Fore-edge painting—J.M.W. Turner | Picturesque Views on the Southern Coast of England, 1826, two fore-edge paintings

Fore-edge paintings—J.M.W. Turner

Picturesque Views on the Southern Coast of England. London: John and Arthur Arch, 1826

FIRST EDITION, 4to (289 x 224mm.), 80 steel engravings of Kent, Sussex, Hampshire, Dorsetshire, Devonshire, Cornwall and Somersetshire after Turner and others, contemporary green straight grained morocco gilt, edges gilt with DOUBLE FORE-EDGE PAINTINGS of Folkestone, and St Michael's Mount, occasional offsetting, title, front endpapers and back cover detached

Two fine fore-edge paintings showing the port town of Folkestone in Kent and the Cornish island of St Michael's Mount exhibit exceptional miniature artistry.