[ Books ] (FORE-EDGE PAINTING.) Rose, William Stewart; translator. Partenopex de Blois, a Romance, in Four Cantos. Engraved plates by Richard Smirke. 4to, contemporary black straight-grained morocco withdecorative borders tooled in gilt and blind,

[ Books ] (FORE-EDGE PAINTING.) Rose, William Stewart; translator. Partenopex de Blois, a Romance, in Four Cantos. Engraved plates by Richard Smirke. 4to, contemporary black straight-grained morocco withdecorative borders tooled in gilt and blind, raised bands on spines with elaborate gilt tooling and lettering; scattered light foxing. Booksellers ticket of James Briggs on front pastedown. London, 1807 E500/750 WITH A FORE-EDGE PAINTING of two armored knights riding along the edge of a wood towards a castle; charming, if somewhat faded, and painted backwards on the fore edge. The romance of Partenopex made its first appearance in the Bibliotheque des Romans under the title Partenuple de Blois, translated from a story in Spanish prose.