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137 - Fore-Edge painting.- Edwards of Halifax. Book of Common Prayer (The), various gift and ownership ink inscriptions to endpapers, ownership ink inscription to title page, light foxing and a few creases to corners, underpainted vellum by Edwards of Halifax, upper cover with two putti painting a monogram on a shield, the lower cover with a female classical figure holding a lamp, within Greek key borders, rubbed, gilt slightly faded, spine label rubbed, spine ends bumped, g.e., contemporary fore-edge painting beneath gilt of a village scene with a castle, Oxford, Clarendon Press, small 8vo, 95 x 60mm., 1785.
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Fore-Edge painting.- Edwards of Halifax. Book of Common Prayer (The), various gift and ownership ink inscriptions to endpapers, ownership ink inscription to title page, light foxing and a few creases to corners, underpainted vellum by Edwards of Halifax, upper cover with two putti painting a monogram on a shield, the lower cover with a female classical figure holding a lamp, within Greek key borders, rubbed, gilt slightly faded, spine label rubbed, spine ends bumped, g.e., contemporary fore-edge painting beneath gilt of a village scene with a castle, Oxford, Clarendon Press, small 8vo, 95 x 60mm., 1785. *** A nicely preserved example from the renowned Edwards of Halifax binders and fore-edge painters, featuring the typical Greek key boarder and using James Edwards's patented method for rendering vellum transparent, revealing the protected painted decoration on the underside. Edwards of Halifax was a famous 18th and early 19th century English family of bookbinders, publishers, and antiquarian booksellers founded by William Edwards (1723–1808) in Halifax, Yorkshire, and expanded by his sons, James and Richard.
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