1825 ❧ NODIER, CHARLES; TAYLOR, JUSTIN (BARON); AND ALPHONSE DE CAILLEUX. Voyages pittoresques et romantiques dans l'ancienne France: Franche-Comté. l'Imprimerie de J. Didot L'Ainé, Imprimeur du Roi, 1825. Folio (535 x 360 mm). Text in Roman and Italic types, decorated with woodcut initials and culs-de-lampe. 169 fine lithographed plates, most on chine appliqué including full-page topographical views, architectural elevations, and plans by Godefroy Engelmann and others, after drawings by Alexandre-Évariste Fragonard, Baron Taylor, James Duffield Harding, and major artists of the French Romantic movement. Spotting and browning. Contemporary 1/2 morocco gilt over marbled boards. Boards scuffed and rubbed. FIRST EDITION of the scarce Franche-Comté volume, forming a vital component of Baron Taylor's monumental, 21-volume masterpiece. Celebrated as one of the most magnificent achievements in the history of French book illustration, Voyages pittoresques represents the first major artistic effort to rehabilitate and document Gothic and Renaissance French architecture. The present volume is heavily prized for its dramatic, atmospheric lithography-vividly captured here in plates such as Fragonard's rendering of the ornate Collège des Jésuites à Dole-which set a new standard for the Romantic aesthetic in topographies. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing