[Auvergne] Bour [Charles] and Clerget, H[ubert]. Auvergne, Mont-Dore and its surroundings, drawn and lithographed. [Clermont-Ferrand] Talbot, Paris, Lemercier's printing house, s.d, [ca. 1855]. 1 vol. in-8 oblong, plum-colored percaline stamped with cold diamonds and gilt fleurons in the center of each diamond. - Small wear on the edges of the binding, scattered foxing, body of the book partly unstuck. - Frontispiece in black and white and 39 plates finely colored in gummed colors. Talbot started publishing lithographs dedicated to the thermal spas of Royat, Vichy and Mont-Dore in the middle of the 19th century. He first collaborated with the painter Charles Bour who provided numerous lithographs for albums on these three towns between 1850 and 1860. Other artists such as Hubert Clerget and Eugène Cicéri occasionally contributed. Pascal Chambriard has shown how Clerget became the main illustrator of Talbot's albums between 1858 and 1864. From the large collection of drawings at his disposal, Talbot composed albums with more or less plates, on chine or not, sometimes colored, or in two tones, depending on the target clientele... (Pascal CHAMBRIARD, Les albums de lithogaphies : un exemple de commerce de souvenirs à Vichy sous le Second Empire. Bulletin de la Société d'émulation du Bourbonnais, 2010-2011, pp.137-218).
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