Fore-Edge painting.- Bibles.- The Book of Common Prayer, 1806; and

Fore-Edge painting.- Bibles.- The Book of Common Prayer, and Administration of the Sacraments..., ink inscription to front free endpaper, light foxing, hinges starting to crack, contemporary morocco with flap, closing tongue, and strap wrapping around the fore-edge, rubbed and slightly scuffed, g.e., contemporary fore-edge painting beneath the gilt of ascending Christ above trio of apostles, John Reeves, 1806. § The Book of Common Prayer..., illuminated chromolithographic frontispiece with circular portrait vignette, and additional illuminated title pages (1 loose), front free endpaper splitting at gutter, hinges starting to crack, near-contemporary morocco with ivorine boards, brass edges and brass clasp over fore-edge, upper cover with heightened monogram, g.e., double fore-edge painting beneath the gilt of Westminster Hall and Hemel Hempstead, Oxford University Press, 1865; and three others, all with fore-edge paintings, 8vo, (5).

Estimate:£400

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