Young's Night Thoughts 1817 FORE-EDGE PAINTING After William Blake
Young's Night Thoughts 1817 FORE-EDGE PAINTING After William Blake
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Size: 101 x 159 mm (approx.)
Condition:
[pp.[1]-12, pp.[1]-324]
Half black calf leather over marbled boards with a red tooled morocco label and gilt crowns in compartments between raised bands. Slight bump to the second compartment else fine. Joints fine. Boards near fine with slight bumps to the top corners. Binding a little warped but without shelf lean. Page edges non-uniform, likely due to the application of paint to the fore edge. All edges gilt. One way fore-edge painting present to fore-edge visible when the leaves are spread apart as usual. The book itself collates as complete. New endpapers alongside an original blank at the front, lacking the original blank at the rear if called for. Text block toned with the odd spot of foxing else clean throughout. No ownership inscriptions etc.
[Orbis 9712714].























