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JONES, Owen (1809-74) and Jules GOURY. Plans, Elevations, Sections, and Details of the Alhambra . London: Owen Jones 1842-1845.
JONES, Owen (1809-74) and Jules GOURY. Plans, Elevations, Sections, and Details of the Alhambra . London: Owen Jones 1842-1845. 2 volumes, 2° (585 x 435). Chromolithographic titles and 102 lithographic plates, of which 70 are chromolithographs and a number heightened in gold. (Plate 1 with some wear in the fore-edge, some spotting, some leaves with short marginal tears, folding plate with short tear at fold.) Contemporary red half morocco, probably a publisher’s binding, the sides covered with green moiré, cream coated endpaper (stitching and adhesive perished with all gatherings loose, leather scuffed with some losses at the corners). Provenance : Hugh Lupus, 1st Duke of Westminster (1825-1899; bookplate). FIRST EDITION OF THIS SUPERBLY PRINTED WORK . ‘Jones's approach to colour printing was that of the precise architect with an eye for abstract design and the harmony of colours, an approach he carried further in his Grammar of Ornament , 1856' (Abbey). Jones' Grand Tour, which included Constantinople and Cairo, sparked his fascination with Islamic buildings. In 1834 he and the young French architect Jules Goury visited Granada and the Alhambra. After Goury's sudden death, Jones visited the Alhambra again in 1837. The printing of the sketches of these two trips and the need of the flat, opaque and accurate colour schemes to reproduce the decorative motifs, led Jones to set up his own chromolithographic press in the Adelphi with the help of Day and Haghe. Abbey Travel , 156; Brunet III, 564.