There’s an interesting exhibition of Turner’s watercolors at the Mystic Seaport Museum in CT. Of course, browsing in the museum shop is always half the fun, and I had a chance to flip through a book of Turner Sketchbooks:
Here’s my favorite page:
There were no intact Turner sketchbooks exhibited at the museum, though I believe the Tate has some in their collection. Here’s another book that looks nice, a facsimile edition of his “Skies Sketchbook“.
You can see some of my other favorite facsimile sketchbooks here.