[Frontis. (port.), t.p.] - Preface - Contents - Corrigenda; Directions To The Binder - [Text, with 2 pl.] - Notes of Six Lectures, delivered by Constable, on Landscape Painting - [colophon].
Responsibility Note
The frontispiece portrait of Constable is signed as drawn by C.R. Leslie and lithographed by R.J. Lane; Plate [1], also a portrait of Constable, is signed as painted by Gardiner and lithographed by T.H. Maguire; Plate [2] is signed as [painted] by John Constable and [engraved] by David Lucas.
The frontispiece and Plate [1] carry the imprint of M. & N. Hanhart; Plate [2], that of Longman & Co. (with the date 1845).
The printer is named in the colophon: 'C. Whittingham, Chiswick'.
In Whittingham's distinctive style, the book abounds in headpieces and decorated initials derived from 16th-century originals. These are unsigned.
References
Studies of Constable include J.C. Ivy, Constable and the critics 1802-1837 (1991); I. Fleming-Williams and I. Parris, The discovery of Constable (1984).
Summary Note
Leslie was a friend of Constable. He published the first edition of this biography in 1843.
The three plates show: [frontis.] portrait of Constable; [1] portrait of Constable; [2] landscape 'Spring' by Constable.
Reproductions
This second edition was reprinted in 1951 (London: Phaidon).
Binding Note
19th-century half green morocco, marbled-papered boards; spine lettered 'Memoirs Of Constable Leslie', 'R.A.' and '1845'.