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Sale 247: Fine & Rare Books (#247) 09/12/2002 1:00 PM PDT Closed
Starts Ending 09/12/2002 1:00 PM PDT

Lot #63 Italy, A Poem

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Lot closed - Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium):$1,375

Estimate: $1,000 - $1,500

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Description

Heading:

(Fore-edge Painting - Double)

Title:

Italy, A Poem

Author:

Rogers, Samuel

Place Published:

London

Publisher:

T. Cadell, et al.

Date Published:

1830

Description:

vii, [1], 284 pp. With steel-engravings after Stothard, Turner & others. 8x5¼, period full brown morocco tooled in gilt with urn in the denter of each cover, gilt inner dentelles, a.e.g. First Edition.

With double fore-edge paintings, of Venice, with gondolas upon the Grand Canal, and Lake Como, featuring a sailboat in the center of the lake. Both are quite well executed, and likely of the nineteenth century.

Condition:

Some scuffing to the spine, joints and corners; some minor foxing and soiling within, else very good.

Item#:

120881
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