Alfred Danflou | Les Grands Crus Bordelais, Bordeaux, 1867, 2 volumes

Alfred Danflou

Les Grands Crus Bordelais. Monographies et Photographies des Châteaux et Vignobles. Bordeaux: Librarie Goudin, [1867]

Second edition, 2 volumes, folio (350 x 267mm.), 55 albumen print photographs (each 128 x 172mm.), each captioned with the name of the château and its owner, contemporary burgundy half morocco, spines with raised bands in six compartments, spines and upper covers lettered in gilt, marbled endpapers, some spotting, preliminary gathering in volume 1 and one gathering in volume 2 becoming loose, joints starting, rubbed

The most complete edition of this attractive publication. The first edition, published in 1866, had 19 photographs, whereas the second edition (of which the present copy is a complete example) includes 55 photographs.

"Pour la première fois, l'art photographique aura été appliqué à reproduire ces constructions qui s'élèvent au milieu des pampres, les unes splendides par leur magnificence, les autres gracieuses et charmantes dans leur simplicité".

["For the first time, the art of photography will have been applied to reproduce those edifices which arise in the midst of the vines, some splendid in their magnificence, others charming in their simplicity"] (introduction to volume 2).

LITERATURE:

Howgego (2), 96; Sayer and Bennett’s Catalogue of New and Valuable Prints, 1775