BOYS (Thomas Shotter). Picturesque Architecture in Paris, Gh - Lot 56

BOYS (Thomas Shotter). Picturesque Architecture in Paris, Ghent, Antwerp, Rouen etc. Drawn from Nature and on Stone. London: By Thomas Boys, Printseller to the Royal Family, 1839. In-folio (542 x 370 mm), lithographed title, 2 pp. of plate notices, dedication page to Hullmandel, 25 chromolithographs, preserved in the publisher's decorated red half-maroquin binding, moiré silk boards with red morocco framing and gilt fillets, title stamped in gold in the center within an escutcheon (Rel. de l'époque). FIRST EDITION. The plates, tinted by Charles Hullmandel, who patented his own chromolithography process in 1840, are exceptionally beautiful: Fish Market, Antwerp; Belfry, Ghent; Byloke, Ghent; Tour de Remy, Dieppe; L'Hôtel de Ville, Arras; St. Laurent, Rouen; Laon. Laurent, Rouen ; Laon ; Rue de Rivage, Abbeville ; Rue de la Grosse Horloge, Rouen ; L'Abbaye St Amand, Rouen ; Hôtel de Cluny, Paris ; Hôtel Cluny, Paris ; Hôtel de Sens, Paris ; St Severin, Paris ; Porte Rouge, Notre Dame, Paris ; Rue de Marmousets, Paris ; La Ste Chapelle, Paris ; Notre-Dame, Paris ; St Etienne du Mont, Paris ; St Etienne du Mont and the Pantheon, Paris ; Pavillon de Flore, Tuileries ; Hôtel de la Tremouille, Rue des Bourdonnois, Paris ; Vieille Rue du Temple, Paris ; La Chapelle de l'Institut ; Notre-Dame, Paris, from the Quai St Bernard ; S. Porch of Chartres Cathedral; St. André Chartres (slight spotting). Thomas Shotter Boys, watercolorist and lithographer, was placed with George Cooke, engraver, to practice that profession, but at the end of his apprenticeship he visited Paris and was persuaded by Bonington, under whose guidance he had studied, to devote himself to painting. He exhibited in Paris for the first time in 1827 and remained there until 1837. Boys' "Picturesque Architecture in Paris, Ghent, Antwerp, Rouen", published in 1839, provoked great admiration. King Louis-Philippe sent him a ring in recognition of his merit. Boys was a member of the Institute of Painters in Water Colours. "A very beautiful book. Apart from the brilliance, sensitivity and technical mastery of the drawing on stone there is the great, and often underestimated, technical and artistic transmission of such drawings, and in developing the cool, transparent, graduated tints, subtle in coloring, on which the book depends. (Abbey, Travel 33) Very fine book dedicated to the architecture of Paris, preserved in its original binding and complete with text and plates. (unbound)