Sold for:
$861
$861
Fore-edge Painting, Two Volumes. John McDiarmid's The Scrap Book , Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd, 1823; two octavo volumes bound in straight grained burgundy morocco, gilt tooled, a.e.g.; each volume with a fore-edge painting: volume one with the Tower of London and St. Paul's Cathedral; volume two with Westminster Abbey, the Houses of Parliament, and the Abbey Bridge, but conspicuously without Big Ben, which was not completed until 1859; the two volumes housed in a custom slipcase, 7 x 4 1/4 in.
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2015-11-15
