Check out this Paternoster image:
[Tower of London.]
Image by Boston Public Library
Accession No: 07_04_000138A
Call No: PR5464.R6 1818
Book Title: Roderick, the last of the Goths, v.1
Painting Location: Fore-edge/fanned to the right
Painting Title: [Tower of London.]
Subject:
Cities & towns
Marines (Visual works)
Catalog Card Transcription:
(DOUBLE EDGE)
Southey, Robert.
Roderick, the last of the Goths. 5th edition. London, Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, Paternoster-Row, 1818.
2 vols., 12mo, contemporary full green straight-grain morocco, gilt, gilt edges; small stains on cover, very slightly rubbed. In a cloth slip case.
A fine example of the art of fore-edge painting, each volume bearing a double painting on the fore-edge, as follows:
Vol. 1: The Gate House, Highgate, showing a street and houses. The Tower of London, with ships at anchor in the Thames River.
Vol. 2: The Foundling Hospital, with street and carriage, etc. in the foreground. London from Highgate, with houses and field in the foreground. With the Reginald Gurney bookplate.
I. Title.
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