Author: LA CARICATURE; [PHILIPON, Charles, founder, publisher, editor]
Title: La Caricature, Journal. Dondé Et Dirigé Par Ch. Philipon
Description: Paris: Chez Aubert, 1830-1832. The Journal That Initiated the Golden Age of French Caricature [LA CARICATURE]. [PHILIPON, Charles, founder, publisher, editor]. La Caricature. Morale, Religieuse, Littéraire et Scénique. Nos. 1 - 86 [first three volumes of ten]. Paris: Chez Aubert, Nov 4, 1830 - April 18, 1833. Three large quarto volumes (13 1/2 x 10 1/8 in; 342 x 257 mm.). Containing the first five volumes, 128 of 129 issues (bound without issue 129), each with four pages of text and lithographed plates numbered 1-18, 19-163, 166-266, plus four unnumbered or bis plates [121, 153, 181a, & 181b]. A total of 267 (of 528) plates, some of which are double-page folding, including eighty-eight hand-colored and four with movable flaps/panels. Almost all issues bearing the Timbre Royal Seine 5 centime tax stamp to upper or lower right corner of front page. Including the four bis or unnumbered plates. Also this set has been bound, as is quite common without plate 19 (Un Ami du peuple par H. Monnier). "It is missing in the La Bedoyère copy, as in most copies." (Vicaire II, p. 52). Handsomely bound by Thivet ca. 1880 in three-quarter red morocco over marbled boards, ruled in gilt. Spines with five raised bands, elaborately decorated and lettered in gilt in compartments, marbled endpapers. Some plates with light to moderate foxing. A couple with foxed spots generally to margins and not intruding upon image. While some of the wrappers/text have toned as expected (but are not brittle), others - miraculously - remain as fresh as the day they were printed. An excellent run of the first five volumes. Edited by Philipon in the few years that censorship was relaxed, La Caricature is the most evocative revue of the Romantic period, taking an important role in the fight of the liberals against Louis-Philippe and his ministers. Although a courageous editor, Philipon, with the literary help of Desnoyers, Hugo, and Balzac, was not a great artist and needed the inspiration of Daumier and Grandville to bring alive his satirical magazine. Issued over only five years La Caricature is the most famous of all nineteenth century satirical magazines. The major contributors were Daumier and Grandville but there are contributions by Monnier, Lami, Descamps, Raffet, Gavarni, Deveria, Bouquet, Traviès, Desperet, Forest, Roubaud and others. Ray, The Art of the French Illustrated Book, 160. Vicaire II, cols. 46-81. .

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