Bindings.- Bacon (Sir Francis) The Essays..., edited by R.Montagu, with 2 original drawings, one in black ink of initial R formed by flowers and leafy tendrils facing title, the other in brown ink of Cupid atop an anchor having fired an arrow at a heart opposite fly-title of 'Wisdom of the Ancients', light soiling, damp-staining to endpapers, contemporary green morocco with elaborate gilt border, by Hering, spine gilt in compartments, inner gilt dentelles, g.e., signed at head of front free endpaper (detached), a little rubbed, William Pickering, 1836 § Quiller-Couch (A.T., editor) The Oxford Book of English Verse 1250-1900, contemporary crushed blue morocco, gilt, spine gilt in compartments with five raised bands, g.e., spine slightly rubbed and faded, Oxford, 1908; and a copy of Taylor's Holy Dying by Pickering bound in black morocco, 8vo (3)
Bindings.- Bacon (Sir Francis) The Essays..., edited by R.Montagu, with 2 original drawings, one in black ink of initial R formed by flowers and leafy tendrils facing title, the other in brown ink of Cupid atop an anchor having fired an arrow at a heart opposite fly-title of 'Wisdom of the Ancients', light soiling, damp-staining to endpapers, contemporary green morocco with elaborate gilt border, by Hering, spine gilt in compartments, inner gilt dentelles, g.e., signed at head of front free endpaper (detached), a little rubbed, William Pickering, 1836 § Quiller-Couch (A.T., editor) The Oxford Book of English Verse 1250-1900, contemporary crushed blue morocco, gilt, spine gilt in compartments with five raised bands, g.e., spine slightly rubbed and faded, Oxford, 1908; and a copy of Taylor's Holy Dying by Pickering bound in black morocco, 8vo (3)
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