CAMPBELL (Thomas). & FORE EDGE PAINTING

The Pleasures of Hope; and Gertrude of Wyoming. Two volumes bound in one.

Fine view of Lambeth Palace.

2 engraved title pages, engravings after Westall in the text. New edition, and ninth edition. Small 8vo., contemporary full straight-grained burgundy morocco, gilt, gilt lyre to both boards, a.e.g. London, Longman, Hurst, Orme, Rees and Brown, 1826.

£550.00

Under the fore edge a painting of the old Westminster Bridge, with Lambeth Palace on the river bank, in the foreground a boatman and two boats.

Old ownership inscriptions to the front free endpaper, some very small rubbing to the hinges, overall a handsome Regency binding, with a well executed fore edge painting under the gilt.

Stock No.
229663