JERROLD, Blanchard.- London, a pilgrimage. [Illustrated] by Gustave Doré. London, Grant, 1872.
Estimation :
250 / 300
Description
In-f° (copy slightly browned).
Bound by Mansell : green morocco, boards gilt titled encircled with fillets and a large floral frame and with a blind stamped fleuron in the center, gilt decorated ribbed spine, floral roll-stamps on the turn-ins, gilt edges (some parts rubbed, corners dulled).
FIRST EDITION and nice work giving a good testimony of the industrialisation period in London gathering the text of the journalist Jerrold and the engravings of Doré. The 180 illustrations, of which 1 frontispiece and 53 plates protected by captionned tissues guards, are more focused on the people and the poor (street workers, lavander and flower sellers, dockers, a Sandwich man, etc.) but also figure the city crowded, the first underground with workers rushing to get on, the aristocraty at the Opera, etc.
# Leblanc 154.
IHFZ Édition originale illustrée de 180 compositions (dont 1 front. et 53 h.-t.) figurant un Londres industrialisé avec ouvriers, métro, quartiers animés mais aussi les loisirs de l'aristocratie. Relié en plein maroq. par Mansell (ex. lég. bruni, rel. frottée par endroits).
Bound by Mansell : green morocco, boards gilt titled encircled with fillets and a large floral frame and with a blind stamped fleuron in the center, gilt decorated ribbed spine, floral roll-stamps on the turn-ins, gilt edges (some parts rubbed, corners dulled).
FIRST EDITION and nice work giving a good testimony of the industrialisation period in London gathering the text of the journalist Jerrold and the engravings of Doré. The 180 illustrations, of which 1 frontispiece and 53 plates protected by captionned tissues guards, are more focused on the people and the poor (street workers, lavander and flower sellers, dockers, a Sandwich man, etc.) but also figure the city crowded, the first underground with workers rushing to get on, the aristocraty at the Opera, etc.
# Leblanc 154.
IHFZ Édition originale illustrée de 180 compositions (dont 1 front. et 53 h.-t.) figurant un Londres industrialisé avec ouvriers, métro, quartiers animés mais aussi les loisirs de l'aristocratie. Relié en plein maroq. par Mansell (ex. lég. bruni, rel. frottée par endroits).
