Picturesque Views in England and Wales.

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A beautiful example with NINETY SIX STEEL PLATES BY JMW TURNER. First edition, 1838, two volumes in full calf, decorative gilt tooling. Spines, raised bands, gilt titles to red & black calf label, decorative gilt tooling. Internally, Vol 1, 1838, [4] title page and plate list, followed by 48 fine steel engravings, each with a leaf of descriptive text. Vol 2, 1838, [4], followed by 48 engraved plates, each with a leaf of descriptive text, printed by J. Haddon, Castle Street, Finsbury. Marbled endpapers & text block edges, occasional spotting and light offsetting, gilt tooling to board edges and turn-ins. With previous owners pencil details to ffep (1933- also date for re-bind?), with some loose pencil notes about the book in the same hand, plates dated 1832-1838. (297*236 mm). (Lowndes V, p. 2723). The Picturesque Views in England and Wales was "the most ambitious" of all projects for the publication of engravings after Turner, closely involving the artist himself and marking "a high point in the development of what has come to be known as the Turner school of engravers" (DNB). Engraved plates by W.B. Cook, G. Cook, and others after Turner. A superb copy in a striking binding.