FORE-EDGE PAINTINGS and BINDINGS]. VERGILIUS MARO, PUBLIUS. Bucolica, Georgica, et Aeneis. London, 1750. 2 vols., small 8vo, late eighteenth-century English straight-grained red morocco gilt, g.e., each vol. with a fore-edge painting: vol. 1 a view of ETON COLLEGE, vol. 2 a view of OXFORD. Bookplate of John Nathaniel Williams -- TERENTIUS AFER, PUBLIUS. Comoediae. Birmingham: Baskerville, 1772. 8vo, contemporary English straight-grained red morocco gilt, g.e., with a fore-edge painting of a view of a road on the ITALIAN RIVIERA. Bookplate of J. Buckle -- EDWARDS OF HALIFAX, bindery . HOLBEIN, HANS and WENZEL HOLLAR. The Dance of Death [London, 1790]. 8vo, contemporary calf gilt, covers with metope and pentaglyph gilt border around an inner border of blind palmette, gilt Greek key center panel, spine gilt in six compartments with alternating use of two blind tools, pink endpapers, g.e., extremities worn, internal dampstaining . Preface by Francis Douce engraved portraits and plates. -- ANDREWS, WILLIAM. Remarkable News from the Stars: or, an Ephemeris for 1765. London, 1765. 8vo, contemporary English red morocco gilt, g.e., upper joint repaired . And 2 pamphlets (V&A A Picture Book of Bookbindings Part I and II). (7)
FORE-EDGE PAINTINGS and BINDINGS]. VERGILIUS MARO, PUBLIUS. Bucolica, Georgica, et Aeneis. London, 1750. 2 vols., small 8vo, late eighteenth-century English straight-grained red morocco gilt, g.e., each vol. with a fore-edge painting: vol. 1 a view of ETON COLLEGE, vol. 2 a view of OXFORD. Bookplate of John Nathaniel Williams -- TERENTIUS AFER, PUBLIUS. Comoediae. Birmingham: Baskerville, 1772. 8vo, contemporary English straight-grained red morocco gilt, g.e., with a fore-edge painting of a view of a road on the ITALIAN RIVIERA. Bookplate of J. Buckle -- EDWARDS OF HALIFAX, bindery . HOLBEIN, HANS and WENZEL HOLLAR. The Dance of Death [London, 1790]. 8vo, contemporary calf gilt, covers with metope and pentaglyph gilt border around an inner border of blind palmette, gilt Greek key center panel, spine gilt in six compartments with alternating use of two blind tools, pink endpapers, g.e., extremities worn, internal dampstaining . Preface by Francis Douce engraved portraits and plates. -- ANDREWS, WILLIAM. Remarkable News from the Stars: or, an Ephemeris for 1765. London, 1765. 8vo, contemporary English red morocco gilt, g.e., upper joint repaired . And 2 pamphlets (V&A A Picture Book of Bookbindings Part I and II). (7)
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