Accession number
PML 142542
Creator
Turner, J. M. W. (Joseph Mallord William), 1775-1851.
Published
[London] : Subscriptions received at Mr. Turner's, Queen Ann street west, [1807-1819]
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Title from publisher's printed wrapper.
Illustrated frontispiece followed by 70 plates executed in etching and mezzotint, with accompanying guardsheets.
Originally issued in fourteen parts.
Library copy has only one of the original printed part wrappers, trimmed and mounted on endpaper, identified as the wrapper for part 8 in ink, with Turner's initials.
Pencil inscription on verso of front fly-leaf reads: "Part wrapper at end, 71 plates complete, mainly second and third states, but some fine impressions"; states of individual plates are identified in pencil on verso.
Illustrated frontispiece followed by 70 plates executed in etching and mezzotint, with accompanying guardsheets.
Originally issued in fourteen parts.
Library copy has only one of the original printed part wrappers, trimmed and mounted on endpaper, identified as the wrapper for part 8 in ink, with Turner's initials.
Pencil inscription on verso of front fly-leaf reads: "Part wrapper at end, 71 plates complete, mainly second and third states, but some fine impressions"; states of individual plates are identified in pencil on verso.
Description
[71] leaves of plates : ill. (mezzotints) ; 29 x 43 cm.
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Binding
Full red morocco tooled in gilt by Riviere & Son.
Classification
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