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Literature - fore edge paintings, 5 vols.

RUSKIN (J) Lectures on Art, 1887, 8vo, blue calf, fore edge later painted with a portrait of Ruskin after J E Millais; SHAYLOR (S J) In Praise of Gardens 1911, Bumpus binding, fore edge later painted with two ladies and a dog in a beautiful garden; HALSEY (E) Gaudino Ferrari, 1904, [later ?] painted with a Nativity scene; EARLAND (A) Ruskin And His Circle, 1910, full morocco, fore edge painted with a house scene and motto 'Welcome to your New Home'; LAMB (C) Essays of Elia, 1887, prize binding for the Northern Church of England School with vignettes to the front and rear within double ruled borders, fore edge painting in Art Nouveau Mucha style (5)

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