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52 - Fore-Edge painting.- Bibles.- The Book of Common Prayer, and Administration of the Sacraments...,Âink inscription to front free endpaper, light foxing, hinges starting to crack, contemporary morocco with flap, closing tongue, and strap wrapping around the fore-edge, rubbed and slightly scuffed, g.e., contemporary fore-edge painting beneath the gilt of ascending Christ above trio of apostles, John Reeves, 1806. § The Book of Common Prayer...,Âilluminated chromolithographic frontispiece with circular portrait vignette, and additional illuminated title pages (1 loose), front free endpaper splitting at gutter, hinges starting to crack, near-contemporary morocco with ivorine boards, brass edges and brass clasp over fore-edge, upper cover with heightened monogram, g.e., double fore-edge painting beneath the gilt of Westminster Hall and Hemel Hempstead, Oxford University Press, 1865; and three others, all with fore-edge paintings, 8vo,Â(5).

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£300 (€359)

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Estimation

£400 - 600 (€470 - 720)

Sale fees

32.5%

Fore-Edge painting.- Bibles.- The Book of Common Prayer, and Administration of the Sacraments...,Âink inscription to front free endpaper, light foxing, hinges starting to crack, contemporary morocco with flap, closing tongue, and strap wrapping around the fore-edge, rubbed and slightly scuffed, g.e., contemporary fore-edge painting beneath the gilt of ascending Christ above trio of apostles, John Reeves, 1806. § The Book of Common Prayer...,Âilluminated chromolithographic frontispiece with circular portrait vignette, and additional illuminated title pages (1 loose), front free endpaper splitting at gutter, hinges starting to crack, near-contemporary morocco with ivorine boards, brass edges and brass clasp over fore-edge, upper cover with heightened monogram, g.e., double fore-edge painting beneath the gilt of Westminster Hall and Hemel Hempstead, Oxford University Press, 1865; and three others, all with fore-edge paintings, 8vo,Â(5).

Auction details

Books and Works on Paper
Thursday, October 29
01:00 PM
4 Ingate Pl, Nine Elms
SW8 3NS London, United Kingdom

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Forum Auctions +44 2 07 87 12 640 books@forumauctions.co.uk
On Drouot for 5 years avec More than 10,000 lots published

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