Maroquin - Copy on large paper - Lot 592

Maroquin - Copy on large paper TAYLOR (Isidore Justin Séverin) baron The Pyrenees. Paris, Gide, 1843. In-8: 2f., IV, 618pp. Copy on large wove paper. Lemon morocco signed LEBRUN, spine and boards decorated with interlacing scrolls of dark green morocco listels and a large central decoration of curved gilt fillets and mosaic flowers in garnet, white and green morocco, interior lace, gilt edges. A very fine copy. Not very common. As Jacques Labarère rightly states: "Concerns above all the history and archaeology of the Pyrenees" (Labarère 1574). In 1840, this author published a ten-page article with the same title in "La France Littéraire, Littérature, Sciences, Arts". Born in Belgium in 1789 of English parents, Baron Taylor became a naturalized French citizen, and in 1844 founded the "Association des artistes peintres, sculpteurs, architectes, graveurs et dessinateurs", which became the TAYLOR Foundation. An artist and traveller with a passion for archaeology, he undertook several missions to Egypt, from where he brought back a famous French monument: the Louqsor obelisk (Place de le Concorde, Paris). Author of various travel reports, he collaborated with Charles NODIER on one of the monuments of French publishing of all time: the "Voyages pittoresques et romantiques dans l'ancienne France" (20 large folio volumes published between 1820 and 1878), of which the Pyrenees section dates from 1833-1837. Understandably, once he'd written this first text, it was easier for him to produce the 600-page tome we're presenting here. He died in 1879. Beautiful mosaic binding by Lebrun, whose clients included Armand Bertin, Jules Janin, Baron Taylor, etc. Provenance: Copy from the Bourlon de Rouvre library (ex-libris, 1979 sale, no. 248 and Pierre Bergé sale, October 1, 2009, no. 86).