Description:
Fore-edge Paintings, Two Volumes. Dyer's Pompeii, London: Bell & Daldy, 1868, octavo, bound in full red morocco, with a fore-edge painting of Lake Massawippi in Quebec, 7 1/2 x 5 in. [and] Loftie's Kensington Picturesque & Historical, London: Field & Tuer, 1888, proof copy, number 11 of 50, with two original signed fore-edge paintings by the book's illustrator, William Luker Jr., large quarto, bound in full brown morocco, a.e.g., 10 x 7 in. (2)
Estimate $300-500
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