Album artistico de Toledo. Colleccion de Vistas y Detalles de los principales Monumentos Toledanos

First edition of this beautifully lithographed album after various artists, alternating picturesque views with architectural details. (Not listed in the Ornamentstischsammlung catalogue, Berlin.)

This splendid album contains 51 lithographed plates outside the text, our copy with two additional duplicate plates bound in.

Contemporary binding in half black morocco, smooth spine decorated with gilt typographic motifs, original black moiré paper boards with gilt title on upper cover preserved, original delivery wrappers bound in, corners rubbed, some marginal tears and wear to board edges, modern binding.

Some occasional foxing.

The text is by the historian Assas who, alongside others (notably José Amados de los Rios), within the Romantic movement, advocated for "the necessity and importance of the history of Spanish architecture" and sought to combat the widespread neglect of Spanish Gothic.

The Escuela Especial de Arquitectura had been founded four years earlier in this very spirit.

The Spanish intended to continue the legacy of Laborde and his celebrated Voyage pittoresque et historique de l’Espagne.