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FORE-EDGE PAINTINGS -- William SHAKESPEARE. The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare . London: 1821. 12 volumes, 8° (195 x 120mm.). (Occasional minor spotting to margins of titles and early leaves.) Contemporary calf, covers with gilt roll-tool borders enclosing blind-tooled panels, spines gilt with red morocco lettering pieces, EACH VOLUME DECORATED WITH A FORE-EDGE PAINTING, unsigned but with a contemporary manuscript descriptive label pasted on front endpaper, g.e. (joints of two volumes slightly cracked at foot). A fine set of fore-edge paintings, the landscape views of the 'picturesque' comprising; Framlingham Castle, Suffolk; Fingals Cave, Staffa; Staffa from the sea; Loch Lomond; Dumbarton Castle on the Clyde; Ossians Hall in the Duke of Atholl's grounds, Perthshire; Lymington, Hampshire; Reding, Berkshire; Under Cliff, Isle of Wight; Dublin Bay; Matlock, Derbyshire; Mallwyd Bridge, North Wales. (12)