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Fables with Fore-Edge Painting

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Fables with Fore-Edge Painting

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Auction Date:2018 Jul 11 @ 18:00 (UTC-5 : EST/CDT)
Location:236 Commercial St., Suite 100, Boston, Massachusetts, 02109, United States
ALS - Autograph Letter Signed
ANS - Autograph Note Signed
AQS - Autograph Quotation Signed
AMQS - Autograph Musical Quotation Signed
DS - Document Signed
FDC - First Day Cover
Inscribed - “Personalized”
ISP - Inscribed Signed Photograph
LS - Letter Signed
SP - Signed Photograph
TLS - Typed Letter Signed
Desirable book with vivid fore-edge painting: Fables: Consisting of Select Parts from Dante, Berni, Chaucer and Aristoto, Initiated in English Heroic Verse by Richard Wharton. London: Printed by T. Bensley for Payne and Mackinlay, 1804. Hardcover, 5.5 x 8.75, 199 pages. When fanned, the fully gilt pages reveal a vivid country fishing scene. Book condition: VG-, with wear spine and edges. The consignor notes that this was given to his father in the mid-1950s as a gift from a physician colleague of his who had traveled to the UK for a visit.