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London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, & Green, 1828. 165 x 99 mm. (6 1/2 x 3 7/8"). 2 p.l., 376 pp. Quite attractive contemporary dark green straight-grain morocco, ornately gilt, covers with 13 gilt or blind (mostly gilt) rules and frames (including an elegant palmette frame) with tulip cornerpieces at the board edges and scrolling foliate cornerpieces closer in, central panel with a large and elaborate lyre, raised bands, spine gilt in compartments with foliate cornerpieces and a central lyre surrounded by small tools, densely gilt turn-ins, all edges gilt and gauffered in a diapered pattern. WITH A FINE FORE-EDGE PAINTING OF AN ORIENTAL LANDSCAPE, VERY SURPRISINGLY HIDDEN BENEATH THE GAUFFERED EDGE. Extra engraved title page with vignette and three engraved plates after designs by Richard Westall. ◆Spine evenly sunned to a softer green, just a hint of wear to extremities, minor offsetting from and mild foxing to plates, but an excellent copy, the binding sound and pleasing, the text quite clean,… Read More