Estimate: | £300 - £500 |
Hammer price: | £550 |
BINDING WITH TWO FORE-EDGE PAINTINGS - E. V. LUCAS (1868-1938). A Wanderer in London ... Twenty-Sixth Edition Revised. London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1926. 2 volumes, 8vo (183 x 118mm). Coloured plates, illustrations, EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED with c.250 engraved plates, a few hand-coloured. FINELY BOUND by Bayntun in contemporary full dark blue crushed morocco gilt, the covers with the coat-of-arms of the City of London, the spine gilt in six compartments, dentelles, blue silk liners, EACH VOLUME WITH A FORE-EDGE PAINTING, the first of Old Lambeth Bridge and Lambeth Palace; the second of the Tower of London (some minor scuff marks to the upper cover of vol. II). Provenance: W. A. FOYLE, BEELEIGH ABBEY (red morocco armorial bookplate, from Christie's sale on 13 July, 2000, part of lot 849); "From Sir Hugh Walpole Library, July /45" (pencil inscription on the front free endpaper of vol. one). (2)