The life of J.M.W. Turner : founded on letters and papers furnished by his friends and fellow academicians. / By Walter Thornbury.
George Walter Thornbury (1828-1876)
Category
Books
Date
1862
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3033600
Summary
Bibliographic description
2 v. : ill. ; 8vo. 2 v. in 4. Extra illustrated. Text of original work mounted in folio volumes. Additional title page in each vol.: "The life and works of J.M.W. Turner. Illustrated by engravings from his drawings and pictures. Vol. I[-IV].". Ephemera: loosely inserted in v. 2: page from 'Nature' (July 27, 1963, pp. clxxi-ii) with advertisements for microscopes; loosely inserted in v. 3: page from 'Nature' (July 27, 1963, pp. cxxxiii-iv) with advertisements for packaging, enzymes and a microprojector; loosely inserted in v. 4: clipping from bookdealer's catalogue describing this copy (price: £35). Provenance: Twentieth-century armorial bookplate (large variant), signed Badeley 1930: ‘Urban Huttleston Rogers Lord Fairhaven’ [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Binding: Nineteenth-century full green morocco; elaborate gilt rolls and fillets to form a border; gilt-stamped floral cornerpieces; six raised bands; spines gilt, lettered direct (gilt tooled): 'Turner's Life and works Illustrated Vol I[-IV]'; double gilt fillet on board edges; gilt rolled turn-ins; gilt textblock edges. Binder's gilt stamp on front turn-ins: 'De Coverly'.
Makers and roles
George Walter Thornbury (1828-1876), author