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 3033600.4
Summary
Bibliographic description
v. 2 (pp. 182-[426]) : 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. IV.". Ephemera: clipping from bookdealer's catalogue describing this copy (price: £35) loosely inserted. 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 IV'; 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