Eugène Poitou - Voyage en Espagne - Magnifique cartonnage d'editeur - 1882

Magnificent copy of the remarkable travel narrative in the Iberian lands written by Eugène Poitou, magistrate and French man of letters. Published by the famous publishing house Alfred Mame et Fils in Tours in 1882, this work offers a vivid and scholarly testimony on Spain in the second half of the 19th century.

The work is abundantly illustrated with engravings both intertextual and in-text by V. Foulquier, including a superb frontispiece view of L'Alhambra in Granada as well as numerous scenes of manners and picturesque landscapes (Madrid, Seville, Cordoba, Zaragoza, the Basque Country...).

** Binding and exterior:
- Superb publisher's binding in bright red percaline, adorned on the first cover with a very beautiful Moorish-inspired architectural design stamped in black and gold.
- Spine richly decorated with gold compartments bearing the title and author's name.
- Second cover stamped in blind bearing the official publisher’s mark "Alfred Mame & Fils à Tours".
- Gilded edges are bright.
- Binding very solid, spine and headcaps in good condition despite light wear from use at the corners and on the second cover.

** Interior condition:
- Interior complete with all engravings and its table of contents.
- Presence of sporadic, pronounced foxing distributed over all leaves, typical of papers of that era, without hindrance to reading the texts or admiring the engravings.
- Paper firmly bound to the binding, signatures perfectly held.

A classic of travel literature in a deluxe edition of the period.

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