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18395976Paris: Chez Aubert 1839-40. First edition. The great Parisian caricaturists of the mid-19th-century: Daumier Gavarni Grandville Travies and others represented with original lithographs illustrating short prose pieces by Alhoy Huart and Philipon. 27 cm; 3 volumes in two. 150 lithographs including 45 by Daumier among them 27 from "Croquis d'expression" and 42 by Gavarni. Half titles present. Plates not colored in. Bound in recent green crushed morocco over marbled boards ruled in gilt; spines titled in gilt. Marbled edges. Endleaves foxed; some scattered toning. Overall a clean copy. References: Ray #164 "one of the freshest and most attractive of romantic illustrated books"; Carteret III 426-27. Chez Aubert hardcover books
02253Paris: Chez Aubert 1839. With 150 Hand-Colored Lithographs<br/>including Forty-Five by Honoré Daumier and Forty-Two by Gavarni<br/><br/>DAUMIER Honoré Gavarni and others illustrators. ALHOY Maurice Louis Huart and Charles Philipon editors. Le Musée pour rire. Dessins par tous les caricaturistes de Paris; Texte par MM. Maurice Alhoy Louis Huart et Ch. Philipon. Paris: Chez Aubert Editeur des Cent-et-Un Robert-Macaire 1839-1840.<br/><br/>First edition. Three quarto volumes bound in one 10 x 7 5/8 in; 251 x 193 mm. 1 half-title 2 title 600 pp. With 150 numbered hand-colored lithographs heightened with gum arabic by Honoré Daumier forty-five Gavarni forty-two Frédéric Bouchot twenty-two Victor Adam ten Platier seven Benjamin i.e. Benjamin Roubaud four Bourdet three Pruche three Platel two Grandville two Edme-Jean Pigal two Alophe Menut two Charles Vernier two Charles-Joseph Traviès one and others.<br/><br/>Bound ca. 1886-1890 by James Screeton of Hull with label to rear pastedown half black pebbled morocco over gray-brown cloth. Elaborately gilt tooled compartments gilt-rolled raised bands. All edges gilt. Some foxing and toning throughout but still a very good copy.<br/><br/>"The house of Aubert was ingenious in marketing its products. Its lithographs.were published one by one in periodicals like Le charivari and together in suites by the same artist without letterpress. Still a third form of publication was in albums made up of lithographs by several artists with accompanying texts. These collections most commonly took the form of volumes with the generic title Paris comique which consisted of twenty colored lithographs accompanied by quite unrelated texts. Aubert remarked that the resulting hodgepodge had ‘a plan that is easy to follow for it consists in not having any' and in fact this was indeed a frugal procedure for reusing old texts and already published plates. The interest of the various volumes of Paris comique resides entirely in the lithographs they happen to contain. It can be considerable however since Daumier and Gavarni are the predominant artists. Le musée pour rire represents a more considerable effort on the part of Aubert. To accompany 150 lithographs including forty-five by Daumier among them twenty-seven from Croquis d'expressions and eight from La galerie physionomique and forty-two by Gavarni new commentaries were commissioned on each plate all except two by Alhoy and Huart. Daumier's lithographs were trimmed slightly and their captions were relettered. The designs of the other artists were provided with decorative frames. The whole was then published in three handsome volumes and in copies with expert contemporary coloring like this one Le musée pour rire is among the freshest and most attractive of romantic illustrated books" Ray The Art of the French Illustrated Book.<br/><br/>Le Musée pour Rire "contained 150 lithographs by Daumier Gavarni Bouchot Traviès etc. These are re-impressions some of them in mirror image which had previously already been used for publication in Le Charivari. Most prints of the series ‘Croquis d'expressions' are contained in the book. The name of the series is missing and the texts were printed in a different type than in the original Charivari version. We do not consider these prints original lithographies but rather prints ‘after Daumier'". <br/><br/>James Screeton was the son of bookbinder William Screeton of Hull. It appears that he was partner of binder William Wardell until opened his own shop in 1886. <br/><br/>Ray The Art of the French Illustrated Book 164. Paris: Chez Aubert, 1839 unknown books
04829Paris: Chez Aubert 1839. With 50 Hand-Colored Lithographs<br/>including Nine by Honoré Daumier and Fifteen by Gavarni<br/><br/>DAUMIER Honoré Gavarni and others illustrators. ALHOY Maurice Louis Huart and Charles Philipon editors. Le Musée pour rire. Dessins par tous les caricaturistes de Paris; Texte par MM. Maurice Alhoy Louis Huart et Ch. Philipon. Paris: Chez Aubert Editeur des Cent-et-Un Robert-Macaire 1839<br/><br/>Volume II only of 3. First edition. Quarto 10 3/8 x 8 1/8 inches; 265 x 207 mm. i-ii half-title verso blank iii-iv title verso blank v-vi Table 200 pp. With 50 numbered 51-100 hand-colored lithographs heightened with gum arabic by Honoré Daumier nine Gavarni fifteen Frédéric Bouchot seventeen Benjamin i.e. Benjamin Roubaud four Bourdet three Grandville one and Edme-Jean Pigal one. Heavy spotting in places but mainly to text leaves. Plates generally clean.<br/><br/>Publisher's silk patterned paper over boards covers decoratively stamped in gilt smooth spine decoratively stamped and titled in gilt. Rebacked with the original spine laid down. With the engraved bookplate of author and collector Jaques Robiquet on front paste-down. <br/><br/>A reasonably priced album containing fine hand-colored lithographs of Bouchot Daumier & Gavarni etc. etc.<br/><br/>"The house of Aubert was ingenious in marketing its products. Its lithographs.were published one by one in periodicals like Le charivari and together in suites by the same artist without letterpress. Still a third form of publication was in albums made up of lithographs by several artists with accompanying texts. These collections most commonly took the form of volumes with the generic title Paris comique which consisted of twenty colored lithographs accompanied by quite unrelated texts. Aubert remarked that the resulting hodgepodge had ‘a plan that is easy to follow for it consists in not having any' and in fact this was indeed a frugal procedure for reusing old texts and already published plates. The interest of the various volumes of Paris comique resides entirely in the lithographs they happen to contain. It can be considerable however since Daumier and Gavarni are the predominant artists. Le musée pour rire represents a more considerable effort on the part of Aubert. To accompany 150 lithographs including forty-five by Daumier among them twenty-seven from Croquis d'expressions and eight from La galerie physionomique and forty-two by Gavarni new commentaries were commissioned on each plate all except two by Alhoy and Huart. Daumier's lithographs were trimmed slightly and their captions were relettered. The designs of the other artists were provided with decorative frames. The whole was then published in three handsome volumes and in copies with expert contemporary coloring like this one Le musée pour rire is among the freshest and most attractive of romantic illustrated books" Ray The Art of the French Illustrated Book.<br/><br/>Le Musée pour Rire "contained 150 lithographs by Daumier Gavarni Bouchot Traviès etc. These are re-impressions some of them in mirror image which had previously already been used for publication in Le Charivari. Most prints of the series ‘Croquis d'expressions' are contained in the book. The name of the series is missing and the texts were printed in a different type than in the original Charivari version. We do not consider these prints original lithographies but rather prints ‘after Daumier'". <br/><br/>Ray The Art of the French Illustrated Book 164. Paris: Chez Aubert, 1839 unknown books
1845169114Paris: Hetzel 1845. hardcover. very good. Paris et les Parisiens. 2 volumes 380pp 363pp numerous text vignettes and full page woodcut illustrations scattered foxing original 1/2 black calf ornately gilt spine marbled boards rubbed and endpapers. Paris: J. Hetzel 1845-6. First Edition. Very Good.<br/><br/> The texts made up of stories and dialogues with Parisian subjects are by well known writers including Balzac Gautier de Musset and Georges Sand.<br/><br/> Hetzel unknown books
18468462Paris: J. Hetzel 1846. First Edition. Page size: 10-1/2" x 7". I lxxx 363pp; II xxxii 380pp; in two text volumes; numerous vignettes 212 illustrations in two plate volumes; contemporary quarter deep blue-green morocco over marbled boards title and volume in gilt on the spine marbled endpapers. Minor rubbing to the extremities limited abrading to the marbling causing loss in a few small areas boards exposed at the corners 1" band of discoloration to the front board beginning at ½" from the top edge and descending 8" but pronounced only near the top impression from the half-binding of another volume on the front board of Volume III hinges beginning to show on Volumes I and II occasional foxing and minor discoloration.<br/> Gordon Ray in The Art of the French Illustrated Book describes this title as „something of a potpourri". The texts are by well-known writers including Balzac Gauthier Musset George Sand and the publisher Hetzel. Although there are historical geographical and statistical details about the city of Paris the bulk of the text is made up of stories and dialogues with Parisian subjects. The illustrations are wood engravings. Ray states the "most impressive are the 208 .after Gavarni." Sulpice-Guillaume Chevallier known as Gavarni also worked in lithography. In either medium his psychological portraits were telling. Ray especially praises his wood engravings for this title however noting that they were superior to much of his other work and all new conceptions not versions of his lithos. Hetzel imposed unity on the texts and images by presenting them as documents bearing on the Devil's visitation of Paris. This is the culmination of the Romantic tradition of diablerie and the last of the big books of collaboration. Ray The Art of the French Illustrated Book #236. J. Hetzel unknown books
185791052Paris: Paulin et Lechevalier 1857. First Edition. hardcover. near fine. Frontispiece portrait fully illustrated in black and white 267pp. slim 8vo 1/2 green morocco pebbled green cloth gilt-stamped raised bands ornately gilt spine a.e.g. Paris: Paulin et Lechevalier 1857. Near fine.<br/><br/> Paulin et Lechevalier unknown books
194445985Paris 1944. paperback. very good. 96 plates. 27pp. of text. Large 8vo original printed wrapperssoiled corner torn; internally fine pages are uncut & unopened. Paris 1944. Very good.<br/><br/> One of a limited numbered edition printed on Velin Blanc de Rives.<br/><br/> unknown books
18505995Paris: Beauger et Cie; Lith Coulon et Cie n.d. about 1850. Acceptable/One of the great masters of lithography" says Gordon N. Ray. 35 cm; Lithographed title page and 40 full-page lithographed plates with captions. Bound in plain black morocco with leather backstrip decorated in gilt. Head and tail worn with loss. Corners and edges worn with some fraying. Light scattered foxing. Beauger et Cie; Lith Coulon et Cie hardcover books
04851Paris: Chez Tessari et Cie. 1837. Extremely Scarce <br/>No Auction Records<br/>No Copies in Libraries Worldwide<br/><br/>GAVARNI pseudonym of Guillaume Sulpice Chevallier. Fashionables. Paris: Chez Tessari et Cie. n.d. 1837. <br/><br/>Large quarto 13 1/8 x 10 1/16 inches; 333 x 255 mm. Twelve hand-colored lithographed plates heightened with gum arabic depicting couples during the twelve months of the year. Plates lithographed by Lemercier. <br/><br/>Contemporary half red morocco ruled in gilt over marbled boards by Canapé et Corriez stamp-signed on front flyleaf. Smooth spine decoratively tooled and lettered in gilt top edge gilt marbled endpapers. Some light foxing a few plates slightly browned. Tiny portion of lower corner of the plate "Août" torn away. Two bookplates and remains of a third on front pastedown. An excellent copy of this extremely scarce series of plates. Not in Colas Hiler or Lipperheide.<br/><br/>Each plate Janvier to Decembre depicts the appropriate fashion for each month of the year.<br/><br/>A work of incredible scarcity with no copies at auction since ABPC began indexing in 1923. No records in OCLC and KVK OCLC notes one of the lithographs Avril at Clark Art Institute. <br/><br/>"In 1837 Gavarni began his connection with Le charivari which did not conclude until 1848. In all he drew 1054 lithographs for his journal.Most of these appeared in series some twenty-five of which extend to ten or more plates and were afterwards published by Aubert in albums. Perhaps the best of these collections are Fourberies de femmes en matière de sentiment Les étudiants de Paris Les débardeurs and Les lorettes; but some of the rest are of hardly inferior interest. Still further series contributed to periodicals other than Le charivari were also issued as albums. Baudelaire had this part of Gavarni's work particularly in mind when he wrote.that ‘the true glory and the true mission of Gavarni and Daumier has been to complete Balzac.' Certainly the pictures of Parisian society provided by the two artists perfectly complement each other. Daumier's preoccupation was the working middle class with faces and figures heavily marked by life. Gavarni remained for the most part outside the humdrum bourgeois round. He preferred to show ‘youth at the prow and pleasure at the helm.' His pretty girls and sleek young men are bent on enjoyment. They live lives of graceful dissipation" Ray The Art of the French Illustrated Book p. 217. <br/><br/>Armelhault & Bocher 2331-2342.<br/><br/><br/>The Plates:<br/><br/>1. Janvier<br/>2. Février<br/>3. Mars<br/>4. Avril<br/>5. Mai<br/>6. Juin<br/>7. Juillet<br/>8. Août<br/>9. Septembre<br/>10. Octobre<br/>11. Novembre<br/>12. Décembre. Paris: Chez Tessari et Cie., 1837 unknown books
184560586Paris: En vente au bureau du Charivari et au bureau du Journal pour Rire Lith. de Destouches Paris 1845. 4to 13 x 10 inches. 2 volumes: 25 full-page lithographs with captions in each volume complete each with the imprint: "Chez Aubert & Cie. Imp. d'Aubert & Cie.". Title from letterpress on each plate: "Oeuvres nouvelles du Gavarni." Gavarni 1804-1866; nom-de-plume of Sulpice Guillaume Chevalier began his career taking drawing classes while working as a mechanic in a machine factory turning to his vocation as an artist in his early thirties. "His sharp and witty pencil gave to generally commonplace and unartistic figures a life-likeness and an expression which soon won for him a name in fashionable circles for his lithographed sketches portraying the most striking characteristics foibles and vices of the various classes of French society" Wikipedia. A popular series of mid-nineteenth century lithographs picturing costume ball guests issued in various formats some hand-colored; this edition seems to be scarce as we could locate no complete copy i.e. both volumes on OCLC. Very good. Original printed glossy yellow wrappers soiled some wear at extremities light foxing in margins of some plates. #7792. <br/><br/> En vente au bureau du Charivari et au bureau du Journal pour Rire (Lith. de Destouches, Paris) unknown books
1849007768London: David Bogue 1849. "The illustrations designed and drawn on wood by Gavarni and engraved by Henry Vizetelly". Contains extra pictorial illuminated portrait title page plus 23 other tissue-protected illustrations each at the head of a chapte except for the frontispiece. With armorial bookplate of William L. Scott to front pastedown along with smaller bookplate from the Virginia Warren Collection of Old London Street Cries. Very Good bound in contemporay half calf over marbled boards back with five raised bands black leather label with gilt lettering marbled end pages boards a bit rubbed at edges small chip to board rear cover. Subjects illustrated include Acrobats Thieves The Barmaid The Opera The Casino and The Orange-Girl. The illustrations and interior quite clean and lovely a handsome copy. . First Edition. Half Calf Over Marbled Boards. Very Good/No Jacket As Issued. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. David Bogue Hardcover books
193Lithograph. 1854. Dated in the plate. Image: 13¾ x 8¾. Margins: 15¼ x 10. unknown books
18421941842. Lithograph. Armelhault & Bocher 34 iii/v. On chine appliqué. Image: 8 x 6¼. 225 x 156mm. Margins: 12 x 9 . Foxing in margins. Prov. I. Curmer with his stamp. A charming portrait at age 38 of the greatest French lithographer after Daumier of the 19th century. A prolific illustrator he depicted all facets of the French Bourgeois life in newspapers and periodicals. Signed in the plate. books
692Stanford. Stanford University Museum 1970. 4to. in good condition. Standard Art Book 12. unknown books
1845WRCLIT29295Paris: Publie par J. Hetzel 1845. Two volumes. Thick quarto. 19th century three quarter crimson morocco raised bands spines gilt extra t.e.g. Profusely illustrated with plates and vignettes in text the large majority being after drawings by Gavarni. Very shallow snag at crown of one spine light occasional rubbing at edges otherwise a large generally clean largely untrimmed set. First editions of this ambitious undertaking featuring contributions by Balzac Sue Sand Stendahl Musset Nodier Gautier Nerval and many others preceded by a general history of the city by Theophile Lavallee. The over two hundred wood-engraved plates are based on Gavarni's drawings and Ray lauds them as being "of even greater interest than the 320 wood engravings of his OEUVRES CHOISIES.The engraving is superior for the most part and they are new conceptions not versions of his lithographs.His designs make LE DIABLE A PARIS the culmination of the Romantic tradition of DIABLERIE which began with the lithographic albums of the 1820s. It is also the last of the big books of collaborative illustration." RAY 236. CARTERET III:203-7. Publie par J. Hetzel hardcover books
1850WRCLIT74481Paris: Imp. Lemercier for: Librairie Nouvelle 1850. 19 plates and 18 plates. Loose sheets. Images including captions ca. 27 x 18.5 cm. Margins vary. Some creasing to the larger margins two plates exhibit foxing and a couple more show some slight marginal tanning otherwise very good or better. Decent representation of two of the sub- elements of Gavarni's extended work which when completed included 329 lithographic plates. The first element lacks plate 1 of the twenty present and the second lacks plates 4 and 5 of twenty present duplicates of 2 and 7 are also present but not included in the count above. Ray treats the series at some length describing Thomas Virelogue as "one of Gavarni's most brilliant inspirations" and the work as a whole as "a neglected masterpiece of nineteenth-century French graphic art." RAY ART OF THE FRENCH ILLUSTRATED BOOK 157. Imp. Lemercier [for:] Librairie Nouvelle unknown books
18463650Paris: J. Hetzel 1846. First edition. Two large octavo volumes 10 3/8 x 6 7/8 inches; 263 x 175 mm. Contemporary half black hard-grain morocco ruled in gilt over black morocco-grain paper over boards. Smooth spines decoratively tooled in gilt and blind and lettered in gilt. Marbled edges and endpapers. Minor rubbing to extremities head of spine of Volume II expertly and almost invisibly repaired front hinge of Volume I cracked but sound. Minimal foxing and soiling. Small area of surface abrasion to upper blank margin of plate Artistes —6 facing page 160 in Volume II where it was once adhered to the facing page. Bookplate Bibliothèque de A. Vautrain on front pastedown of each volume. Collating 4 xxxii 380; 4 lxxx 364. Wood- engraved title vignette in each volume 212 wood-engraved plates 208 after Gavarni and four after Bertall with tissue guards and numerous wood-engraved head- and tail-pieces vignettes and initials. This copy with a duplicate of the plate facing in Volume I. Music. Overall an excellent copy.<br/><br/>"The book appeared in part-issues at the rate of one or two a week between April of 1843 and December of 1845. The major attraction of Le diable à Paris resides in Gavarni's plates which are of even greater interest than the 320 wood engravings of his Oeuvres choisies 207. The engraving is superior for the most part and they are new conceptions not versions of his lithographs. He limits himself almost entirely to single figures or pairs evoked with his usual concentration and psychological subtlety. He had a free hand with his subjects since his designs are quite unrelated to Hetzel's text. As usual he arranged them as series some of which those devoted to writers and politicians for example are largely unprecedented in his previous repertory. He invaded Daumier's world with success in the fifteen plates of ‘Bourgeois' exampled in the self-satisfied worthy reproduced II 328" Ray.<br/><br/>Hiler 237. J. Hetzel unknown books
1850WRCLIT46300Paris: G. de Gonet et al.& a Leipzig: Chez Charles Twietmeyer 1850. Two volumes. 4316pp. plus frontis and fifteen plates; 2300pp. plus frontis and fifteen plates. Large octavo 27.5 x 18.7cm. Very handsome 20th century half tan morocco raised bands ruled in blind lettered in gilt and marbled boards t.e.g. others rough-trimmed with the original decorative pictorial rose-on- cream wrappers bound in. Occasional very minor foxing or dust-soiling wrappers a trace soiled with a couple of small edge mends a handful of small creases or snags to the edges of the lace borders see below light rubbing to extremities but a near fine large crisp set. First editions in the most desirable form with the texts printed on vélin and with the frontispieces and plates engraved by Geoffrey after Gavarni delicately hand- colored. The plates are of particular interest because in this format they are printed on sheets with elaborate and delicate stencil-cut lace pattern frames and borders. The plates "are studies of beautiful women fashionably attired for the most part which were drawn in London. Méry wrote the 'fantasy' accompanying them to fit Gavarni's designs.in this special edition.Gavarni's designs become fashion plates of the first order" - Ray. "La réunion des deux ouvrages avec les gravures à marges de dentelles est assez rare à recontrer" - Carteret. RAY FRENCH 209a-210. CARTERET III:460-1. VICAIRE V:770-1. G. de Gonet [et al]...[&] a Leipzig: Chez Charles Twietmeyer hardcover books
1840WRCLIT46333Paris: Beauger & Cie 1840. Quarto 31 x 23.8 cm. Late 19th century cloth and marbled boards gilt morocco spine label original wrappers bound in upper wrapper pictorial lower wrapper unprinted. Scattered foxing binding a bit rubbed and hand-soiled but very good. A charming album made up solely of twelve original monochrome plates of children lithographed by Coulon after Gavarni's designs. Beauger & Cie hardcover books
18506500Bath c. 1850. Very Good. 1 page 205 x 129mm; small cello tape repair on lower left later docketed Alfred Guidant and Gavarni lightly toned. Gavarni was a French illustrator and caricaturist whose work is widely known for its polished wit and cultured observation of life of his time. About 1831 Gavarni began publishing his ironic scenes of contemporary life and praise from writers such as Honore de Balzac gained him popularity. Gavarni worked for journals like La Mode L'Artiste La Silhouette his most known work appeared in Charivari and the weekly paper L'Illustration. He also illustrated the first collective edition of Balzac's works and Eugene Sue's Wandering Jew. He is known for his sketches of social contrasts between extremes of luxury and poverty. This tendency was strengthened by a visit to England in 1849. He returned from London deeply impressed with the scenes of misery and degradation which he had observed among the lower classes of that city. This unique autograph poem and combined letter with mention of delivering the letter by Alfred Guidant of London refers to the English land as friend to which he greets with a hearty "Bonjour l'anglais." The message clearly reflects Gavarni's newfound confidence and solidarity with human nature found opposite the English Channel. <br/><br/> unknown books
1842123046Paris: L. Curmer 1842. First edition of this collection which Carteret considers to be one of the most important illustrated books of the 19th century. Octavo elaborately bound in full red morocco with elaborate gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands elaborate gilt ruling and stamping to the front and rear panels gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles elaborately decorated green morocco doublures hand-stitched patterned endpapers all edges gilt with intricate botanical carvings illustrated with eleven frontispiece titles by Trimolet Charles Jacque Penguilly etc. and numerous vignettes throughout the text. In fine condition. Rare and desirable. "This collection of ten short narratives mostly Gothic or exotic from the literatures of several countries is one of the most charming books of the Romantic period" Ray. L. Curmer unknown books
19294Paris: Gustave Barba nd. Pale foxing first few leaves with some light damp staining. 4to. 380 pages. Frontispiece with 25 engraved plates throughout. Marbled paper over boards with gilt-stamped spine. FIRST EDITION. Text in French. <br/><br/> Gustave Barba hardcover books
