Plans, Elevations, Sections, and Details of the Alhambra: from drawings taken on the spot by the late M. Jules Goury and in 1834 and 1837 by Owen Jones ... With a complete translation of the Arabic in

by JONES, Owen, (1809-74) and Jules GOURY (d. 1834)

$24,000 · Offered by Biblio

London: published for Owen Jones, 1845. 2 volumes, folio. (26 x 19 1/2 inches). 1p. list of subscribers. 2 chromolithographic additional titles, 2 hand-coloured plans, 100 plates, measured drawings and plans, engravings or lithographs (38 on India paper mounted [4 of these folding], 67 chromolithographs) after Owen Jones or Jules Goury, by Jones, T.T. Bury, W.S. Wilkinson and others. Contemporary half green morocco and marbled paper covered boards, spine gilt with raised bands, expert repairs to joints and head and tail of spine 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 colours, are highly important in their own right as early experimental examples of the chromolithographic process that was to come to dominate colour 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 is it stood early in the 19th century: at least twenty years before the first detailed photographic records were made. Owen Jones was the son of a prosperous Welsh

• Publisher: published for Owen Jones
• Year: 1845
• Binding: unknown

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