JONES (Owen) & GOURY (Jules) - Lot 61

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JONES (Owen) & GOURY (Jules) - Lot 61
JONES (Owen) & GOURY (Jules) Plans, Elevations, Sections, and Details of the Alhambra.... London: Published for Owen Jones, 1842-45. 2 volumes in-folio, nombreuses planches en chromolithographie. Volume I: (1842), 1 f.; titre lithographié en couleurs; titre en noir et rouge; 4 ff.; notice historique, 20 pp. texte français/anglais; 51 planches (2 gravures sur cuivre originales en couleurs, 25 chromolithographies, 20 lithographies en noir et blanc et 2 à double page); Texte en français et en anglais, parfois en Arabe. Vignettes sur bois dans le texte. Les gravures sur cuivre sont imprimées sur papier d'Inde. Volume II: (1845) Titre lithographié en couleurs; titre en noir et rouge; 51 planches (42 chromolithographies et 9 gravures sur cuivre sur papier d'Inde). Demi-maroquin à grands coins vert d'époque, dos à nerfs richement ornés de résilles dorées, pièces de titre de maroquin bordeaux, plats de papier marbré, tranches dorées. Large paper copy of the first edition of this highly detailed and beautifully produced work. The lithographs printed in colour are highly important in their own right as early experimental examples of the chromolithographic process that was to come to dominate colour reproduction for most of the second half of the nineteenth century. These, allied with an excellent text, add an additional and valuable dimension to this work as an important historical record of this Moorish jewel in early 19th Century, at least twenty years before the first detailed photographic records were made. An unusually good copy of a work which, because of its bulk of some 26 kg. is often found in poor condition. It can be described without exaggeration as monumental', not just for its size, but as a milestone in English colour printing being one of the first to use the technique of chromolithography. Furthermore it is monument to the determination of its authors, Jules Goury died of cholera at Granada in 1836 while preparing the original drawings and Owen Jones was faced, on his return to England i
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