, 687 pp. Lovely full red morocco binding by Bickers, with gilt decoration on the spine and board corners. Rubbing to the spine extremities and light wear to the binding elsewhere. Clean and tight.
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[Double Fore-edge Painting] Poems

By: Moultrie, John

Price: $1,350.00

Publisher: London, William Pickering : 1837

Seller ID: 002863

Binding: Full Morocco

Condition: Very Good

A double fore-edge painting, featuring Windsor Castle from the Thames and Eton College from the North Terrace of Windsor. 8vo. 16 by 10 cm, 6.5 by 4 inches. 357 pp. Gilt decoration on boards featuring a six lobed pattern with fleur-dy-lys highlights. Gilt turn-in borders. The leather is soiled and rubbed but still reasonably attractive. The fore-edge paintings are done properly, with no trace of the artwork when the pages are not fanned.
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[Fore-edge Painting] Poems by Sir Walter Scott, with illustrations by Keeley Halswelle

By: Scott, Sir Walter

Price: $675.00

Publisher: Edinburgh and London, William P. Nimmo; Frederick Warne & Co.

Seller ID: 003288

Binding: Full Morocco

Condition: Very Good

Fore-edge painting of a castle and gatehouse, evocative of the setting of many a Scott novel or poem. Initialed, it would appear, "JL". N.d., circa mid-19th century, with contemporary full red morocco binding. 8vo. 18 by 12 cm. xvi, 665 pp. Light rubbing of joints and wear besides. Clean within.
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[Fore-edge Painting] Talmon and Hadassah: A Tale of The First Captivity and Destruction of Jerusalem, Illustrative of God's Judgments on National Sin. Also, a Metrical Version of the Lamentations of Jeremiah

By: Slight, Henry Spencer

Price: $650.00

Publisher: London, Joseph Masters : 1848

Seller ID: 003285

Binding: Full Calf

Condition: Very Good

Fore-edge painting of the Holy Land, appropriate for the subject of the book. 8vo. 16 by 11 cm. xii, 439 pp. Rubbing and wear to the school award full calf binding.
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[Fore-Edge Painting] The Seasons; The Minstrel, and Other Poems; The Farmer's Boy; Sacred Dramas, The Search after Happiness, and Other Poems; Sonnets, and Other Poems; Triumphs Temper; and The Shipwreck (Six Volumes in Three, a Matching Set)

By: Thomson, James; James Beattie; Robert Bloomfield; Hannah More; Charlotte Smith; William Hayley, and William Falconer, respectively

Price: $1,250.00

Publisher: London, Jones & Co. : 1824-1826

Seller ID: 004141

Binding: Full Morocco

Condition: Very Good Minus

Fine fore-edge paintings in near miniature volumes! Paintings depict a fox hunt and two village scenes, one by a river front and bridge, the other by a commons. 16mo., 9.5 by 5. 5 cm. Each title has engraved frontis. Matching blindstamped and gilt dark green full morocco bindings. Heavily rubbed along joints, and other wear. Scattered foxing within. Fore-edge paintings crisp and bright.
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[Fore-Edge Painting][Extra-Illustrated] The History of the Isle of Wight

By: Worsley, Sir Richard (1751 - 1805)

Price: $2,500.00

Publisher: London, Printed by A. Hamilton for R. Dodsley, T. Cadell, G. Robinson, R. Faulder and G. Nicol; Collins and Co., Salisbury, Burdon, at Winchester : 1781

Seller ID: 007383

Binding: Full STraight-Grained Red Morocco

Condition: Very Good Plus

Fore-edge painting of Carisbrooke Castle, which is located on the Isle of Wight, in Newport, and is still standing, and very much a tourist destination. Illustrations include a large engraved folding map, hand-colored in its boundary outlines 31 engravings by Vivares, Godfrey and others, 19 of which are double paged, and 13 aquatint plates depicting churches, these rendered by Charles Tomkins. Folio, 31.5 by 25 cm. [12], 274, [8], clxii, [1] pp. The book was written by Worsley while he was governor of the Isle of Wight. Worsley was a serious antiquarian, and his home there, Appuldorcombe ...
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Category: Fore-edge Painting