28th Jul, 2021 10:30 GMT/BST

Books, Maps & Manuscripts

 
  Lot 166
 

166

Turner (J. M. W.). The Turner Gallery. A Series of Sixty Line Engravings. From the Works of the...

Turner (J. M. W.). The Turner Gallery. A Series of Sixty Line Engravings. From the Works of the Late J. M. W. Turner, R.A. The Descriptive Text by W. Cosmo Monkhouse, London: J. S. Virtue and Company, Limited, 1890. Large folio (455 x 330 mm), original red half morocco, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, 60 steel-engraved plates on india paper, mounted, each with title-leaf, leaf of descriptive text, and tissue-guard, extremities rubbed, front joint cracked at head, together with 2 others (not collated: The Turner Gallery: A Series of One Hundred and Twenty Engravings, c.1880, 3 volumes, bindings shaken and contents working loose, and Joseph Halfpenny, Gothic Ornaments in the Cathedral Church of York, 1831, plates only, plate 13 absent, spine defective, front board detached), and a carton of art reference, 20th century (qty: - ) First item: number 26 of 300 copies only; no other copies traced in auction records.

Sold for £250
Estimated at £100 - £200


 

Auction: Books, Maps & Manuscripts, 28th Jul, 2021

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