RESTORATION BINDING - WITH FORE-EDGE PAINTING NORRIS (JOHN) A Collection of Miscellanies, title-page with engraved vignette, browning and foxing throughout, contemporary black goatskin, elaborate all over gilt tooling with outer roll-tool border enclosing large drawer handle floral designs, waterlilies and petals painted in red and silver (faded to blue), ornamental side-pieces, quadrilobes, floral tools, rosettes, small and medium filled circles and pointillé, spine in 6 compartments with raised bands and further floral, water lily and drawer handle tools, gilt turn-ins, g.e., with a fore-edge painting of a carnation, Tudor rose, tulip and butterflies, housed in cloth solander box, joint split [ESTC R14992], 8vo, Oxford, John Crosley, 1687 Footnotes: A LAVISH RESTORATION BINDING WITH GILT TOOLING, COLOURED HIGHLIGHTS AND A CONTEMPORARY FORE-EDGE PAINTING. Although some of the tools are very similar to those used by the Queens' Binder B, some show slight variations and some appear peculiar to our binding. Provenance: John Roland Abbey, gilt bookplate; his sale, Sotheby's, 23 June 1965, lot 509; Harry A. Levinson Rare Books, loosely inserted letter ('It is a lovely thing. In addition it has a genuine 17th century fore-edge of a Scotch thistle, painted under the gilt. It is the only genuine one I have seen in many years, and one of the earliest genuine fore-edges to come to light!'); Julia Parker Wightman (1909-1994), gilt bookplate. This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: • • Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing