432. Prout (Samuel) Facsimiles of Sketches made in Flanders and Germany, first edition , lithograph title and dedication leaf (both foxed), 50 lithographed plates on grey paper, tissue guards, later blue straight-grain half morocco over cloth, cloth on lower cover a little rubbed, [Ray 83], folio, Hullmandel, [c.1833].
est. £750 – £1000
“Prout was a pioneer lithographer who employed the process as early as 1817, when most of his fellow artists were ignorant or contemptuous of it. His friend and disciple Ruskin specifically exempted Prout from his dismissal of lithography in The Elements of Drawing , noting that “all his published lithographic sketches are of the greatest value, wholly unrivalled in power of composition, and in love and feeling of architectural subjects” (p.339)...Unfortunately these lithographs are now assiduously sought after as single prints, and complete copies of the book [ Flanders and Germany ] have virtually disappeared.” Gordon N. Ray, The Illustrator and the Book in England from 1790 to 1914 .
The plates also include five views of Prague.