Thomas Miller [ed.] - Turner and Girtin&Apos;S Picturesque Views of English, Scotch, & Welsh Scenery, a Hundred Years Ago

London, Frederick Bentley , 1873. First edition. Cloth. Ode to the beautiful scenery of the United Kingdom from the picturesque views of J. W. M. Turner and Thomas Girtin. The first edition of this work, 'One Hundred Years Ago', following the 1854 publication of  'Sixty Years Since.' Containing a series of thirty engravings from the picturesque sceneries of England, Scotland, and Wales as painted by either J. M. W. Turner or Thomas Girtin. Collated, complete. With a memoir of both Turner and Girtin, rivals and friends in the eighteenth century, both influential watercolourists and etchers who established watercolouring as a reputable art form.  In the original publisher's orange variant decorative cloth binding. Externally with shelf wear, bumped to head and tail of spine, cracked to head of front joint, boards holding firm, back strip faded. Frontispiece weakly attached. Internally, firmly bound. Spotting to first and last few leaves affecting odd leaf throughout, particularly leaves of plates; pages otherwise generally bright and clean. Good . Ill.: J. M. W. Turner; Thomas Girtin. Good .

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