[Rarebooks] FS: Thornbury's LIFE OF J. M. W. TURNER, 1862

[Charles Agvent]

THORNBURY, Walter. THE LIFE OF J. M. W.TURNER, R.A. FOUNDED ON LETTERS 
AND PAPERS FURNISHED BY HIS FRIENDS AND FELLOW ACADEMICIANS. London: 
Hurst & Blackett, 1862. First Edition. Two tall octavo (5-3/4" x 9") 
volumes bound in publisher's purple cloth with a gilt-lettered spines. 
Complete with half-title pages, 6 illustrations, and ads at the end of 
the second volume. Included chapters on Turner's notebooks and sketches 
and prices for his work. The Appendix inclues A complete catalogue of 
all Turner's engraved works; a Catalogue of all the pictures exhibited 
by Turner in the Royal academy and British institution. Between the 
years 1787 and 1850; a Catalogue of pictures given by Turner to the 
nation; and an Authentic Copy of Turner's will. Tight, solid copies, 
internally clean, with some loss of cloth along the spine edges and at 
the spine tips with a small section of the spine of the second volume 
partly detached. Good or better. (#017200)        $100.00

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