Author: Brooke, Stopford & Turner, J M W
Title: Notes On The Liber Studiorum Of J M W Turner
Description: The Autotype Company, 74 New Oxford Street - Henry Southeran & Co 36 Piccadilly, 1885, 1st edition. Cloth, VG. xxii+266pp, sepia frontis & 4 sepia plates by the photo gravure process, 1 etched plate, top edge gilt the rest uncut, cloth a little rubbed, some offsetting from the plates which has browned the page opposite, endpapers browned, a nice copy. Ex libris H A Freeman of Barrow on Humber with their name on the pastedown & Fanny Mills ( from Aunt Agnes ) with her signature dated 1889 on the title. Hardback , no dustjacket. ¶ A detailed study of Turner's major venture into printmaking, the Liber Studiorum which he worked on 1809 - 1819 & which contained 90 prints in etching & mezzotint. and was according to Finberg 'the pith of all that is best in his life and work`.

Keywords: art, painting, etching, fone art, mezzotint