BOURASSE - Lot 209

BOURASSE La Touraine 1856 Tours, Alfred Mame et Cie, 1856. Folio, half-vellum with rear corners Half-title page, title page, 610 pp., (1) p., 4 color lithographs out of text (including the frontispiece), 14 figures out of text engraved on steel after Karl Girardet and Français, 1 map out of text, and 262 woodcut vignettes in the text The most famous and most beautiful work devoted to Touraine. This book has been unanimously hailed as the masterpiece of typography and illustration of its century. Presented at the 1855 World’s Fair in Paris, it was awarded the Grand Medal of Honor by the international jury. Brunet I, 1174; Taschereau, 17. Carteret, *Le Trésor du bibliophile*, III, 103. Pierre Duchemin, “Abbé Bourassé and Two Monumental Works: *La Touraine, Histoire et Monuments* and *La Sainte Bible*, with illustrations by Gustave Doré,” *Mémoires de la Société archéologique de Touraine*, LXX, 2013, pp. 73–85.