The Liber Studiorum of J.M.W. Turner, R.A. : reproduced in facsimile by the autotype process from examples of the best states in possession of the Rev. Stopford Brooke, M.A., each plate accompanied with a critical notice by him. In two volumes. Vol. I [II]
London: Henry Sotheran & Co., 37, Piccadilly, and 140, Strand, 1899
Physical Description
2 vols. : illus. ; 295 x 390 mm.
General Note
Turner's Liber Studiorum, a series of landscape and seascape compositions published as prints in etching and mezzotint, was published between 1807 and 1819 in fourteen parts with a frontispiece. Only 70 prints and the frontispiece [here numbered as plate I] - of the planned 100 prints - were published. This is a two volume facsimile reproduction with critical notes by Stopford Brooke. The printer statement appears on the verso of the title-page: London: Printed by Wertheimer, Lea and Co., Circus Place, London Wall. Vol. I: [8], 76 p., 36 leaves of plates ; Vol. II: [2], 84, [8] p, 35 leaves of plates.
In the Appendix at the end of Vol. II Brooke writes of his indebtedness to the writings of Ruskin and therein reprints what Ruskin wrote on Turner's Liber Studiorum and what he had written on particular prints which appeared in the work.
Contents
Vol. I: [Frontis., t.p.] - Publishers' Note - The Liber Studiorum. Contents - Volume I - Preface to the collection of autotypes - [Critical notes with plates I-XXXVI] - VOl. II: [T.p.] - The Liber Studiorum. Contents - Volume II - [Critical notes with plates XXXVII-LXXI] - Appendix
Copy Note
In the Publishers' Note in Vol. I, it is noted that "The whole number of copies is one hundred and fifty, and no more will be reproduced."
Binding Note
Bound in black linen with spine lettering in gold, 'Turner's Liber Studiorum, I [II]'.