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 3033600.3
Summary
Bibliographic description
v. 2 (pp. [i]-vi, 1-181) : ill. ; 8vo. Extra illustrated. Text of original work mounted in folio volume. Additional title page: "The life and works of J.M.W. Turner. Illustrated by engravings from his drawings and pictures. Vol. III.". Ephemera: loosely inserted page from 'Nature' (July 27, 1963, pp. cxxxiii-iv) with advertisements for packaging, enzymes and a microprojector. 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; spine gilt, lettered direct (gilt tooled): 'Turner's Life and works Illustrated Vol III'; double gilt fillet on board edges; gilt rolled turn-ins; gilt textblock edges. Binder's gilt stamp on front turn-in: 'De Coverly'.
Makers and roles
George Walter Thornbury (1828-1876), author