signed
1842 · London:
by LOCKHART, John Gibson. (trans.); Owen JONES.
London:: John Murray, 1842., 1842. Printed by Vizetelly Brothers and Co. Small folio. [242] pp. Illustrated with numerous engravings by various artists and color decorative boarders by Owen Jones. Contemporary red blind and gilt-stamped morocco, all edges gilt, by Remnant and Edmonds [binders, signed on rear fly-leaf]; some neat repairs to upper joint. Bookplate and stamps from the Brooklyn Public Library, their spine call number and perforated title. Very good. With a marvelous fore-edge painting of "Gibraltar" painted by the "Dover" painter, associated with Marks & Co., ca. 1928. The "Black Gibraltar's giant rocks" are part of the poem called "Count Arnaldos" found within the text. See: Weber, Jeff, Annotated Dictionary of Fore-edge Painting Artists & Binders, pp. 98-103. (Inventory #: FF186)