Fore-edge Painting, Prize Book, The Iliad of Homer

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Fore-edge Painting, Prize Book, The Iliad of Homer. London: Murray, 1865.
Two octavo volumes in full red morocco, fore-edge paintings on each volume, depicting the Royal College of Surgeons and the New College of Physicians, both in London, bindings very good, a.e.g., colors in the paintings bright, 8 1/4 x 5 in. (2)
Estimate $400-600


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