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JONES, Owen, (1809-74) and GOURY, Jules. Plans, Elevations, Sections, and Details of the Alhambra. London: Published for Owen Jones, 1842-45. 2 volumes, 2° (580 x 425). 2 chromolithographic titles and 102 lithographic plates of which 70 chromolithographic. (Some waterstaining and soiling.) Contemporary red half morocco (joints splitting, lacking spines, rubbed).
FIRST EDITION. 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 color 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. (2)
FIRST EDITION. 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 color 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. (2)