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Table Talk, and other poems.
by [Fore-Edge Painting] COWPER, William
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Montreux, Switzerland
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About This Item
London:: Printed for John Sharpe, 1825., 1825. 12mo. 204 pp. Engraved plates. Original full tan polished calf, tooled in blind and gilt, raised bands, leather spine label, all edges marbled; rubbed, light wear to extremities, joint repaired with kozo. Bookplate of Oscar Ehrhardt Lancaster. Very good. With a fore-edge painting of Philadelphia. With a title of the fore-edge placed by the artist called on the lower left hand corner of the view. Painted circa 1948-50 by "Stephens". Carl J. Weber visited Lancaster on May 1, 1954 and inscribed a copy of his book on fore-edge painting to him. Lancaster (b.1887) was a patent lawyer from Pennsylvania, was also a book collector and had a collection of fore-edge paintings.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Jeff Weber Rare Books
(CH)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- FF086
- Title
- Table Talk, and other poems.
- Author
- [Fore-Edge Painting] COWPER, William
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Printed for John Sharpe, 1825.
- Place of Publication
- London:
- Date Published
- 1825
- Keywords
- Fore-edge Painting
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Jeff Weber Rare Books
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Montreux
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- Edges
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- 12mo
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- Gilt
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- Bookplate
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- Calf
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- Raised Band(s)
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- Spine Label
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