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[FORE?EDGE PAINTING]. COOK, Eliza (1818?1889). Poems. Londo...
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[FORE?EDGE PAINTING]. COOK, Eliza (1818?1889). Poems. London: Routledge, Warne, & Routledge, 1864. 8vo. Steel?engraved portrait frontispiece, numerous woodcut engravings. Early green morocco ruled in gilt, raised bands, gilt framing and lettering in compartments, all edges gilt, concealing a FORE?EDGE PAINTING of a complete deck of playing cards (front hinge reinforced, joints expertly refurbished). Tipped?in with a sheet of rules in manuscript to play cartomancy. Provenance: Stevens Sanderson (bookplate). A very unusual fore?edge painting relating to Cook?s poem titled The Sacrilegious Gamester (see pp. 120?124). Weber states that there are ONLY 2 KNOWN SPECIMENS of this fore?edge painting and describes it as being made by a ?Fortune?Telling? artist. One of the known specimens (Goldsmith?s Poetical Works, ca. 1850, at Wool House Books) also has a tipped?in sheet of fortunes as seen in this copy. Weber, Annotated Dictionary of Fore?Edge Paintings pp. 148?49.
