Fazakerely Binding and Fore Edge Painting
The Vicar of Wakefield.
London: John Van Voorst, 1843.
Price: $7,500.00
About the item
With 32 illustrations by William Mulready. 8vo. Bound in full burgundy morocco, upper cover with triple fillet gilt rules about green inlaid borders surrounding a central device of a gilt leafy rosebush with six roses and four rose buds inlaid in citron morocco, spine gilt with leaves and seven inlaid roses and buds, lower board with central roundel, a green ring and with a single rose and four buds in a spray of leafy vines, turn-ins gilt, green moiré silk doublures, a.e.g. with fore-edge painting under gilt by Fazakerely, Liverpool. Cloth folding box.
Item #366529
The fore edge painting is a highly detailed pastoral scene of two ladies and two gentlemen, and the vicar seated at the edge of a wood.
A choice Fazakerley binding.
