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182583365Paris: N. DelangleLadvocatRapilly 1825. Fine. N. Delangle Ladvocat Rapilly Paris 1825-1829 10.20 x 15.50 cm 12 volumes reliés Collective edition dedicated to Duchesse de Berry issued at 500 copies one of 25 copies on hollande. Half long-grained Bradel morocco binding. Smooth spine elaborately gilt lengthwise title lettered in gilt gilt date at foot original green covers preserved except for Les Poésies de Charles Nodier bound without original covers and Poesies de madame Evelines Desormery bound with its covers without the original spine untrimmed. Elegant Romantic imitation bindings signed Carayon. A very fine set rare in this condition. Complete 8-volume collection edited and prefaced for every volume by Charles Nodier: Voyage de Chapelle et Bachaumont La Guirlande de Julie par M. de Montausier Diverses poésies du Chevalier d'Aceilly Conjuration du Comte de Fiesque par le Cardinal de Retz Oeuvres choisies de Sénécé Oeuvres choisies de Sarrasin Madrigaux de Monsieur de la Sablière Relation des campagne de Rocroi et de Fribourg par Henri de Bessé. It includes 4 additional volumes not belonging to the collection Fables de Fénelon Rapilly 1826 Poesies diverses de Charles Nodier Delangle et Ladvocat 1827 Poesies de madame Evelines Desormery Delangle 1828 Esquisses poetiques par Edouard Turquety Delangle 1829. Signed and inscribed by Charles Nodier to Alphonse de Cailleux on the half-title of his collection of poems in first edition: ""Si ce petit livre valait la peine d'être offert je l'aurais offert à mon bon ami Alphonse de Cailleux"" If this little book were ever worth offering I would offer it to my good friend Alphonse de Cailleux. A very fine set of Romantic bindings by Carayon one of the most important bookbinders of the late 19th century. N. DelangleLadvocatRapilly unknown
1820001923Paris: Chez Ladvocat Libraire 1820 1820. FIRST FRENCH EDITION. 2 vols. 6-3/4" x 4-1/4" with the half-titles without the publishers 4pp. ads otherwise complete bound in contemporary 1/4 maroon calf gilt decorated spines vellum back corners contemporary engraved bookplate of Madam Barante inner and outer hinges fine head and foot of spines fine spines slightly sunned internally clean and bright. First edition in French of Polidori's Vampires. This work often mistakenly attributed to Charles Nodier author of the preliminary observations signed with his initials is by Cyprien Berard then director of the Theater de Vaudeville. He points out the popularity that the vampire had conquered at the end of the 18th century: "the frightening fable of the vampires could not fail to be consecrated among all the nations which received it in their belief. I have no doubt that the public grants like me another kind of rarer and more estimable merit to this novel.". France therefore lacked a literary production on vampires! Berard's work comes at the right time.It is by far the most interesting text that the first generation of French Romantics wrote." Florent Montaclair in: The Vampire in French Literature 1820-1868 p. 109. SCARCE - RBH locate only two copies ever appearing at auction. Paris: Chez Ladvocat, Libraire, 1820 hardcover
182882546Paris: Delangle frères 1828. Fine. Delangle frères Paris 1828 13 x 21 cm relié First edition. Cntemporary marbled roan binding smooth spine with partialy faded roll-tooled and ruled gilt motifs burgundy roan title-label spine-ends restored joints restored at head and foot marbled paper pastedowns and endpapers gilt ruled leading edges upper corners bent marbled edges. Some minor foxing browned leaves printed library stamp and pencil annotations to one endpaper. Provenance: Louis Humbert library with his bookplate on front pastedown. Rare signed inscription by Charles Nodier to the royalist journalist disciple of Félicité de La Mennais staunch critic of Romanticism Pierre-Sébastien Laurentie: ""A Monsieur Laurentie son dévoué Charles Nodier."" Delangle frères unknown
1830003188Paris: Louis Janet 1830. First Edition. Velvet on Boards. Full Morocco Slipcase. Near Fine. 12mo. 16.5 by 10.5 cm. clvii 44 1 pp. With five hand-colored and illuminated plates including title plus illuminated devices and decoration elsewhere. While the plates are printed the coloring and illumination is such that it is a fine simularcrum of manuscript illumination. This work is in fact a literary hoax simulating a Medieval Romance but in fact penned by Michel and promoted by the extensive notes and annotations that follow the chronicles. The leaves are a light vellum and this edition was issued with luxuriant unusual bindings such as the navy blue velvet of this one. Louis Janet unknown
183659408Undated around 1836. 1 leaf 8vo. on light-blue paper. 16 lines and signed "Tout á vous et de coeur/ Charles Nodier" The letter seems to deal with Alexander Dumas' novel "Voyages de Gabriel Payot". On verso of the letter is transscribed in Nodier's hand "Monsieur Alexandre Dumas/ cour d'Orleans No 3./ Paris". Marks after folding. Faint scattered brownspots. unknown
188712384Paris: G. Charpentier 1887. 2 aquatints after drawing by A. Ferdinandus enraved by F. Massé. 369 pp. 11.5 x 8 cms. 12mo bound by Lucette Lévy in full brown morocco elaborately tooled in gilt on both sides and spine with a lattice pattern with in a border on each side and spine the cetnre of each lozenge with a gilt flower tool spine lettered in gilt doublures with a matrix of flower tools with in two gilt fillet borders watersilk free endpapers original wrappers bound in. With the original chemise. A very handsome book in excellent condition.In the 1920s many women were drawn to the medium of bookbinding perhaps influenced by the new modernist designs forged by Pierre Legrain. The women included the widows of bookbinders killed in the war and a hwole new enterprising generation of young women who were searching for a fashionable vocation in teh arts. As the Ecole Estienne was reserved ofr men may women enrolled at the city’s Ecole et Les Ateliers d’Art Decoratif which had been founded in 1894. It is very probable that Lucette Lévy was among them. Binding instruction was offered first by Mme Rene Sergent and later by Lapersonne Choffe and Genevieve de Leotard. On completion of the 4 year course graduates sought employment in the city’s main binding workshops or set out to establish themselves independently. <br>Although we cannot find any details about her apart from occasional bindings which have appeared in the rooms viz. Christie’s 2009 and a couple of bindings in booksellers’ catalogues Lucette Lévy was clearly extremely talented with great technical ability like Adler she inclined to familiarising herself with the text and illustrations in a book to create an accord with it in her binding. She was varied and adaptive in her styles and was inventive with fonts for lettering and ways of binding throughout the 1920s and 1930s. G. Charpentier unknown
1830004720Paris: Louis Janet 1830. First Edition. Cloth. Full Straight-Grained Morocco Slipcase. Near Fine. 12mo. 16.5 by 10.5 cm. clvii 44 1 pp. With five hand-colored and illuminated plates including title plus illuminated devices and decoration elsewhere. While the plates are printed the coloring and illumination is such that it is a fine simularcrum of manuscript illumination. This work is in fact a literary hoax simulating a Medieval Romance but in fact penned by Michel and promoted by the extensive notes and annotations that follow the chronicles. The leaves are a light vellum and this copy has a resplendent decorative green cloth relief with a rich gilt background that is quite distinctive. Pink moire endpapers. Lovely gilt decoration including border on the straight-grained morocco slipcase. A few light fox marks but essentially clean and mostly pristine. Minor rubbing of the gilt on the spine and other trivial manifestations of wear. Louis Janet unknown
184472367Paris: Imprimerie Royale 1844. Fine. Imprimerie Royale Paris 1844 19 x 29 cm relié First edition never put into commerce intended for members of the royal family and state dignitaries. It is printed on strong vellum the only issue with 6 on China paper. Work illustrated with 200 vignettes in the text and 40 out-of-text figures engraved on wood printed before letters on applied China paper by Raffet Decamps Dauzat. Our copy is complete with its folding map at the end Route de Philippeville à Alger. Fine work very well printed with high quality engravings. Publisher's Bradel binding covered with chamois paper chamois slipcase probably later. Smooth spine with beige calf title label. Spine slightly darkened with damage to the title label and at two places on the spine. Rubbing at foot revealing the white underneath. Some occasional foxing notably to tissue guards on perfectly white paper. The captions for the plates are found at the bottom of the tissue guards. Book recounting the Duke of Orléans' expedition to Algeria in 1839. It was written by the writer Charles Nodier based on notes taken by the young prince. Major account of the conquest of Algeria. Handsome copy full-margined in its original boards. Imprimerie Royale hardcover
183673568Paris: Au bureau de La Publication 1836. Fine. Au bureau de La Publication Paris 1836 14.50 x 22.50 cm relié First edition. Half red shagreen binding spine with four raised bands decorated with gilt fillets and ornate triple gilt compartments with gilt stars at their centers red paper boards marginally faded speckled paper endpapers and pastedowns contemporary binding. Some foxing. Very rare copy complete with its 46 engraved plates and 4 folding maps at the end of the volume. Au bureau de La Publication hardcover
189874614Paris: Imprimerie Champenoispour CH. MassonH. Piazza 1898. Fine. Imprimerie Champenois pour CH. Masson H. Piazza Paris Décembre 1898 23 x 35 cm une feuille et une serpente Rare original lithograph executed by Patrice Dillon for L'Estampe Moderne series number 20 published in December 1898. One of 50 deluxe proofs printed on Japan paper with wide margins artist's signature in the plate publisher's dry stamp depicting a child's profile in the lower margin numbered stamp of the deluxe printing on the reverse; engraving preceded by a tissue guard captioned with the artist's name title and an extract from a work. Lithograph inspired by an extract from Polichinelle by Charles Nodier reproduced on the print's tissue guard. Magnificent French monthly publication edited between May 1897 and April 1899 L'Estampe moderne consists of original chromolithographs which unlike other magazines such as Les Maîtres de l'Affiche and as stipulated on the tissue guards were created specifically by each artist for the magazine. Thus 100 prints appeared in total covering the major artistic movements of the late 19th century: Symbolism Art Nouveau Pre-Raphaelites Orientalists and Belle Époque. Each issue of four prints was printed in 2000 copies sold for 3.50F and 100 on Japan paper offered at 10F. Henri Piazza also planned a confidential printing of very grand luxury: 50 copies on Japan paper with wide margins and 50 in black on China paper at the considerable price of 30F. This print of beautiful format is superbly printed on the most prestigious of papers: Japan paper. Thick silky satiny and pearlescent it contributes to making each page a complete work in itself. Its quality of ink absorption and its affinity with colors also make it the ideal medium for these very beautiful lithographs. French collectors' interest in artistic posters intensified at the beginning of the 1890s. Octave Uzanne to describe this fever invented the term ""affichomanie."" The poster originally popular and posted in the streets of the capital then became an art object and its ephemeral medium became precious and devoted to preservation. Piazza decided to remove the poster from its advertising vocation and elevate it to the rank of a complete work of art in the same way as the illustrated luxury book. He thus composed a prestigious collection of entirely original works by the most prominent European artists of the moment: Georges de Feure Eugène Grasset Henri Detouche Emile Berchmans Louis Rhead Gaston de Latenay Lucien Lévy-Dhurmer Gustave-Max Stevens Charles Doudelet Hans Christiansen Henri Fantin-Latour Steinlen Ibels Engels Willette Henri Meunier Evenepoël Bellery-Desfontaines Charles Léandre etc. Handsome copy. Imprimerie Champenoispour CH. MassonH. Piazza unknown
180257986Paris 1802. Uncut in original pink blank wrappers inserted in contemp. stiff marbled wrappers and kept in a custom made box in hmorocco spine with gilt title. I-IV5-8 pp. A few brownspots. <br/><br/><em>Extremely scarce first edition of the authors napoleonic satire which landed him in jail when printed. It circulated in manuscript anonymously before it went into print. </em> unknown
183087993Paris: Delangle frères 1830. Fine. Delangle frères Paris 1830 14 x 23 cm relié First edition illustrated with 50 in-text vignettes engraved on wood by Porret after Tony Johannot. Full blue morocco binding with corners spine with five raised bands set with gilt dots and decorated with double gilt compartments richly decorated gilt fillet frame on marbled paper boards combed paper endpapers and pastedowns top edge gilt binding signed David. Spine and boards slightly and marginally faded some traces of rubbing to spine. Copy free from foxing. Delangle frères hardcover
1827693791827. A Paris chez J.-S. Merlin Libraire 1827. iiii58iipp. 399 items described. Uncut. Original pink wrappers. pp. 41-48 with a light waterstain in the margin Charles Nodier 1780-1844 settled in Paris after he had been appointed librarian of the Arsenal library in 1824. There he soon became one of the leaders of the literary life in Paris. He assembled three collections which were not very large but contained only carefully chosen books. In the Grolier Club catalogue of French auction sales # 595 is mentioned that "Lonchamp records that Noder compiled this catalogue himself; according to Graesse many of the lots sold for extremely low prices". Rare catalogue. unknown
189579616Paris: Librairie L. Conquet 1895. Fine. Librairie L. Conquet Paris 1895 15.50 x 24 cm relié First illustrated edition with 33 compositions by Léon Morin in colors. Unique printing of 200 copies on white Marais vellum numbered and initialed by the publisher. Half cherry red morocco mosaic with green and brown corners signed A. Taffin at the top of the first endpaper. Smooth spine with 2 floral compositions in green and brown mosaic in mirror pattern and a central tool with satyr bust. Title within gilt frame date at foot. Dividing fillets on boards. Light rubbing traces on joints. Covers preserved. Uncut copy with full margins. Very handsome copy of this charming illustrated work. Preface by Maurice de Tourneux who tells the story of this work and reproduces the original preface of the book a dialogue between publisher and author. This youthful novel telling a love story borrows unusual narrative techniques that look toward Sterne and Diderot and questions the status of narrative fiction in the early 19th century. Librairie L. Conquet hardcover
18272387Paris: Merlin / Crapelet 1827-1829. FIRST AND ONLY EDITION OF THE EXTREMELY RARE CATALOGUE OF THE FIRST SALE OF NODIER'S LIBRARY held to provide a dowry for his daughter. 2 ii 60 pp; 399 lots. BOUND WITH NODIER'S CELEBRATED "Mélanges tirés d'une petite bibliothèque" a fascinating collection of 52 bibliographic studies. 3 viii 428 pp. Both books printed on fine laid paper. 8vo. Beautifully bound in contemporary quarter calf and decorated boards. Spine gilt in five compartments. Light wear to extremities of binding. Internally bright and fine. Scarce. <br/><br/> Merlin / Crapelet hardcover
1821elala151Paris: J.N.Barba 1821. 1821. 12mo. pp. 334 1. 3 hand-coloured engraved plates incl. frontis. folding lithographed map & 3 wood-engraved vignettes 1 on title by M.Thompson. woodcut tailpieces. contemporary half calf joints cracked. bookplate of Robert de Billy diplomat writer & friend of Proust. First Edition. The French writer and librarian visited Brighton London Oxford Edinburgh Glasgow Loch-Lomond Luss Ben-Lomond and Ayr and comments on theatre museums the Greenwich Docks architecture &c. The hand-coloured plates include a frontispiece of a clan chieftan and two of natural history subjects after drawings by Bory de St. Vincent. Vicaire VI 99-100. 1st Edition. Paris: J.N.Barba, 1821. unknown
183873845Paris: S. n. 1838. Fine. S. n. Paris 1838 17 x 23.50 cm broché First edition printed in a small number of copies on laid paper of this auction catalogue listing the works comprising René-Charles Guilbert de Pixerécourt's library. Vignette depicting Pixérécourt's engraved bookplate on the title page. Spine cracked with lacks boards detached handsome interior condition. S. n. hardcover
180873566Paris: Demonville 1808. Fine. Demonville Paris 1808 12.50 x 20.50 cm relié First edition. Half brown calf binding with corners smooth spine decorated with gilt typographical motifs gilt friezes at head and foot navy blue calf title label gilt fillet on marbled paper boards speckled paper endpapers and pastedowns marbled edges contemporary binding. Handsome copy attractively bound in contemporary binding. Demonville hardcover
185977743Paris: Magnin Blanchard & Compagnie 1859. Fine. Magnin Blanchard & Compagnie Paris 1859 19 x 28.30 cm relié New illustrated edition with 8 etchings by Tony Johannot bearing the artist's name engraved with the point on China paper mounted. These illustrations belong to the first illustrated edition of 1845 2 are artist's proofs without Johannot's name added by him. Printed on laid paper. Half old red shagreen binding with corners signed Petit at the top of the first endpaper. Spine with raised bands richly decorated with elaborately gilt compartments. Red shagreen title label. Top edge gilt. Uncut copy full-margined perfectly fresh. Spine slightly faded. Handsome copy from the sale of Jacques Crépineau's library without his bookplate but with a bookmark from L'Etude Ader reproducing the bookplate 11/10/2021. Director of the Michodière theater and theater historian he held a famous collection of Romantic books. List of tales: Trilby - Le songe d'or - Baptiste Montauban - La fée aux miettes - La combe de l'homme mort - Inès de las sierras - Smara - La neuvaine de la chandeleur - La légende de la soeur Béatrix. Magnin, Blanchard & Compagnie hardcover
183877696Paris: Bourgueleret 1838. Fine. Bourgueleret Paris 1838 14.50 x 22.50 cm relié Bilingual illustrated edition in first printing translated by Charles Nodier with the English text facing. Notice by Charles Nodier. 10 plates by Johannot on heavy laid paper before letters and more than one hundred vignettes. Printed on fine tinted laid paper. A frontispiece on China paper mounted on heavy laid paper. Text within ruled borders. Full glazed midnight blue calf binding. Smooth spine decorated with long mirror tools. Boards stamped in blind with a large Cathedral plate with foliate scrollwork motifs that seem to reproduce the front cover. Edges gilt. Interior border. Fresh overall but foxing on the frontispiece and title leaf. Traces of rubbing. One upper edge slightly bumped over 0.5cm. The figure p. 341 is missing. Captioned tissue guards present. Handsome copy in a full contemporary binding. The plate used for the boards seems particularly well suited to the work cathedral motifs softened by ornaments foliage and other elements. Bourgueleret hardcover
1830272681830. Paris Delangle FrÂres 1830. Un vol. au format in-8 222 x 142 mm de 1 f. bl. 2 ff. n.fol. 598 pp. et 1 f. bl. Reliure postÂŽrieure de pleine toile azur dos lisse ornÂŽ de filets dorÂŽs piÂce de titre de maroquin ÂŽbÂne titre dorÂŽ. Edition originale rare. Elle s'agrÂŽmente de 50 vignettes sur bois dans le texte par Tony Johannot et a ici conservÂŽ de larges tÂŽmoins. Exemplaire sur papier cavalier vÂŽlin d'Annonay. ''De ce livre date la rÂŽnovation de l'illustration ˆ l'aide de gravures sur bois''. in Rahir. ''Ce volume l'un des mieux gravÂŽs sur bois de la pÂŽriode romantique est malheureusement presque toujours assez fortement roussi. Certains exemplaires fortement et uniformÂŽment roussis ont pu Âtre vendus comme exemplaires sur papier chamois''. in Clouzot. Pourtant. : ''L'Histoire du roi de BohÂme et de ses sept ch‰teaux se vendit si peu que Delangle dut liquider sa maison d'ÂŽdition''. in AdhÂŽmar. ''La gravure exÂŽcutÂŽe avec une grande finesse fait pressentir la largeur d'exÂŽcution que nous trouverons pour la premiÂre fois dans le Gil Blas illustrÂŽ par Jean Gigoux quelques annÂŽes aprÂs''. in Brivois. ''Porret a finement gravÂŽ les compositions de Tony Johannot. Cette merveilleuse exÂŽcution marque en 1830 la date de la rÂŽnovation de la gravure sur bois qui va se poursuivre en 1835 avec le Gil Blas de Gigoux''. in Carteret. ''Le gožt pour l'image dans le public est tel que les ÂŽditeurs avisÂŽs tels que Delangle ou Hetzel demandent d'abord des illustrations ˆ un artiste et font ensuite seulement imaginer par une histoire ˆ un homme de lettres qui s'inspire des illustrations pour la raconter. C'est le cas du Roi de BohÂme et surtout de celui du Voyage o il vous plaira''. in AdhÂŽmar. ''Ë partir des annÂŽes 1830 gr‰ce ˆ la mise au point du procÂŽdÂŽ de la lithographie et de la gravure sur bois de bout permettant d'obtenir une finesse comparable ˆ celle de la gravure sur cuivre sans nÂŽcessiter un deuxiÂme passage en machine l'ÂŽdition conna”t une prolifÂŽration d'images de plus en plus ÂŽtroitement associÂŽes au texte. Un livre illustrÂŽ peut dÂŽsormais compter une centaine de planches. C'est dans ce contexte que para”t l'Histoire du roi de BohÂme et de ses sept ch‰teaux de Charles Nodier. Cette Ãuvre originale est le fruit de la collaboration de l'auteur avec l'artiste Tony Johannot qui exploite les possibilitÂŽs qu'offrent les nouvelles techniques. Si le livre ne suscite guÂre d'enthousiasme au moment de sa publication il marque le point de dÂŽpart d'une nouvelle relation entre le texte et l'image comme de celle de l'ÂŽcrivain avec l'artiste. En effet la nature mÂme de l'ouvrage tÂŽmoigne d'une communautÂŽ de vues et d'une ÂŽtroite collaboration entre les deux hommes.Ê Dans l'Histoire du roi de BohÂme et de ses sept ch‰teaux on trouve en effet une vÂŽritable interpÂŽnÂŽtration du texte et de l'image qui se mÂlent au point de devenir mutuellement paraphrastiques. Les vignettes sont librement insÂŽrÂŽes entre les lignes selon la fantaisie de l'ÂŽcrivain ou de l'illustrateur. L'image et le texte deviennent complices au service d'une imagination doublÂŽe d'un humour proche de la dÂŽrision. L'histoire sans queue ni tÂte se soumet aux ressources fantaisistes d'un langage dÂŽbridÂŽ quitte ˆ plonger dans l'incohÂŽrence et l'invraisemblance romanesque. Image et texte jouent ensemble unis par une malicieuse complicitÂŽ dans laquelle ils semblent constamment se relayer avec espiÂglerie souffler sans cesse sur les braises d'un imaginaire au galop. Ainsi de cette chevauchÂŽe fantastique o l'intensitÂŽ qui soulÂve au-dessus du sol les deux montures enfiÂŽvrÂŽes para”t rivaliser avec la fougue d'un texte emportÂŽ par une fuite irrÂŽpressible au bord du vide.'' Bruno Blasselle et CÂŽcile Cayol in L'Image en libertÂŽ une expÂŽrience originale. Barbier IV Dictionnaire des ouvrages anonymes 790-f - Clouzot Guide du bibliophile franÂais p. 130 - Escoffier Le Mouvement romantique 839 - Brivois Bibliographie des ouvrages illustrÂŽs du XIXÂme p. 306 - Vicaire VI Manuel de l'amateur de livres du XIXÂme 106 - Carteret III Le TrÂŽsor du bibliophile romantique et moderne p. 430 - QuÂŽrard VI La France littÂŽraire p. 423 - Rahir La BibliothÂque de l'amateur p. 562 - AdhÂŽmar Le Livre romantique p. 41. Quelques piqžres ÂŽparses. Du reste belle condition. b42961 unknown
189874615Paris: Imprimerie Champenoispour CH. MassonH. Piazza 1898. Fine. Imprimerie Champenois pour CH. Masson H. Piazza Paris Décembre 1898 23 x 35 cm une feuille Rare original lithograph executed by Paul-César Helleu for L'Estampe Moderne series number 20 published in December 1898. One of 50 deluxe proofs printed on China paper with wide margins artist's signature in the plate publisher's dry stamp depicting a child's profile in the lower margin mounted on a sheet of laid paper with the numbered stamp of the deluxe printing on the reverse some foxing. Lithograph inspired by an extract from Polichinelle by Charles Nodier. Magnificent French monthly publication edited between May 1897 and April 1899 L'Estampe moderne consists of original chromolithographs which unlike other magazines such as Les Maîtres de l'Affiche and as stipulated on the tissue guards were created specifically by each artist for the magazine. Thus 100 prints appeared in total covering the major artistic movements of the late 19th century: Symbolism Art Nouveau Pre-Raphaelites Orientalists and Belle Epoque. Each issue of four prints was printed in 2000 copies sold for 3.50F and 100 on Japan paper offered at 10F. Henri Piazza also planned a confidential printing of very grand luxury: 50 copies on Japan paper with wide margins and 50 in black on China paper at the considerable price of 30F. This print of beautiful format is superbly printed on one of the most prestigious papers: China paper. ""Despite all its qualities China paper too inconsistent owes its reputation not to its own beauty but to its particular affinities with printing ink. Its texture smooth and soft together is more apt than any other to receive a beautiful printing. This property makes China paper sought after for printing engravings."" Anatole France. French collectors' interest in artistic posters intensified at the beginning of the 1890s. Octave Uzanne to describe this fever invented the term ""affichomanie."" The poster originally popular and posted in the streets of the capital then became an art object and its ephemeral medium became precious and devoted to preservation. Piazza decided to remove the poster from its advertising vocation and elevate it to the rank of a complete work of art in the same way as the illustrated luxury book. He thus composed a prestigious collection of entirely original works by the most prominent European artists of the moment: Georges de Feure Eugène Grasset Henri Detouche Emile Berchmans Louis Rhead Gaston de Latenay Lucien Lévy-Dhurmer Gustave-Max Stevens Charles Doudelet Hans Christiansen Henri Fantin-Latour Steinlen Ibels Engels Willette Henri Meunier Evenepoël Bellery-Desfontaines Charles Léandre etc. Handsome copy. Imprimerie Champenoispour CH. MassonH. Piazza unknown
1836biblio261<p><em>Two volumes. Quarto. Chez Amable Costes. Paris. 1836/1837. </em><em>Complete set with 135 copper engraved plates and two folding engraved maps. </em><em>Premier Partie: viij 56 16 48 28 48 24pp. Engraved half title title section titles folding map slightly darkened to edge 51 copper engraved plates as listed in tables des matières et indication des figures; </em><em>Deuxieme Partie: 136 80 64 64pp. Title section titles 84 copper engraved plates as listed in tables des matieres et indication des figures plus one extra folding map. </em><em>Contemporary quarter morocco faux shagreen vellum corner tips. Spines in six compartments gilt lettering and decoration gilt faded to base of spine Vol. I. Marbled endpapers. All edges blue. Crisp and bright occasional light toning to text. Light shelf wear. A desirable set.</em></p><p><em>Carte Routiere de l'Italie dressee par Th. Duvotenay eleve de M.P.Lapie publiee par Amable Costes 1836.</em></p><p><em>Second map grave Flahaut; ecrit par Arnoul.</em></p> Chez Amable Costes hardcover
184151249Paris: J. Techener 1841. Fine. J. Techener Paris 1841 - relié Revised and expanded edition by Paul-Louis Jacob and enhanced with an original literary notice by Charles Nodier one of the rare copies printed on Dutch laid paper. Half red morocco binding with corners spine with four fine raised bands set with gilt garlands decorated with gilt compartments adorned in the grotesque style triple black fillets on marbled paper boards marbled endpapers and pastedowns top edge gilt elegant contemporary binding signed by Lebrun. A trace of a bookplate cleanly removed from one pastedown. Rare and handsome copy beautifully bound. J. Techener hardcover
181226428Paris: Barba Libraire 1812 1812. First edition. Freeman Bibliotheca Fictivia 1639. Boards darkened; some light foxing; very good copy. 8vo later tan boards red leather label gilt rules and lettering. Half-title present. A scarce study of literary forgery by French author antiquary and bibliophile Charles Nodier 1780-1844 who was also apparently well versed in the subject: "The French C19 saw Charles Nodier whose Questions de Littérature Légale . . . is a minor classic of forgery criticism repeatedly poise on the borderlines of fiction and fraud - another gamekeeper turned poacher." - Freeman page 62. ¶ Contemporary signature on the title-page of Greek scholar and publisher Jean-François Boissonade 1774-1857. Paris: Barba, Libraire, 1812 unknown
