ROGERS, Samuel.

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Unquestionably the most famous and frequently praised book illustrated with steel engravings. Turner's illustrations are "vignettes, a form of art which Turner understood better th an any artist ever did before, perhaps we might add, since. The 'Alps at Daybreak,' 'Columbus Discovering Land,' and 'Datur Hora Queti' may be given as examples of the finest" (Encyclopaedia Britannica 11th Edition). "Of outstanding beauty and importance" (Muir p. 71). Unfoxed copies are uncommon, and finely bound copies of the first edition in that condition are rare. A fine copy. Show more