£140
Fore-edge Painting - [Homer's Iliad], Homeri Ilias, volume II only: Rhapsodia XIII-XXIV, Lipsiae [Leipzig]: Car. Tavchnitii, 1824, portrait frontispiece, finely bound in contemporary blue calf, the covers blocked in gilt with portrait profiles of the epic poet, within gilt and blind tooled and rolled borders, the fore-edge finely painted in polychrome watercolour with a contemporary Grand Tour classical landscape, top and bottom edges gilt, marbled endpapers, 8vo (14cm x 9.5cm), [1]
Provenance: L. Slater/d.d./R.P. Hull, contemporary ink MS presentation inscription to ffep.
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