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Specimens of the Early English Poets.
Each of the Cary Collection's three volumes of George Ellis' Specimens of the Early English Poets has a fore-edge painting showing a foxhunting scene with some sort of comic mishap. Here a rider has flipped over this horse. Let's hope he wasn't…
The Book of Common Prayer
These gauffered edges adorn papier ma?he binding specimens found in the Bernard C. Middleton Collection at the Cary Collection. The silk bookmarks read "Faith Hope and Charity", "No Cross No Crown" and "The Truth Shall Make Us Free."
The Book of Common Prayer
This triptych of Westminster Abbey is a suitable subject for this Book of Common Prayer. Shown in the three panels are: the choir and nave, a view from the Thames, and the south choir aisle.
The Book of Common Prayer, and Administration of the Sacraments, and Other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church
This fore-edge painting appears to be contemporaneous with the book's mid-eighteenth century decorative binding featuring a wheel motif with the crucifixion at the center. Some of the fore-edge painting has been rubbed away over the years.
The Connexion of the Old and New Testament
A view of Jerusalem from the Mount of Olives, an important site in both the Old and New Testaments. The blue-domed building just left of center is the Dome of the Rock.
The Holy Bible: containing the Old and New Testaments
These gauffered edges adorn papier ma?he binding specimens found in the Bernard C. Middleton Collection at the Cary Collection. The silk bookmarks read "Faith Hope and Charity", "No Cross No Crown" and "The Truth Shall Make Us Free."
The Life of Mrs. Godolphin
A fore-edge painting of Windsor Castle adorns this edition of John Evelyn's biography of Margaret Blagge Godolphin (1652-1678), a courtier in King Charles II court known for her extraordinary beauty.
The Poems of William Shakspeare.
The fore-edge painting decorating this edition of Shakespeare's poems shows the house on Henley Street in Stratford-upon-Avon, England, where Shakespeare was born in 1564
The poetical works of Robert Burns.
This copy of volume 1 of Robert Burns' poetry has a double fore-edge painting. Fan the pages to the left and you will see Struthers Steps, Kilmarnock. Fan the pages to the right and you see the clay cottage where Burns was born in Alloway, Ayrshire,…
The poetical works of Robert Burns.
This copy of volume 1 of Robert Burns' poetry has a double fore-edge painting. Fan the pages to the left and you will see Struthers Steps, Kilmarnock. Fan the pages to the right and you see the clay cottage where Burns was born in Alloway, Ayrshire,…