![[Signed] Kensington. Picturesque & Historical LOFTIE, W. J. [Very Good] [Hardcover]](https://r.kelkoo.com/resize.php?country=ca&merchantId=100567270&categoryId=5101&trackingId=96985762&width=auto&height=auto&image=https%3A%2F%2Fpictures.abebooks.com%2Finventory%2F31018757726_2.jpg&sign=W_pbABLLxJwi_naoKpYlma8uuUXTn0HUWkNRkSSqzpA-)
Contemporary vertical fore-edge painting depicting two rural scenes; one of a cow sitting under a tree and the other of a boy holding a pole and a toy sailboat. The images were painted by William Luker and each image is signed ""W.L. Jr."" Quarto volume - xix, 287 pages, lxiv subscribers list, 7 ads. Luker also illustrated this lovely volume with over 300 images, some in full color. Both fore-edge images are referenced from internal illustrations - page 60 showing the boy and page 166 shows the resting cows. Also contains three maps. After page xliv, at the bottom of an ad for this book, is found - ""For the curious, a few PROOF copies of KENSINGTON: PICTURESQUE and HISTORICAL, at five guineas, bound in full morocco, have painted in water-colours on the front, under the gilt edges of the leaves, a couple of Kensington views, which, until the leaves are bent back, are invisible."" This is the only book title known with a fore-edge painting by William Luker. Very Good.
