Fore-edge Painting, Two Volumes.

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Fore-edge Painting, Two Volumes.
John McDiarmid's The Scrap Book, Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd, 1823; two octavo volumes bound in straight grained burgundy morocco, gilt tooled, a.e.g.; each volume with a fore-edge painting: volume one with the Tower of London and St. Paul's Cathedral; volume two with Westminster Abbey, the Houses of Parliament, and the Abbey Bridge, but conspicuously without Big Ben, which was not completed until 1859; the two volumes housed in a custom slipcase, 7 x 4 1/4 in.
Estimate $300-500


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