Serrania de Ronda: Cuaderno de Ruta/Route Log

Reyes, Felipe Benitez; Serrano, Carlos (Photographer)

Publication Date: 1999

About this Item

Dust jacket condition: VG. Bilingual text: English/Spanish. Profusely illustrated with color photographs. From the Foreword: In the first decades of the 19th century, travel books became good business for publishing houses. Improvements and breakthroughs in printing techniques allowed publishers to print less costly books and produce illustrations more easily As is the case with the reading public today people then not only wanted to read about places, but also see pictures of those places described in the books. That is how a new product that blended literature and journalism with drawing and the then new art of photography came about The pages in those books were interspersed with illustrations of landscapes, monuments, folk customs and traditions. Those works have traditionally appeared in periodical publications such as illustrated magazines and journals, and from the early days publishers have reserved the book format for grander occasions, while magazines became the proper format for more routine information. Books were the appropriate vehicle for the publication of art. In them, reports of special relevance appeared. Such reports were produced with the intention of withstanding the inexorable passing of time. This is how illustrated travel books (we are not referring here to that other sub-genre, the travel guide) have become an artistic product the result of a combination of the work of a respected writer and a respected illustrator (as used to be the case), or as is almost always the case today a photographer aided by the craft of fine book designers and fine printers. As publishers, we can be proud of this Serrania de Ronda by Felipe Reyes and Carlos Serrano. We believe that both have produced a very original work in which a new, and at the same time. 191 pages.

Seller Inventory # WB028441

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Serrania de Ronda: Cuaderno de Ruta/Route Log
• Publication Date: 1999
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: VG
• Dust Jacket Condition: VG
• Seller catalogs:
  • TRAVEL::Europe::General