DAUMIER, HonoreBiblio.com
Daumier, Honore; Ghirardelli, YnezBiblio.com
THE ARTIST H. DAUMIER Interpreter of History
1940182427San Francisco: The Grabhorn Press 1940. Pp. vi80last blank20 plates notes; demy folio; maroon boards gilt lettered black label on spine the boards faded and lightly flecked edges and corners worn; fore-edges uncut; book label of David Levine Sydney on upper pastedown hinge tender at one point the leaves lightly browned; The Grabhorn Press San Francisco 1940. One of 250 copies. Daumier was a French painter sculptor and printmaker whose many works offer commentary on the social and political life in France from the Revolution of 1830 to the fall of the Second French Empire in 1870. A prolific artist he produced more than 100 sculptures 500 paintings 1000 drawings 1000 wood engravings and 4000 lithographs. The Grabhorn Press unknown
