Jones, Owen, and Jules Goury | Large paper copy of this highly-detailed and beautifully-produced work

Jones, Owen, and Jules Goury
Plans, Elevations, Sections, and Details of the Alhambra. London: Owen Jones, 1842-1845

2 volumes, folio (667 x 495 mm). Chromolithographic titles and 102 lithographic plates, of which 70 are chromolithographs and a number heightened in gold. Contemporary dark-green half morocco, marbled boards, paneled spines decorated in gilt, gilt contrasting lettering-pieces.

Large paper copy of the first edition of this highly-detailed and beautifully-produced work

According to Abbey, this work was first published in two forms: small paper for £18.16s (as the Abbey copy) or £31.10s for the large paper issue (as here). Abbey does not mention if there were any other differences in the make-up of the two issues, but the plates on India paper found here (which are not in the Abbey copy) are only found in the large paper issue. The lithographs, printed in colors, are highly important in their own right as early experimental examples of the chromolithographic process that was to come to dominate color lithography for most of the second half of the nineteenth century. These images, combined with the excellent text, form an important historical record of the Alhambra as it stood early in the 19th century: at least twenty years before the first detailed photographic records were made.

REFERENCE
Abbey Travel I:156 (small format); Burch 183-185; Courtney-Lewis 139-140; Martin Hardie 243, 250, 252-253; Brunet III:564

PROVENANCE
Frederick du Cane Godman (bookplate)

Condition Report:
Condition as described in catalogue entry.