Fore-edge painting : a historical survey of a curious art in book decoration / by Carl J. Weber.

Recreations in natural history, or, Popular sketches of British quadrupeds : describing their nature, habits and dispositions, and interspersed with original anecdotes, embellished with numerous engravings and woodcuts, from portraits of living animals, painted by the first masters / woodcuts by L. Clennel, and engravings after paintings by him.

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Fore-edge painting

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Fore-edge painting : a historical survey of a curious art in book decoration / by Carl J. Weber.