Turner (Joseph Mallord William). The Turner Gallery, 1875
Sold for £220
Turner (Joseph Mallord William). The Turner Gallery. A series of sixty engravings..., with a memoir and illustrative text by Ralph Nicholson Wornum, London: Chatto & Windus, 1875, engraved portrait frontispiece and 60 plates, some spotting throughout, occasionally heavy, all edges gilt, together with a loosely inserted autograph letter signed from Algernon Graves, 21 March 1912, to Mr Rawlinson, saying that he does not recall the Chatto & Windus issue of the Turner Gallery, 'neither did I know that the plates were ever out of Messrs Virtues' hands...', 3 pp., 8vo, armorial bookplate of S.L. Courtauld, all edges gilt, contemporary brown half morocco, gilt decorated spine, heavily rubbed, joints tender, folio
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Provenance: Sir Stephen Lewis Courtauld MC FRS (1883-1967), English philanthropist and youngest brother of Samuel Courtauld, founder of the Courtauld Institute of Art.
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Sold for £220
Turner (Joseph Mallord William). The Turner Gallery. A series of sixty engravings..., with a memoir and illustrative text by Ralph Nicholson Wornum, London: Chatto & Windus, 1875, engraved portrait frontispiece and 60 plates, some spotting throughout, occasionally heavy, all edges gilt, together with a loosely inserted autograph letter signed from Algernon Graves, 21 March 1912, to Mr Rawlinson, saying that he does not recall the Chatto & Windus issue of the Turner Gallery, 'neither did I know that the plates were ever out of Messrs Virtues' hands...', 3 pp., 8vo, armorial bookplate of S.L. Courtauld, all edges gilt, contemporary brown half morocco, gilt decorated spine, heavily rubbed, joints tender, folio
(Qty: 1)
Provenance: Sir Stephen Lewis Courtauld MC FRS (1883-1967), English philanthropist and youngest brother of Samuel Courtauld, founder of the Courtauld Institute of Art.
