Europe.- Prout (Samuel) Facsimiles of Sketches Made in Flanders and Germany and Drawn on Stone, lithographed title, dedication and 50 plates, tissue-guards, lacking list of subscribers, foxing to title, dedication, and endpapers, scattered light spotting and surface soiling to plates, some pencil marks to the odd plate, hinges reinforced, 19th century half morocco, joints cracking with old repairs, rather scratched, rubbed and bumped, folio, [1833].

⁂ ? "Prout was a pioneer lithographer who employed the process as early as 1817, when most of his fellow artists were ignorant or contemptuous of it. His friend and disciple Ruskin specifically exempted Prout from his dismissal of lithography in The Elements of Drawing, noting that "all his published lithographic sketches are of the greatest value, wholly unrivalled in power of composition, and in love and feeling of architectural subjects" (p.339)...Unfortunately these lithographs are now assiduously sought after as single prints, and complete copies of the book [Flanders and Germany] have virtually disappeared." Gordon N. Ray, The Illustrator and the Book in England from 1790 to 1914. The plates also include five views of Prague.