‎PERNOT F.A. ( drawings ) - Paul LAUTERS ( lithographer ) - A.PICHOT ( texts based on Walter SCOTT ) :‎
‎"Vues Pittoresques de L'Écosse , dessinées d'après nature par F.A.Pernot ; exécutées sur pierre par P. Lauters et imprimées par A.Dewasme. Avec un texte explicatif extrait en grande partie des ouvrages de Sir Walter Scott par A. Pichot."‎

‎15. Bruxelles, Aug. Wahlen et A.Dewasme, 1827, large in-4°, 35,5 x 27 cm, (4)nn pp + v pp + 127 pp + (59/60) full page lithographic views printed on ''Chine appliqué'' and with 14 lithographic illustrations in the text.. Bound in modern boards, boards covered with marbled paper, leather title label on spine. The frontispiece plate is missing, some pages have clear waterstains, Last 20 leaves with a dark waterstain in the upper inside corner ( not affecting the text nor the views), some pages with some browning. Not withstanding these defects still a worthy and rare specimen of early Belgian romantic bookillustration. The book apperaed in installments. This is the most expensive edition where the plates were printed on China paper. The publication is the Belgian answer to the French edition which appeared one year earlier and was printed on a smalle format. The Belgian lithographer P. Lauters, destined to make a highly successful career as a lithographer was barely 20 years old when he made the lithographs. The book is a testimony of the revival of the romantic interest in Scotland which was brought on by Walter Scott ( see at length J.H.M. Van der Marck - Romantische Boekillustratie in België - Roermond 1956)..‎

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