Lot 89
Fore-edge painting.- Dictionary of National Biography (The), fore-edge painting by Miss C.B. Currie of Clare Hall, Cambridge, 1925.
Estimate: £2,000 - 3,000
Description
Fore-edge painting.- Dictionary of National Biography (The), contemporary black morocco, gilt, by Riviere & Son for H. Sotheran, g.e., fine fore-edge painting by Miss C.B. Currie depicting Clare Hall Piece, Cambridge, with inserted calligraphic leaf at beginning naming this as no.138 of Currie's books with fore-edge paintings and signed at the foot by her, bookplate of Randall Moskovitz loosely inserted, 8vo, 1925.
⁂ A sumptuous copy with a large and finely executed fore-edge painting by the pre-eminent artist in the genre, Caroline Billin Curry, aka Miss C.B. Currie (1849-1940).
Description
Fore-edge painting.- Dictionary of National Biography (The), contemporary black morocco, gilt, by Riviere & Son for H. Sotheran, g.e., fine fore-edge painting by Miss C.B. Currie depicting Clare Hall Piece, Cambridge, with inserted calligraphic leaf at beginning naming this as no.138 of Currie's books with fore-edge paintings and signed at the foot by her, bookplate of Randall Moskovitz loosely inserted, 8vo, 1925.
⁂ A sumptuous copy with a large and finely executed fore-edge painting by the pre-eminent artist in the genre, Caroline Billin Curry, aka Miss C.B. Currie (1849-1940).