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The Rivers of France, from drawings by Turner ~ Pristine publisher's cloth
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The Rivers of France, from drawings by Turner ~ Pristine publisher’s cloth

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TURNER, J.M.W.; RITCHIE, Leitch; WATTS, Alaric

Liber fluviorum; or, river scenery of France: depicted in sixty-one line engravings / from drawings by J.M.W. Turner ; with descriptive letterpress by Leitch Ritchie ; and a biographical sketch by Alaric A. Watts. London: Henry G. Bohn, York Street, Covent Garden, 1853. 

Thick octavo, with 61 fine steel-engraved views by J.M.W. Turner including title page with vignette. 

A very fine copy in contemporary blind-stamped publishers’ cloth.  Royal blue with elaborately gilt design. The binding immaculate – almost as new.  All edges gilt 

Internally equally fine, the plates in rich impressions showing none of the usual foxing.  While this is a book commonly found, a copy in such remarkable and untouched condition is very unusual. 

Gordon Ray (The Illustrator and the Book in England from 1790 to 1914) writes that “Turner achieved his best landscapes on steel in this series”. 
The book includes Alaric Watt’s early biographical sketch of the artist who had died two years before the publication.  Importantly, it also includes a full transcript of Turner’s controversial will, the subject of four years of litigation.
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