The Greatest Book Ever Written by Fulton Oursler - 1951

Red leather spine with gilt squared banding and gilt title. Red cloth boards.

Black calf spine with gilt banding. Black textured boards with gilt title on the front board.

Tan and green coloured leather binding with black title plate, gilt banding decoration and lettering on the spine. Gilt decorative border on both boards. Stunning binding.

Original dust sheet. Green cloth with gilt title on the spine.
One hundred and seventy-six early Turners, most in colour and reproduced for the first time, and 22 other reproductions.
Joseph Mallord William Turner RA (23 April 1775 – 19 December 1851), known in his time as William Turner, was an English Romantic painter, printmaker and watercolourist. He is known for his expressive colourisations, imaginative landscapes and turbulent, often violent marine paintings. He left behind more than 550 oil paintings, 2,000 watercolours, and 30,000 works on paper. He was championed by the leading English art critic John Ruskin from 1840, and is today regarded as having elevated landscape painting to an eminence rivalling history painting. Turner was born in Maiden Lane, Covent Garden, London, to a modest lower-middle-class family. He lived in London all his life, retaining his Cockney accent and assiduously avoiding the trappings of success and fame. A child prodigy, Turner studied at the Royal Academy of… Read More

Rebound. Maroon leather spine with Black title plate and gilt banding and lettering. Maroon cloth boards.
The Shooter's Guide, or Complete Sportsman's Companion Containing a Compendious View of the Game Laws A Description of the Various Kinds of Dogs, Rearing, and Training
JOHNSON, Thomas Burgeland (d.1840)]. The Shooter's Guide; or Sportsman's Companion: containing every possible instruction for the juvenile shooter ... by B. Thomas. London: Gale and Curtis, 1811. 8° (231 x 132mm). 4 engraved plates.

Red leather spine with gilt squared banding and gilt title. Red cloth boards.

Black calf spine with gilt banding. Black textured boards with gilt title on the front board.

Tan and green coloured leather binding with black title plate, gilt banding decoration and lettering on the spine. Gilt decorative border on both boards. Stunning binding.

Original dust sheet. Green cloth with gilt title on the spine.
One hundred and seventy-six early Turners, most in colour and reproduced for the first time, and 22 other reproductions.
Joseph Mallord William Turner RA (23 April 1775 – 19 December 1851), known in his time as William Turner, was an English Romantic painter, printmaker and watercolourist. He is known for his expressive colourisations, imaginative landscapes and turbulent, often violent marine paintings. He left behind more than 550 oil paintings, 2,000 watercolours, and 30,000 works on paper. He was championed by the leading English art critic John Ruskin from 1840, and is today regarded as having elevated landscape painting to an eminence rivalling history painting. Turner was born in Maiden Lane, Covent Garden, London, to a modest lower-middle-class family. He lived in London all his life, retaining his Cockney accent and assiduously avoiding the trappings of success and fame. A child prodigy, Turner studied at the Royal Academy of… Read More

Rebound. Maroon leather spine with Black title plate and gilt banding and lettering. Maroon cloth boards.
The Shooter's Guide, or Complete Sportsman's Companion Containing a Compendious View of the Game Laws A Description of the Various Kinds of Dogs, Rearing, and Training
JOHNSON, Thomas Burgeland (d.1840)]. The Shooter's Guide; or Sportsman's Companion: containing every possible instruction for the juvenile shooter ... by B. Thomas. London: Gale and Curtis, 1811. 8° (231 x 132mm). 4 engraved plates.