London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longman, 1835. Octavo. Very good. With a frontispiece, title-page vignette, and eighteen other fine steel engraved plates after Turner.. half navy morocco and blue cloth. Top edge gilt. Lower joint with a two inch crack, the occasional minor spot in the text. Corners bumped else a very good clean copy. One of three works generally referred to as Turner's Annual Tours, and this apparently a large paper copy (or at least an untrimmed copy), with plenty of margin for the connoisseur. It was first published in the previous year as India paper proofs before titles. Edward Hodnett, goes so far as to say that the engravers who worked on Turner's landscapes turned his watercolors into "steel engravings of unsurpassed brilliance" (Five Centuries of English Book Illustration, page 141) Gordon Ray says that Turner "achieved his best landscapes on steel in the series" (The Illustrator and the Book in England From 1790-1914, page 18).

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Bookseller: Austin's Antiquarian Books (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 10680
Title: WANDERINGS bY THE SEINE, FROM ROUEN tO THE SOURCE
Author: Ritchie, Leitch
Illustrator: With a frontispiece, title-page vignette, and eighteen other fine steel engraved plates after Turner.
Format/Binding: Octavo
Book Condition: Used - Very good
Quantity Available: 1
Publisher: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longman
Place of Publication: London
Date Published: 1835
Keywords: Travel, Landscape, Frnce, Seine, Turner's Annual Tours.

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Austin's Antiquarian Books is a used, rare and out of print bookshop located on West Main Street in Wilmington, Vermont. At our shop we have a general stock of approximately 15,000 used, scarce and out-of-print books, with particular strength in American History, especially Theodore Roosevelt the West, Travel, Decorative Arts, Natural History, and Sporting. We also offer a selection of antique maps and prints, historical paper and ephemera.

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Fine: A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
Cloth: "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
Top Edge Gilt: Top edge gilt refers to the practice of applying gold or a gold-like finish to the top of the text block (the edges the pages...
Octavo: Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
Morocco: Morocco is a style of leather book binding that is usually made with goatskin, as it is durable and easy to dye. (see also...
Vignette: A decorative design or illustration placed at the beginning or end of a ...