Fore-Edge painting.- Firth (J.B. [John Benjamin]) Highways and Byways

Fore-Edge painting.- Firth (J.B. [John Benjamin]) Highways and Byways in Derbyshire, first edition, limited edition, no.57 signed by Miss Currie [Caroline Billin Currie] to limitation page, half-title, frontispiece and illustrations by Nelly Erichsen, scattered foxing, contemporary morocco by Riviere & Son [for] H. Sotheran & Co., light rubbing to spine ends, extremities, and corners, g.e., fore-edge painting beneath the gilt being a view of Chatsworth, Macmillan & Co., 8vo, 1905. *** Caroline Billin Currie, known as Miss Currie or C.B. Currie (1849-1940), was a miniature and fore-edge painter. In the early 20th century, she worked at the Henry Sotheran & Co. bookshop painting fore-edges. She also painted ivory miniatures for the Cosway bindings by Riviere.

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