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18431836Paris: Lavigne 1843. Hardcover. Very Good. Gavarni. 8vo. xix 522pp. Original wraps bound in. Quarter leather with ornate spine gilt with gilt title. Head of spine at corners a bit rubbed green mottled paper boards with light edgewear. All edges speckled green. First edition with illustrations by Gavarni finely engraved on wood by Breviere and Nouvion. A very good copy despite some foxing and spotting throughout. Some plates lightly numbered in pencil. Tissue guards to each plate. Tight and square copy. Very good. Lavigne hardcover
B09524-3Paris/Leipzig G. de Gonet/ Charles Twietmeyer n.d. 1850. 2 300pp. Frontispiece and 15 steel engraved plates hors texte the whole finished by hand in colors and the plates themselves printed on doilies tipped onto pink guards the pink visible throughout the elaborately full percaline elaborately gilt and colored with designs on both covers and spine. 4to. Publishers original full percaline elaborately gilt and colored identically on each companion volume. A.e.g. Tissue guards. Later protective chemise. Together with: Les joyaux. Fantaisie par Gavarni. Texte par Méry. Minéralogie des dames par Cte. Foelix. Perles et Parues. 2 316pp. Frontispiece and 16 steel-engraved plates hors texte the whole finished by hand in colors and the plates printed on doilies in the same format as the foregoing. These books contain thirty-two engravings on steel by Geoffroy after Gavarni. They are studies of beautiful women fashionably attired for the most part which were drawn in London. Méry wrote the fantasy accompanying them to fit Gavarnis designs. Gordon Ray. After mentioning the ordinary edition of the work Ray proceeds to discuss this far more appealing.special edition in which the steel engravings are printed and delicately colored on paper with borders cut to various lace patterns. So presented Gavarnis designs became fashion plates of the first order. Intermittent light foxing mostly on the tissue guards and not the plates; a very desirable set the original bindings still brilliant. Paris/Leipzig (G. de Gonet/ Charles Twietmeyer), n.d. [1850]. unknown
1a5306MM. Aug. Marc Paris circa 1870. 1 Bl. 100 lithographische Tafeln original Halbleder-Rücken mit 4 Schmuckbünden und Goldprägungen Goldschnitt Folio Kanten etwas berieben und bestoßen/alter Besitzername auf Vorsatz/teils stockfleckig. unknown
1845300821845. Paris J. Hetzel 1845. Un fort vol. au format in-4 265 x 188 mm de 1 f. bl. 2 ff. n.fol. 1 frontispice gravÂŽ n.fol. xxxii - 380 pp. Reliure de l'ÂŽpoque de demi-veau olive dos ˆ nerfs ornÂŽ de filets gras en noir doubles filets dorÂŽs roulette dorÂŽe sur les nerfs piÂce de titre de maroquin rouille titre dorÂŽ filet en pointillÂŽs dorÂŽs en tÂte et queue tranches mouchetÂŽes. Edition originale agrÂŽmentÂŽe de trÂs nombreuses gravures sur bois dans le texte venant illustrer cette vasque fresque de Paris et des Parisiens sous le 2nd Empire. Le texte trÂs variÂŽ est dž aux plus grands ÂŽcrivains de l'ÂŽpoque. Un des plus cÂŽlÂbres illustrÂŽs de la pÂŽriode romantique. Lequel ''ne devait comprendre ˆ l'origine qu'un seul volume''. in Carteret. Il sera suivi en 1846 par la parution d'un second ouvrage formant le complÂŽment du prÂŽsent volume. Vicaire III Manuel du Libraire et de l'amateur de livres 242-243 ; Brivois Bibliographie des ouvrages illustrÂŽs du XIXÂme siÂcle 124-128 ; Carteret III Le TrÂŽsor du bibliophile romantique et moderne pp. 203-207. Quelques altÂŽrations superficielles affectant la reliure. Quelques rousseurs dans le texte. Deux feuillets prÂŽsentent quelques t‰ches claires. Du reste bonne condition. b42961 unknown
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
76-0893Paris: Le Charivari circa 1853. Lithograph. 32 x 24 cm sheet. Good light specks of foxing throughout. [Paris: Le Charivari, circa 1853]. unknown
71-8641Paris: Chez Aubert 1839. Lithograph. 22 x 27.5 cm sheet. Text in French on reverse. Very Good light specks of foxing in the margins short tears along top sheet edge. Paris: Chez Aubert, 1839. unknown
EEzz4082nParis Lemercier ca. 1854. Fol. 159 lithograph. Tafeln Priv. roter Lnbd. gemust. Vorsätze durchgeh. schwach gebr. Wasserränder im unt. Bereich der Bll. das Rot des Leinen ist dadurch etwas ausgegangen und auf den letzten 10 Seiten sind an den Rändern Rotspuren sichtbar einige Seidenhemdchen fehlen zahlr. Fingerfl. im w. Rand insges. aber guter Zustand. (Paris, Lemercier ca. 1854). unknown
71-8652Paris: Chez Aubert circa 1839. Lithograph. 22.5 x 27.5 cm sheet. Text in French on reverse. Very Good light specks of foxing in the margins tears and water staining along sheet edges. Paris: Chez Aubert, circa 1839. unknown
1864865291864. Fine. 1864 14.50 x 22.20 cm une feuille Original drawing attributed to Gavarni created for the carnival series. This drawing indeed appears engraved in the published album Gens de Paris Carnaval 1864 and reprinted in the second printing of Le Diable à Paris in 1868. We provide a photograph of the engraving in the description. Hatching drawing technique which allows faithful reproduction by the engraver and often used by Gavarni. One card sheet. Mounting traces on verso. Ensemble lightly browned. unknown
18395976Paris: Chez Aubert 1839-40. First edition. 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. <br /> <br /><br />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. Chez Aubert hardcover
1845037483Paris: Maresque 1845. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine. 416 Pp. With Original Wrappers Bound In At Front And Rear. 1/3 Red Morocco5 Raised Bands Gilt Marbled Boards And Marbled Endpapers Deckled Edges. Very Lightly Used Slight Rubbing Tiny Chips To Surface Paper At Tips. Browning To Additional White Endpapers And To Covers Pages White But With Some Foxing To Many Pages Also Foxing To Plates And Tissue Guards. <br/> <br/> Maresque hardcover
06082Paris: Aubert & Cie. 1848. A Superb Hand-Colored Anthology of French Romantic Caricature<br /> Twenty Lithographs by Daumier Gavarni Bouchot Pruche & Platier <br /> from Aubert's Celebrated Étrennes Comiques<br /> <br /> BOUCHOT Frédéric. PRUCHE Clément. GAVARNI Paul. PLATIER Jules & DAUMIER Honoré. Étrennes Comiques par les Principaux Dessinateurs du Journal pour Rire du Charivari du Musée Philipon et de la maison Aubert. Paris: Aubert & Cie. ca. 1848.<br /> <br /> Folio 13 1/8 x 9 7/8 inches; 333 x 251 mm. Pictorial lithographic title-page and twenty magnificent hand-colored lithographs all heightened with gum arabic. The plates comprise works by Frédéric Bouchot 6 Clément Pruche 5 Paul Gavarni 4 Jules Platier 3 and Honoré Daumier 2. Title-page neatly strengthened at the inner margin without loss. One Daumier plate with a neatly repaired marginal tear just touching the image; one Pruche plate with repaired and strengthened outer blank margin.<br /> <br /> Early twentieth-century light brown cloth over boards front cover lettered in gilt.<br /> <br /> The album is particularly distinguished by the quality of its hand-coloring. Executed in delicate transparent washes and frequently heightened with gum arabic the coloring preserves the softness of the original lithographic crayon while lending remarkable brilliance to costume interiors landscapes and architectural settings. The impressions themselves are fresh and unusually well preserved and are introduced by an exceptionally handsome engraved title-page - a lively composition crowded with comic figures that serves not merely as a decorative frontispiece but as a visual manifesto for Aubert the publishing house that dominated French satirical lithography during the 1830s and 1840s.<br /> <br /> An exceptionally attractive publisher's anthology bringing together some of the finest comic lithographs produced by the celebrated Aubert publishing house during the great age of French Romantic caricature. Rather than commissioning a single artist Aubert assembled this album as an étrennes - a luxurious New Year's gift volume - selecting hand-colored impressions by the principal contributors to Le Charivari the Journal pour rire and the Musée Philipon. The result is a miniature survey of French comic lithography at its artistic peak juxtaposing the differing temperaments of Daumier Gavarni Bouchot Platier and Pruche within a single volume.<br /> <br /> The diversity of subjects is one of the album's principal charms. Daumier contributes two of his incisive social satires; Gavarni observes bourgeois manners with his customary elegance; Bouchot supplies a sequence of exquisitely staged domestic comedies from Soins Tyranniques and Trop Tôt; Platier offers both fashionable physiognomies and scenes from La Famille Bas-Bleu; while Pruche provides lively political and urban caricatures together with humorous coach-travel scenes. Together they create an unusually rich panorama of Parisian life fashion politics family life travel and social ambition during the final years of the July Monarchy.<br /> <br /> We have handled another example bearing this engraved title-page but containing an entirely different selection of hand-colored lithographs by Daumier Vernier Traviès Gavarni Platier and Bouchot. This strongly suggests that Aubert assembled these luxurious Étrennes Comiques albums from varying stocks of hand-colored impressions rather than issuing them in a fixed configuration. As a result each surviving copy is effectively unique providing not only a delightful anthology of French Romantic caricature but also valuable evidence for the publishing and marketing practices of Aubert the foremost producer of satirical lithography in nineteenth-century Paris. Paris: Aubert & Cie.,, 1848 unknown
185841979Paris: P. Martinon Librarie; G. de Gonet éditeur. 1858. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Small 4to; 160 1 pages; Contemporary green half morocco over marbed boards spine with raised bands gilt lettered title directly in the second panel gilt tooled decoration in the others marbled endpapers top edges gilt. Minor rubbing and light wear to the spine and corners. A tight pleasing copy of this noted first edition -- with the 20 full page lithographed plates after drawings by Gavarni -- Sulpice Guillaume Chevalier1804-1866 who became world famous as an artist working under the name: Paul Gavarni. The illustrations include abook collector savoring an "edition princeps" while a jaded bookseller leans disinterestedly against his stall awaiting a decision a man in a field watching for game with a rifle resting at his side a billiards player men engaged in a round of boulle a boy sitting on a stream's bank fishing with a pole a male "voisine" observing his neighbors thorugh a small spyglass a print connoisseur looking over a portfolio of images: "avant la lettre" two pensive men staring at a chess board a group of men playing cards at a table etc. Vicaire I 987. OCLC Number: 557635250 . P. Martinon Librarie; G. de Gonet, éditeur hardcover
184459006492Paris: Paris Librairie Pittoresque de la Jeunesse Garnier Fre`res 1844. Bound in 1/4 leather over black boards; five raised bands. Scuffing to extremes. 158 pp. 22 full page illustrations. Decorative endsheets; light foxing throughout. Rare. . Second Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by illustre´es par Gavarni Louis Garneray E´mile Wattier . 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Paris Librairie Pittoresque de la Jeunesse Garnier Fre`res Hardcover
1839H37001Paris: Chez Aubert Marchand D'Estampes 1839. Second Edition. Hardcover. Good. Tall 8vo 10 x 7 inches old half leather and marbled boards with recent cloth over spine good with ex-library marks from CMU including their withdrawn stamp ownership signature of William Lucien Scaife 1853-1924 who studied engineering and metallurgy in Germany after college and then came back to Pittsburgh where he was involved in Scaife family businesses. 580 pp illustrated with in-text woodcuts throughout attributed to Daumier Grandville Meissonier Gavarni and other prominent French illustrators by a European seller who is offering a copy of this but we are not certain of all those artists -- some of the illustrations are indeed signed by Daumier. Chez Aubert, Marchand D'Estampes hardcover
05538Paris: Chez Aubert 1837. Characteristic Expressions Love Letters and Law Students<br /> Twenty-Five Fine Hand Colored Lithographs by Daumier Gavarni and Cujas<br /> <br /> DAUMIER Honoré. La Galerie Physionomique The Physiognomic Gallery 5 plates 0f 25 1837; GAVARNI Paul. Au Boit Aux Lettres At the mailbox 11 plates of 34 1838; GAVARNI Paul. Les Coulisses Behind the scenes 1 plate of 31 1857; CUJAS. Cours de Droit Law courses 8 plates of 12 1838.<br /> <br /> Folio 13 1/2 x 10 1/8 inches; 343 x 257 mm. <br /> <br /> A fascinating collection of twenty-five hand colored lithograph plates by Daumier Gavarni & Cujas all heightened with gum arabic.<br /> <br /> Contemporary quarter dark green calf over green marbled boards. Smooth spine decoratively tooled in gilt plain endpapers. Extremities rubbed.<br /> <br /> 1. DAUMIER. La Galerie Physionomique No. 14. La loge grillée - The box grated DR 339<br /> 2. CUJAS. Cours de Droit No. 1. La Chaumière et ton coeur - The Cottage and your heart<br /> 3. CUJAS. Cours de Droit No. 2. Jus Romanum <br /> 4. CUJAS. Cours de Droit No. 4 Homme étonnant!!! Quel chique.<br /> 5. CUJAS. Cours de Droit No. 6. L'Etudiant a besoin de quelques distractions - The Student <br /> 6. CUJAS. Cours de Droit No. 8. Reflexion philosophique en morale de Mlle Fifine<br /> 7. CUJAS. Cours de Droit No. 9. Allons Gustine joue tout droit tu ne manqueras pas de touche.<br /> 8. CUJAS. Cours de Droit No. 10. Je ne me trompe pas d'etait bien mon B.! <br /> 9. GAVARNI. Les Coulisses No. 6. Le soldat romain Quinze sous par jour. A&H 454<br /> 10. CUJAS. Cours de Droit No. 12. Tiens! Ernest!. qu'es tu donc devenu<br /> 11. GAVARNI. La Boite Aux Lettres Sans No. Je prends la plume d'une main tremblante. A&H p. 88<br /> 12. GAVARNI. La Boite Aux Lettres No. 2. Vous avez le secret de ma vie. A&H 1685<br /> 13. GAVARNI. La Boite Aux Lettres No. 3. La lettre qu'on lit. A&H 1686<br /> 14. GAVARNI. La Boite Aux Lettres No. 4. J'ai ta lettre cherie a mon Ernest je la presse. A&H 348<br /> 15. GAVARNI. La Boite Aux Lettres Sans No. Je soussigné Roi des Batinolles. A&H p. 89<br /> 16. GAVARNI. La Boite Aux Lettres Sans No. Chère ange mon amour vous envoie sur l'aile. A&H p. 89<br /> 17. DAUMIER. La Galerie Physionomique No. 5. Le bon morceau - A Tidbit DR 330<br /> 18. GAVARNI. La Boite Aux Lettres No. 8. Sans No. Viens me prendre ce soir je suis sortie. A&H p. 89<br /> 19. GAVARNI. La Boite Aux Lettres No. 9. Sans No. Ma sière epouse je vous. A&H p. 89<br /> 20. DAUMIER. La Galerie Physionomique No. 18. Rien!.rien!. Je ne trouve rien - Nothing! nothing at all. DR 343<br /> 21. GAVARNI. La Boite Aux Lettres No. 11. Congé en partie double. A&H 1693<br /> 22. DAUMIER. La Galerie Physionomique No. 8. La bonne prise - A good pinch of snuff DR 333<br /> 23. GAVARNI. La Boite Aux Lettres No. 13. Monsieur malgré que je sois sans experience je n'ai. A&H 1695<br /> 24. GAVARNI. La Boite Aux Lettres No. 14. Ah! prenez pitié de l'etat cruel où me laisse mon attachement. A&H 349<br /> 25. DAUMIER. La Galerie Physionomique No. 20. Contentement de soi-meme - The man who is satisfied with himself<br /> DR 345<br /> <br /> Daumier Register DR-330 DR-333 DR-339 DR-343 DR-345; Armelhault & Bocher 348 454 1685 1686 1693 1695 & pp. 88 & 89. Paris: Chez Aubert, 1837 unknown
18394726Chez Aubert 1839 Three volumes bound in one. First Edition. 4to 11 x 8.75 inches 150 b/w lithographic plates Bound in three-quarter calf and marbled paper boards spine lettered and decorated in gilt. Light scattered foxing throughout with occasional spots of minor soiling leather binding rubbed and worn at extremities corners scuffed with tearing to surface of the leather ¼-inch tear to the upper edge of front joint. Hardcover. Very Good. Chez Aubert hardcover
05964Paris: 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 /> Three quarto volumes 10 3/16 x 7 15/16 inches; 259 x 202 mm. 2 half-title 2 title 200 2 "Table" 4 publisher's advertisements; 2 half-title 2 title 200 2 "Table; 2 half-title 2 title 200 2 "Table 4 publisher's advertisements 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 /> Early twentieth-century half red scored calf ruled in gilt over marbled boards by Adolphe Cuzin stamp-signed in gilt at foot of spine. Smooth spines decoratively tooled and lettered in gilt all edges gilt marbled endpapers. Expert and almost invisible minor restoration to corners and spine extremities. Occasional light foxing and/or browning. A wonderful 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'" The Daumier Register at http://www.daumier-register.org.<br /> <br /> Ray The Art of the French Illustrated Book 164. Paris: Chez Aubert, 1839 unknown
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
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
187638357Paris: Rapilly 1876. A PRISTINE LARGE-PAPER COPY of the first and only edition of the third book published about Gavarni. viii 80 pp. A special copy likely one of only 5 to 20 printed on Chinese paper "papier de chine". 8vo. Original wraps. UNCUT AND UNOPENED. A tiny bit of faint foxing as usual with Chinese paper otherwise FINE AND BRIGHT with no defects. Vicaire III 509 not mentioning any copies on Chinese paper and Vicaire is usually very meticulous about such matters. <br/><br/> Rapilly paperback
1859e3596Paris: Morizot. G : in Good condition without dust jacket. Cover rubbed with some marks. Light foxing. Content in overall VG condition. 1859. First Edition. Red hardback cloth cover. 270mm x 180mm 11" x 7". 532pp. 18 plates 4 in colour. Text in french. Heavy item - shipping supplement may apply for overseas. . Morizot hardcover
184585453Paris: Paulin 1845. Fine. Paulin Paris 1845 18.50 x 27.50 cm 4 volumes reliés en 2 First edition superbly illustrated by Gavarni with 83 hors-texte plates as well as 600 in-text vignettes. Between pages 254-255 of the third volume our copy is complete with the folding map showing the Progressive March of Cholera Morbus in Asia and Europe from 1817 to 1832. Half-brown shagreen bindings spines slightly faded with four raised bands set with gilt dots and decorated with double gilt compartments marbled paper boards marbled endpapers and pastedowns. Some foxing as usual. Le juif errant is one of the greatest bestsellers of the 19th century published just after Les mystères de Paris. To the narrative qualities of Les mystères de Paris Le juif errant adds the intervention of the supernatural and the fantastic represented by the legendary vagabond who gives his name to the book. Preceded by cholera which inspired Eugène Sue to write anthology pages the legendary Jew returns from beyond the seas and beyond the centuries to prevent the Society of Jesus from seizing a fabulous fortune by eliminating its heirs one by one. Le juif errant being an adventure novel taking place in the four corners of the world. It triggered an anti-Jesuit movement in France. If Eugène Sue is more or less forgotten today he was not only one of the most famous novelists of the 19th century but the most read in Europe and even Dostoevsky was a regular reader of his work. Few writers of this era benefited from the editorial qualities demonstrated by Les mystères de Paris and Le juif errant abundantly and superbly illustrated. He was Dumas's main competitor and the latter thought he would even outlive him. Paulin hardcover
FSKB0331Paris Morizot 1864. 1001 Nacht - 4°. XII 612 S. 20 gest. Tafeln unter Seidenhemdchen. Illustr. roter Orig.-Halblederband mit reicher Rückengoldpräg. umlaufender Goldschnitt. Ecken u. Rücken berieben Deckel stellw. fleckig. Im Text stellenw. stockfleckig vereinzelt Gebrauchsspuren. Im Ganzen noch gutes Exemplar. Paris, Morizot (1864). unknown