Turner (Joseph Mallord William)

LIBER FLUVIORUM OR RIVER SCENERY OF FRANCE

Depicted in Sixty-One Line Engravings from drawings by J.M. W. Turner with descriptive letter-press by Leitch Ritchie, and a biographical sketch by Alarc A. Watts

Published: London, 1857

Stock Number: #10123/1

Price: R2,000

First edition. lvi, 336 pages, 4to (270 x 220mm), frontispiece, 61 black and white plates with slight offsetting on the backs of the plates, foxing on the preliminary pages, original blue cloth blind stamped with gold vignette on the upper cover, decorative gilt on the spine, edges gilt, slightly worn along the edges of the covers, and at the corners, starting to wear at the front hinge, bookbinders ticket on the back paste down end paper - bound by Burn, a very good copy

Added engraved title page with vignette reads: The Rivers of France from drawings by J.M.W.Turner. London, Henry George Bohn, 1853.Book plate of Edna and Frank Bradlow on a front free end paper.