Description
Album of a soldier during the 1823 campaign in Spain, by Clerjon de Champagny. Translation of the 1829 edition, Paris, by Francisco Berdía Cabrera.
2011 edition, numbered and limited to 1,000 copies, printed with artisan techniques, on 120-gram boned laid thread paper, of which 750 (numbered from 1 to 750) destined for the Madrid Guild of Old Booksellers (this is the one to which this exemplary), and 250 (numbered from 751 to 1,000) for the V Award for Artistic Binding.
The copies were delivered with rustic binding and without deburring (intonso). The copy that we offer has been deburred and rebound in brown leather, with a gilt title on the spine and main plan and with a color plate mounted on this same plan. Guide tape. Format 18 x 25.7 cm. 194 pages with 40 plates that reproduce the lithographs made by Langlumé in the 19th century edition, accompanied by extensive comments.
Clerjon de Champagny was a French soldier who was part of “The Hundred Thousand Sons of Saint Louis”, an ironic and popular expression used to designate the French army that, under the orders of the Duke of Angoulême, invaded Spain in 1823 to impose again, after the so-called “constitutional triennium”, the absolutist regime. During his stay in Spain and in all those places he visited, he took notes and drew characters from Spanish society who, for one reason or another, caught his attention. On his return to France, and in 1829, he published this work in Paris. Interesting for the knowledge of the Spanish people of the first quarter of the 19th century. In the index photo you will see the 40 characters/places that stood out to you the most.
Exclusive copy and in perfect condition, unused.
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