Fore-Edge painting.- Edwards of Halifax. Book of Common Prayer (The), 1785.

Fore-Edge painting.- Edwards of Halifax. Book of Common Prayer (The), various gift and ownership ink inscriptions to endpapers, ownership ink inscription to title page, light foxing and a few creases to corners, underpainted vellum by Edwards of Halifax, upper cover with two putti painting a monogram on a shield, the lower cover with a female classical figure holding a lamp, within Greek key borders, rubbed, gilt slightly faded, spine label rubbed, spine ends bumped, g.e., contemporary fore-edge painting beneath gilt of a village scene with a castle, Oxford, Clarendon Press, small 8vo, 95 x 60mm., 1785. *** A nicely preserved example from the renowned Edwards of Halifax binders and fore-edge painters, featuring the typical Greek key boarder and using James Edwards's patented method for rendering vellum transparent, revealing the protected painted decoration on the underside. Edwards of Halifax was a famous 18th and early 19th century English family of bookbinders, publishers, and antiquarian booksellers founded by William Edwards (1723–1808) in Halifax, Yorkshire, and expanded by his sons, James and Richard.

Estimate:£1,200

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