TWO DOUBLE FORE-EDGE PAINTINGS
The Poems of William Dunbar. Now first Collected. With Notes, and a Memoir of His Life. By David Laing.
Edinburgh: Printed for Lang and Forbes, Prince's Street and William Pickering, London, 1834.
Price:
$2,500.00
First Edition. 2 vols. 8vo. Bound in full contemporary red morocco, a.e.g., with gilt emblem and motto " honi soi qui mal y pense" on upper cover by J. Clarke. Lord Derby's copy. Light rubbing to joints, trace soiling to boards, but a lovely copy.
Item #311061
The fore-edge paintings in volume one are of the Broomielaw Bridge, Glasgow, and another Scottish local. The fore-edges in volume two depict the Port of Dundee and the town of Dumfries.
Item #311061
The fore-edge paintings in volume one are of the Broomielaw Bridge, Glasgow, and another Scottish local. The fore-edges in volume two depict the Port of Dundee and the town of Dumfries.
