A Series of One Hundred and Twenty Engravings from theÿWorks of the Late J.M.W. Turner, R.A. The Descriptive Text by W. Cosmo Monkhouseÿby W. Cosmo Monkhouse and J.M.W. Turner, New York: D. Appleton and Company, circa 1880, bound in full leather over heavy wood boards, with five gilt ruled raised bands, red morocco spine label, blind stamped decorations between the bands, with raised gilt title label on the front board, repeating gilt decorated border banding, ownership initials on the front board (A.E.B. from A.E.G.), decorative inner gilt dentelles, with a small book binder label on the front pastedown, engraved portrait frontispiece of Turner and 120 steel engraved plates (complete) after Turner - Provenance: Private Collection, Charleston, South Carolina
Condition
some wear to extremities, some surface scratches to leather, bumped corners, most pagesÿand plates with foxing and staining throughout, some water staining, tape reinforced hinges applied to the inner gutters