Accession number
PML 251349
Creator
Wordsworth, William, 1770-1850.
Published
[Bexhill-on-Sea, England] ; [Gordon Murray], November 1987.
Credit line
Bequest of Julia P. Wightman, 1994.
Notes
"Lake District water-colors after J.M.W. Turner, John Constable"--Colophon.
"Bexhill-on-Sea, Gordon Murray, Nov. 1987, Silver Thimble Books. Illustrations and calligraphy by Gordon Murray. Gordon Murray has been the artist and publisher for Silver Thimble Books. Recently he has given up mass production and his editions are smaller and smaller- until in this case he has produced a single unique manuscript with original water colors (one on one cover and two in text). The water colors are after J.M.W. Turner and John Constable"--J.P. Wightman card file.
Housed in box labelled Gordon Murray.
"Bexhill-on-Sea, Gordon Murray, Nov. 1987, Silver Thimble Books. Illustrations and calligraphy by Gordon Murray. Gordon Murray has been the artist and publisher for Silver Thimble Books. Recently he has given up mass production and his editions are smaller and smaller- until in this case he has produced a single unique manuscript with original water colors (one on one cover and two in text). The water colors are after J.M.W. Turner and John Constable"--J.P. Wightman card file.
Housed in box labelled Gordon Murray.
Description
[37] pages, [2] leaves of plates : hand-colored illustrations ; 64 x 70 mm
Inscriptions/Markings
Watercolor on front cover and second watercolor marked in unknown hand in pencil "Borrodale^o" opposite paintings; "Buttermere^x" marked in unknown hand in pencil below frontispiece; "x" in unknown hand in pencil after J.M.W. Turner on colophon; "o" in unknown hand in pencil after John Constable on colophon; artist's inscription in ink opposite colophon: 1/1 Gordon Murray, XI 1987.
Provenance
From the library of Julia P. Wightman, with her bookplate.
Binding
Blue cloth with hand-colored watercolor painting inlaid on front. Issued in black board slipcase with white illustrated label .
Classification
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