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Credit: Sales catalogue 581: Maggs Bros. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![J. M. W. TURNER. [1460] LIBER STUDIORUM. The Complete Set of 71 engravings of Architectural, Pastoral, Marine, Mountainous, and Historical Subjects. Designed and etched by ].M. W. Turner, and engraved in mezzotint under his personal supervision by Lewis, Charles Turner, Wm. Say, Lupton, and S. W. Reynolds. All fine impressions. Oblong folio. Full morocco gilt, g.e. 1807-19. £60 The Liber Studiorum was designed and carried out by Turner in the early-middle period of his career, its publication ranging from 1807, when he was thirty-two, in’ 1819, when he was forty-four—these twelve years coinciding pretty nearly with what is generally known as his “second manner” in Art. In the year of its inception, Turner’s position as the first English landscape-painter of his day was assured, and this series of plates Turner regarded as his magnum opus. The Liber Studiorum of Turner was designed from the first as a series, not of sketches, but of fully-finished pictures, which were to illustrate his whole range of powers, and to embrace every kind of subject of which he considered himself master. Projected therefore with this aim, the groundwork of every plate was the work of his own hand, and each after-stage entrusted to the best engravers of his day over whom he kept strictest supervision. It is not surprising that the Liber Veritatis was utterly distanced, and that the Liber Studiorum, produced during twelve years of Turner’s life in which many of his strongest, although not his most imaginative, pictures appeared, came forth a truly monumental work, taking rank with the highest expressions of his genius. IN AN ELaBorATE JEWELLED BINDING. [1461] THE RIVERS OF FRANCE. Royal 8vo. London, 1837. £85 A Jewelled Binding by Sangorski and Sutcliffe in full green levant morocco, leather joints, brown levant morocco doublures and silk fly-leaves. The whole binding is elaborately inlaid and gold tooled. The design is floral in character, the Lily, the emblem of France, treated in a conventional manner, being the principal feature. Central panels of an ornamental shape, sunk slightly below the surface, afford recesses for the introduction of jewels. In the decoration of this binding are used 39 stones and 420 coloured leather inlays. The stones comprise :— 17 Moonstones. 2 Sapphires. 8 Fire Opals. 2 Tourmaline. 5 Green Chalcedonies. 1 Amethyst. 4 Marquise Garnets. The doublures are tooled with inlaid Lily centres and corner pieces and decorative line borders. The silk fly-leaves are diapered in gold with fleur de lys. The back panels are also suitably decorated and the book is enclosed in a morocco book-form case. [1462] FINBERG (Alexander J.). THe Hisrory or Turner’s Liser Srupiorum, with a new Catalogue Raisonne. With gt illustrations. Thick 4to. Original buckram, uncut. London, 1924. £5 5s One of 650 copies printed and signed by the Author. [1463] ———— Nores on Four Pencrt Drawincs MADE By J. M. W. Turner IN May or June, 1793. With four full-page plates. 4to. Original wrappers, uncut. London, 1922. 5s](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b31642160_0206.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
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