[FORE-EDGE PAINTING]. HAWKESWORTH, JOHN, editor. The Adventurer. London: C. Whittingham for John Sharpe 1805-1807. 4 vols., 12mo, bindings: 194 x 120 x 23mm. (7 5/8 x 4 3/4 x 15/16in.), contemporary straight-grained green morocco, covers with gilt fillet and roll-tooled borders, smooth spines gilt, g.e. with fore-edge paintings of OLD HUNGERFORD MARKET; TEBARD INN, SOUTHWARK; SADERS WELLS; AND LONDON BRIDGE, joints and extremities slightly rubbed, a few tiny chips to the leather, some light spotting. Engraved frontispiece-portraits, engraved titles, 4 engraved plates.