Description
Rare first Italian edition of the account of the journey to Spain by the French Baron Carlo Davillier, superbly illustrated with over 300 drawings in the text and on a full-page cover by Gustave Doré. Milan, Fratelli Treves, 1874.
Despite being over 150 years old, this copy is in generally good/very good condition. Only a water stain at the top of the first four pages and browned paper and some pages with rust stains due to the passage of time are noted, but this does not affect its readability or the illustrations, some of which are true works of art by Doré.
Rear hardcover leatherette binding with handwritten title on the spine, preserving the rare original publisher’s covers. Format 23.5 x 31 cm. 632 pages plus 143 pages with full-page and single-sided illustrations outside the pagination.
Jean Charles Davillier (Rouen, March 17, 1823 – Paris, March 1, 1883) was a French art collector and writer. His Voyage en Espagne (1875)—published in installments between 1862 and 1873 in the travel magazine Le Tour du monde and translated into Spanish under the title “Journey through Spain” in 1957—remains famous for its illustrations, mostly about bullfighting by Gustave Doré. The book also contains many illustrations of monuments, places, and popular figures of the time. The drawings, engravings, and lithographs about bullfighting in this book were also compiled in another publication under the title La Tauromachie de Gustave Doré.
Some of the cities illustrated and referenced in the work: Malaga, Cadiz, Seville, Cordoba, Toledo, Madrid, Segovia, Barcelona, Valencia, Badajoz, Caceres, Salamanca, Leon, Asturias, Zaragoza, etc.
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