Romanticism, Medievalism, & Monasticism: Lord Byron - The Prisoner of Chillon (1865)

The Prisoner of Chillon. Poem by Lord Byron. Illuminated by W & G. Audsley Architects [London: Day & Son] 1865. ( 310 x 220 mm) 20 chromolithographed pages printed rectos only, unnumbered. Chromolithographed by W. R Tymms.  19th c. Marbled pastedown and fly leaves. Bound in full calf with gilt and blind tool stamping, gauffers. Armenian red fore-edges. Foxing throughout, but primarily on unillustrated versos. Overall VERY GOOD condition. William Robert Tymms (1828-1878) was one of the foremost chromolithographers in the 1860s. This stunning edition of Byron’s Gothic work was produced during Tymm’s most celebrated decade and, indeed, the quality of his technical skill, artistry, and his re-imagining of the Medieval is on display. Artists, such as Owen Jones, in the 1840s and 1850s had perfected the artistic process of chromolithography, producing works intended for the conspicuous consumption of the Victorian upper-middle class. And the 1860s revelled in the difficult tech