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View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$281.25StatusSold Heading(Fore-Edge Painting)Author[Bird, William]HeadlineWith fore-edge painting of Dodaridge heraldryPublisherPrinted for L. ChapmanDate Published1658 Lot #79 The Book of Common Prayer View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$281.25StatusSold Heading(Fore-Edge Painting)HeadlineWith color fore-edge painting of CambridgePublisherStereotyped and printed by R. WattsDate PublishedNo date [c. 1805] Lot #80 Emma de Lissau: A Narrative of Striking Vicissitudes and Peculiar Trials; with notes illustrative of the Manners and Customs of the Jews. View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$406.25StatusSold Heading(Fore-Edge Painting)Author[Bristow, Amelia]HeadlineWith fore-edge painting of JerusalemPublisherTilt and Bogue; T. StevensonDate Published[1841] Lot #81 Poems and Songs View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$343.75StatusSold Heading(Fore-Edge Painting)AuthorBurns, RobertHeadlineWith an erotic color fore-edge paintingPublisherWilliam P. NimmoDate Published[1868] Lot #82 The Poetical Works of Robert Burns View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$312.50StatusSold Heading(Fore-Edge Painting)AuthorBurns, RobertHeadlineWith fore-edge painting of Stevenson's RocketPublisherFrederick Warne and Co.Date PublishedNo date Lot #83 The Complete Works of C.S. Calverley View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$250StatusSold Heading(Fore-Edge Painting)AuthorCalverley, C.S.HeadlineWith fore-edge painting of a British frigatePublisherGeorge Bell and SonsDate Published1905 Lot #84 The Poetical Works View details Estimate$500 - $800StatusUnsold Heading(Fore-Edge Painting)AuthorCampbell, ThomasHeadlineWith color fore-edge painting of Fast CastlePublisherEdward MoxonDate Published[1848] Lot #85 From Crécy to Assye: Being Five Centuries of the Military History of England. View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$250StatusSold Heading(Fore-Edge Painting)AuthorClinton, H.R.HeadlineWith fore-edge painting of British warshipsPublisherFrederick Warne and Co.Date Published[ca. 1881] Lot #86 The Poetical Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$406.25StatusSold Heading(Fore-Edge Painting)AuthorColeridge, Samuel TaylorHeadlineWith a colorful nautical fore-edge paintingPublisherMacmillan and Co., LimitedDate Published1899 Lot #87 Democritus in London with the Mad Pranks and Comical Conceits of Motley and Robin Good-Fellow to Which are added Notes Festivous Etc. View details Estimate$400 - $600StatusUnsold Heading(Fore-Edge Painting)Author[Daniel, George]HeadlineWith fore-edge painting of St. Paul's cathedralPublisherWilliam PickeringDate Published1852 Lot #88 Three Charles Dickens novels with fore-edge paintings View details Estimate$700 - $1,000Sold for$1,250StatusSold Heading(Fore-Edge Painting)AuthorDickens, CharlesHeadlineThree Dickens novels with fore-edge paintingsPublisherChapman and HallDate Published[ca. 1860s] Lot #89 The English Version of the Polyglott Bible; Containing the Old and New Testaments: With a Copious and Original Selection of References to Parallel and Illustrative Passages... View details Estimate$700 - $1,000Sold for$500StatusSold Heading(Fore-Edge Painting)HeadlineWith fore-edge paintings of Moses and Noah's ArkPublisherPrinted for Samuel BagsterDate Published[ca. 1837] Lot #90 Thirty Years´ Correspondence, Between John Jebb, D.D. F.R.S. Bishop of Limerick, Ardfert, and Aghadoe, and Alexander Knox Esq. M.R.I.A. View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$593.75StatusSold Heading(Fore-Edge Painting)AuthorForster, Charles, editorHeadlineWith color fore-edge paintings of EnglandPublisherJames Duncan and John CochranDate Published[1834] Lot #91 Cranford View details Estimate$400 - $600StatusUnsold Heading(Fore-Edge Painting)AuthorGaskell, Elizabeth CleghornHeadlineWith color fore-edge painting of a ShipPublisherMacmillan and Co., LimitedDate Published1898 Lot #92 Quinti Horatii Flacci Opera View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Heading(Fore-Edge Painting)AuthorGesner, J.M., editorHeadlineWith fore-edge paintings of Badminton and StowePublisherHarding, Mavor, et LepardDate Published[1824] Lot #93 The Poetical Works of William Lisle Bowles... With Memoir, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes... View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$312.50StatusSold Heading(Fore-Edge Painting)AuthorGilfillan, George, editorHeadlineFore-edge paintings of early racing yachtsPublisherJames Nichol; James Nisbet and Co.; W. RobertsonDate Published[1855] Lot #94 The Life of Arthur Duke of Wellington View details Estimate$400 - $600StatusUnsold Heading(Fore-Edge Painting)AuthorGleig, G.R.HeadlineWith fore-edge painting of Wellington in uniformPublisherLongmans, Green, and Co.Date Published1877 Lot #95 The Vicar of Wakefield View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$250StatusSold Heading(Fore-Edge Painting)AuthorGoldsmith, OliverHeadlineWith a color fore-edge painting of steam shipPublisherCharles DalyDate PublishedNo date [ca. 1840] Lot #96 The Book of Gems: The Poets and Artists of Great Britain [&] Modern Poets and Artists of Great Britain View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$281.25StatusSold Heading(Fore-Edge Painting)AuthorHall, S.C., EditorHeadlineWith fore-edge painting of Bonchurch villagePublisherWhittaker and Co.Date Published1838 Lot #97 The Poetical Works of Mrs. Hemans View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Sold for$500StatusSold Heading(Fore-Edge Painting)AuthorHemans, FeliciaHeadlineErotic fore-edge painting of satyr and couplePublisherFrederick Warne and Co.Date Published[ca. 1875] Lot #98 The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood: Memoir, Explanatory Notes, &c. View details Estimate$600 - $900StatusUnsold Heading(Fore-Edge Painting)AuthorHood, ThomasHeadlineWith a fore-edge painting of riders and dogsPublisherFrederick Warne and Co.; Scribner, Welford and ArmstrongDate Published[ca. 1880] Lot #99 The Serious Poems of Thomas Hood. With a preface by Thomas Hood the Younger. View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$250StatusSold Heading(Fore-Edge Painting)AuthorHood, ThomasHeadlineWith fore-edge painting of Rome by N. BickerPublisherWard, Lock, & Co.Date Published[ca. 1876] Lot #100 The Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier, with Notes, Index of First Lines and Chronological List. View details Estimate$400 - $600StatusUnsold Heading(Fore-Edge Painting)AuthorHorder, W. Garrett, editorHeadlineWith fore-edge painting of ship City of MobilePublisherHenry FrowdeDate Published1910 Lot #101 Poems View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$531.25StatusSold Heading(Fore-Edge Painting)AuthorIngelow, JeanHeadlineWith an erotic fore-edge paintingPublisherLongman, Green, and Co.Date Published1872 Lot #102 Gleanings from the English Poets, Chaucer to Tennyson, with Biographical Notices of the Authors View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$281.25StatusSold Heading(Fore-Edge Painting)AuthorInglis, Robert, editorHeadlineWith color fore-edge painting of polo playersPublisherGall & Inglis; Houlston & WrightDate Published[ca. 1870] Lot #103 Oliver Goldsmith: A Biography View details Estimate$400 - $600StatusUnsold Heading(Fore-Edge Painting)AuthorIrving, WashingtonHeadlineFore-edge paintings of Goldsmith and DublinPublisherBell & DaldyDate Published1868 Lot #104 Female Piety: Or the Young Woman's Friend and Guide through Life to Immortality View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$500StatusSold Heading(Fore-Edge Painting)AuthorJames, John AngellHeadlineWith fore-edge paintings of woman and ChurchPublisherOliver & Boyd; Simpkin, Marshall, & Co.Date Published[1842] Lot #105 Memoirs of Early Italian Painters, and of the Progress of Painting in Italy. Cimabue to Bassano. View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$687.50StatusSold Heading(Fore-Edge Painting)AuthorJameson, Mrs., editorHeadlineWith fore-edge painting of Botticelli's VenusPublisherJohn MurrayDate Published1891 Lot #106 Histoire de Gil Blas de Santillane View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$250StatusSold Heading(Fore-Edge Painting)AuthorLe Sage, [Alain Rene]HeadlineWith a fore-edge painting Santillana del MarPublisherChez Lefèvre, ÉditeurDate Published1844 Lot #107 The Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow View details Estimate$700 - $1,000Sold for$437.50StatusSold Heading(Fore-Edge Painting)AuthorLongfellow, Henry WadsworthHeadlineWith an erotic color fore-edge paintingPublisherGall & InglisDate Published[ca. 1865-1898] Lot #108 The Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell. View details Estimate$400 - $600StatusUnsold Heading(Fore-Edge Painting)AuthorLowell, James RussellHeadlineWith a color fore-edge paintingPublisherWard, Lock, & Co.Date Published[ca. 1900] Lot #109 Sermons. View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$531.25StatusSold Heading(Fore-Edge Painting)AuthorM'Culloch, James M.HeadlineWith an erotic color fore-edge paintingPublisherWilliam Blackwood & SonsDate Published[1871] Lot #110 Critical and Historical Essays View details Estimate$400 - $600StatusUnsold Heading(Fore-Edge Painting)AuthorMacaulay, Thomas BabingtonHeadlineWith a fore-edge painting of a Holkham HallPublisherLongmans, Green, Reader, and DyerDate Published1874 Lot #111 Lays Of Ancient Rome with Ivry and the Armada View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$312.50StatusSold Heading(Fore-Edge Painting)AuthorMacaulay, Thomas BabingtonHeadlineWith color fore-edge painting of Ancient RomePublisherLongman, Green, Longman, Roberts & GreenDate Published1865 Lot #112 Lays Of Ancient Rome. View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$250StatusSold Heading(Fore-Edge Painting)AuthorMacaulay, Thomas BabingtonHeadlineWith a color fore-edge painting of RomePublisherLongmans, Green, Reader, & DyerDate Published[1867] Lot #113 "Bones and I;" Or, The Skeleton at Home View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$250StatusSold Heading(Fore-Edge Painting)AuthorMelville, G.J. WhyteHeadlineFore-edge painting of Rievaulx Abbey ruinsPublisherChapman and HallDate Published[ca. 1868] Lot #114 Milton's Paradise Lost. View details Estimate$500 - $800StatusUnsold Heading(Fore-Edge Painting)AuthorMilton, JohnHeadlineWith fore-edge painting of Battersea BridgePublisherT. Longman, B. Law, P. Dodsley et al.Date Published1795 Lot #115 Milton's Paradise Regained... View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$468.75StatusSold Heading(Fore-Edge Painting)AuthorMilton, JohnHeadlineWith a fore-edge painting of Cheyne WalkPublisherT. Longman, B. Law, P. Dodsley et al.Date Published1796 Lot #116 The Poetical Works of John Milton. View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Heading(Fore-Edge Painting)AuthorMilton, JohnHeadlineFore-edge painting of dismasted HMS JavaPublisherHumphrey Milford; Oxford University PressDate Published[1941] Lot #117 Irish Melodies View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$375StatusSold Heading(Fore-Edge Painting)AuthorMoore, ThomasHeadlineWith fore-edge painting of men stone throwingPublisherLongman, Orme, Brown, Green, and LongmansDate Published1838 Lot #118 Lalla Rookh, An Oriental Romance View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$343.75StatusSold Heading(Fore-Edge Painting)AuthorMoore, ThomasHeadlineWith fore-edge painting of Tower of LondonPublisherLongman, Brown, Green, Longmans & RobertsDate Published1858 Lot #119 The Romance of the Harem. View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$1,062.50StatusSold Heading(Fore-Edge Painting)AuthorPardoe, JuliaHeadlineWith three captioned fore-edge paintingsPublisherHenry ColburnDate Published1839 Lot #120 An Exposition of the Creed. View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$343.75StatusSold Heading(Fore-Edge Painting)AuthorPearson, JohnHeadlineWith fore-edge painting of English Whaling shipPublisherPrinted and sold by J.F. DoveDate Published[1832] Lot #121 A Sketch of the Life and Character of Sir Robert Peel View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$250StatusSold Heading(Fore-Edge Painting)AuthorPeel, LawrenceHeadlineFore-edge painting of Gainsborough Old HallPublisherLongman, Green, Longman, and RobertsDate Published1860 Lot #122 The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope. View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$312.50StatusSold Heading(Fore-Edge Painting)AuthorPope, AlexanderHeadlineWith fore-edge painting of Windsor CastlePublisherJames NicholDate Published[1856] Lot #123 Legends and Lyrics: A Book of Verses View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$250StatusSold Heading(Fore-Edge Painting)AuthorProcter, Adelaide AnneHeadlineFore-edge painting of railroad viaduct bridgePublisherGeorge Bell and SonsDate Published1888 Lot #124 Proper Lessons to be Read at Morning and Evening Prayer on the Sundays and other Holy-days throughout the Year [and] The Book of Common Prayer and Administration of the Sacraments... View details Estimate$600 - $900StatusUnsold Heading(Fore-Edge Painting)HeadlineWith fore-edge paintings of Basingwerk & ConwyPublisherPrinted at the University Press by S. Collingwood and Co.Date Published[1834] Lot #125 Rider's British Merlin: For the Year of Our Lord 1826. Being the Second After Bisextile. Adorned with many delightful and useful Verities... in the Islands of Great Britain's Monarchy. View details Estimate$400 - $600StatusUnsold Heading(Fore-Edge Painting)AuthorRider, Cardanus, compilerHeadlineWith fore-edge painting of an armored knightPublisherPrinted for the Company of StationersDate Published1826 Lot #126 The Pleasures of Memory with Other Poems View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$562.50StatusSold Heading(Fore-Edge Painting)AuthorRogers, SamuelHeadlineWith erotic pastoral fore-edge paintingPublisherCadell, Jun. and DaviesDate Published[1796] Lot #127 Memoirs and Correspondence of Admiral Lord de Saumarez. From Original Papers in Possession of the Family. View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$312.50StatusSold Heading(Fore-Edge Painting)AuthorRoss, John, editorHeadlineWith two color naval fore-edge paintingsPublisherRichard BentleyDate Published1838 Lot #128 The Works of Frederick Schiller. Historical Dramas, Etc. View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$250StatusSold Heading(Fore-Edge Painting)AuthorSchiller, FrederickHeadlineFore-edge painting of men practicing archeryPublisherHenry G. BohnDate Published1850 Lot #129 Marmion: A Tale of Flodden Field View details Estimate$500 - $800StatusUnsold Heading(Fore-Edge Painting)AuthorScott, Sir WalterHeadlineWith fore-edge painting of Norham CastlePublisherArchibald Constable and Company; William Miller and John MurrayDate Published1811 Lot #130 The Miscellaneous Prose Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. Containing Biographical Memoirs, Essays, Letters with Notes. View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$406.25StatusSold Heading(Fore-Edge Painting)AuthorScott, Sir WalterHeadlineWith fore-edge painting of Aberdeen, ScotlandPublisherRobert Cadell; Houlston & StonemanDate Published[1848] Lot #131 The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. Including his Great Metrical Romances, Copyright Lyrical Pieces, Miscellaneous Poems and Ballads. with a Memoir of the Author. View details Estimate$400 - $600StatusUnsold Heading(Fore-Edge Painting)AuthorScott, Sir WalterHeadlineWith fore-edge painting of Norham CastlePublisherAdam and Charles BlackDate Published[1861] Lot #132 The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott. View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$250StatusSold Heading(Fore-Edge Painting)AuthorScott, Sir WalterHeadlineFore-edge painting of men playing billiardsPublisherFrederick Warne and Co.Date Published[1887] Lot #133 Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border: Consisting of Historical and Romantic Ballad, Collected in the Southern Counties of Scotland; with a Few of Modern Date, Founded Upon Local Tradition. View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$468.75StatusSold Heading(Fore-Edge Painting)Author[Scott, Sir Walter]HeadlineWith 3 color fore-edge paintings of ScotlandPublisherPrinted by James Ballantyne and Co.; For Longman, Hurst et al.Date Published1812 Lot #134 The Lady of the Lake View details Estimate$500 - $800StatusUnsold Heading(Fore-Edge Painting)AuthorScott, WalterHeadlineLady of the Lake with fore-edge paintingPublisherAdam and Charles BlackDate Published1871 Lot #135 The Works of William Shakspere; Containing His Plays and Poems, From the text of the editions by Charles Knight... View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$343.75StatusSold Heading(Fore-Edge Painting)AuthorShakespeare, WilliamHeadlineWith F.E.P. of River Avon and Bath, EnglandPublisherCharles CoxDate Published1849 Lot #136 The Works of Laurence Sterne: Containing the Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gent. A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy, Sermons, Letters, &c. with A Life of the Author... View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$375StatusSold Heading(Fore-Edge Painting)AuthorSterne, LaurenceHeadlineWith fore-edge painting of carriage and ridersPublisherPrinted for Charles DalyDate Published1839 Lot #137 Stories from the History of Scotland, in the Manner of "Stories Selected from the History of England." View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$225StatusSold Heading(Fore-Edge Painting)AuthorStewart, AlexHeadlineFore-edge painting of the Scottish countrysidePublisherOliver & Boyd; Simpkin, Marshall, & Co.Date Published1837 Lot #138 Poetical Works of Alfred Lord Tennyson Poet Laureate View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$531.25StatusSold Heading(Fore-Edge Painting)AuthorTennyson, AlfredHeadlineWith fore-edge painting of woman tying corsetPublisherMacmillan and Co., LimitedDate Published1899 Lot #139 Vanity Fair. A Novel without a Hero View details Estimate$700 - $1,000Sold for$468.75StatusSold Heading(Fore-Edge Painting)AuthorThackeray, William MakepeaceHeadlineWith two color fore-edge paintings of BristolPublisherSmith, Elder, & Co.Date Published1879 Lot #140 The Natural History of the Bible View details Estimate$400 - $600StatusUnsold Heading(Fore-Edge Painting)AuthorTristram, H.B.HeadlineWith a charming fore-edge painting of DresdenPublisherSociety for Promoting Christian Knowledge; E. & J. B. Young & Co.Date Published1898 Lot #141 Treasures of Art in Great Britain: Being an Account of the Chief Collection of Paintings, Drawings, Sculptures, Illuminated Mss... View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$593.75StatusSold Heading(Fore-Edge Painting)AuthorWaagen, Gustav FriedrichHeadlineWith three different color fore-edge paintingsPublisherJohn MurrayDate Published1854 Lot #142 A Leaf in the Storm. A Novel of War-Swept China. View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$312.50StatusSold Heading(Fore-Edge Painting)AuthorYutang, LinHeadlineWith an erotic color fore-edge paintingPublisherWilliam Heinemann Ltd.Date Published[1942] Lot #212 The Koran; Commonly called the Alcoran of Mohammed; Translated from the Original Arabic. With Explanatory Notes, Taken from the Most Approved Commentators. To Which is Prefixed, a Preliminary Discourse View details Estimate$700 - $1,000Sold for$437.50StatusSold Heading(Zaehnsdorf)AuthorSale, George, translatorHeadlineGeorge Sale's Koran, bound by ZaehnsdorfPublisherFor J. Johnson, Vernor and Hood, et al.Date Published1801 Lot #301 La Vita Nuova (The New Life) View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Heading(Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, illustrator)AuthorDante AlighieriHeadlineLa Vita Nuova (The New Life) by Dante AlighieriPublisherGeorge Routledge & SonsDate Published[c.1900] Lot #391 The Tibetan Book of the Great Liberation View details Estimate$500 - $800StatusUnsold AuthorEvans-Wentz, W.Y.HeadlineTibetan Book of Great Liberation in EnglishPublisherOxford University PressDate Published1954 Lot #408 Abridged School and Family Bible in Hebrew and English. View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold AuthorLevinski, Jacob LeviHeadlineThe first abridged Hebrew Bible, 1872PublisherL. H. Frank & Co., Publishers & PrintersDate Published1871-1872 Lot #414 The Christian's Pattern: Or, A Treatise on the Imitation of Christ. View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$137.50StatusSold AuthorThomas à KempisHeadlineThomas a Kempis with illustrationsPublisherD. Browne, C. Hitch, et al.Date Published1759 Items per page 102550100 Previous|1|Next Previous 1 Next Previous 1 Next