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London: S. Prowett, 1828. First edition. (ii),111pp; there are four small (uncoloured) vignettes in the text, one of which is repeated on the title-page, plus the 24 HAND-COLOURED plates, including the frontis: these are dramatic and grotesque, and vividly reflect the character of the play. Small early printed ownership label on front pastedown. There is some offsetting from the plates to the facing pages, some spotting to the endpapers, and occasional minor soiling or browning on some pages. The binding is 19thC half-calf with marbled boards, slightly knocked and sunned, but firm and in good order. [NB: This book should not be confused with other copies with uncoloured plates, or with portfolios of the plates with no book, or with the 2nd edition, printed the same year.] Very Good+.

Price: £520.00

Andre de Rache, Brussels, 1965. First English text edition. 358pp, many illustrations and colour plates, with extensive bibliography. Ownership name after fep. Quarto, original decorative cloth, VG+
[Heavy Item]

Price: £45.00

London: Faber and Faber, 1987. First edition. 271pp, with many illustrations, mostly in colour. Contents very clean and fresh and unmarked. Large quarto, in original white buckram, spine titled in silver, very bright and clean. Spine extremities puckered, corners sharp. The protected price-clipped pictorial dustjacket has a half-inch closed tear at base of spine, has small knocks at corners and spine ends, and slightly at some edges: clean and bright. Very nice copy with minor wear. Near Fine in VG+ dust-jacket.

Price: £190.00

London: Volo Edition, 1990. First edition. 192pp, with many glorious illustrations in colour. Ownership name on front free endpaper, contents otherwise very clean, fresh, and unmarked. Large quarto, in sparkling red laminated boards lettered in silver. Firm, clean and bright, with very minor compression at spine ends. In protected unclipped (unpriced) pictorial dust jacket, bright and clean, with a small knock and a short closed tear at the head of the spine, and a few small scuffs to the surface. Near Fine in very good dust-jacket.
[Heavy Item]

Price: £70.00

George Philip, London, 1992. First Edition. 176pp, illustrated with 160 paintings, sketches and photographs, in colour and monochrome. Contents very fresh, no sign of a previous reader. Landscape quarto, in the original brown cloth-textured boards lettered in gilt. Knock to base of spine and slight rub to one edge and small bump to another, otherwise clean, bright and firm. Unclipped pictorial dustjacket has small bump to base of spine, otherwise bright and fresh. The only comprehensive guide to Turner's first European tour. VG+ / VG+. ISBN 0540012513

Price: £50.00

Art Institute of Chicago, Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, and The Royal Academy of Arts, London, with Thames and Hudson, 1994. First British HARDCOVER Edition. 464pp, with hundreds of magnificent plates, mostly in colour. Bookshop barcode sticker on pastedown under front flap. Contents fresh and unmarked. Large quarto, in the original rich golden-yellow cloth, with publisher's insignia and titling in red, in immaculate condition. The pictorial dustjacket is bright and clean and fresh, with a slight knock to the head of the spine. Seen in certain lights, there appear to be a number of scratch marks to the surface: this is due to the surface being pressure-sensitive - a light touch with a fingernail will produce this effect. A beautiful copy of a beautiful book. FINE/Near-FINE.
[EXTRA Heavy Item]

Price: £100.00

London, Lund Humphries, 1996. First Edition. Glossy, 200 pp, 177 colour plates. Large quarto. Unread copy in superb condition. Beautiful monograph on Mary's work. Fine in Fine dust-jacket.
[Heavy Item]

Price: £95.00

Moscow?: 2000. Presumed first edition. Russian and English text (though publication details are in Russian only). 80pp, with many colour plates. A lavish production, presenting the works purchased by Vnesheconombank as a gift to the state Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts. Contents fresh and clean and unmarked, with a silk marker. Large quarto in dark blue cloth with small pictorial onlay and titled in silver in Russian and English. Firm, bright and fresh, with a few very small soil marks and head of spine slightly blunted. Near-Fine.

Price: £120.00

London: The Royal Academy of Arts, 2001. First edition. 156pp, with many illustrations, almost all in colour. Ownership name on first page, and small coffee? spill to top of p.62 (a text page), causing 3mm surface damage to the facing image, and slight cockling of the adjacent pages. Contents otherwise very clean and fresh. Large quarto, laminated pictorial thin card covers (landscape in ochre), with pictorial card jacket (front shows painting of a head), all in very fresh sharp condition. Very Good in Near Fine dust-jacket.

Price: £75.00

Norwich: Black Dog Books, 2005. First edition. First Edition. viii, 176pp, richly illustrated in colour. New unread copy, signed by Ian Collins on the title page. Large quarto, in blue cloth-textured binding lettered in silver. In splendid unclipped pictorial dustjacket, all as new. Scarce. Mint in Mint dust-jacket.

Price: £120.00