[ Frederick Alfred Turner, historian of Brentford. ] Turner's own copy of his 'Brentford: Literary and Historical Sketches', with autograph and typed additions for an (unpublished) second edition.

[8] + 81pp., 8vo. In paper wraps and tracing-paper dustwrapper carrying the title printed in red. Internally in good condition; in aged and worn dustwrapper reinforced at spine with brown tape. Autograph additions throughout, including some on the endpapers, in pencil and black and turquoise ink. Also present are two pages of typewritten additions at the start of the book, regarding the 'Probable Origin of the Name Brentford', on both sides of an inserted 12mo leaf, on which printed slips of paper from p.3 of the book are also laid down. Among the autograph additions is one relating to the painter J. M. W. Turner. In the book Frederick Turner writes that the artist was sent away in the 1880s to an uncle living in Brentford, and in an autograph note he writes: 'Mr C. Mallord Turner tells me this is incorrect: the painter was sent away because of the birth of a sister.'