Author: ADAM, Victor
Title: Un an de la Vie D Un Jeune Homme
Description: Paris: Sazerac et Duval, Engelmann, Langlumè & Brossier, 1824. First Edition of the Illustrator's First Book One Year in the Life of a Young Man Depicted in Seventeen Hand-Colored Lithograph Plates ADAM, Victor. Un An de la Vie d un Jeune Homme. Histoire véritable en 17 Chapitres. Escrits par lui-même et Lithographiés par Victor Adam. Paris: Sazerac et Duval, Engelmann, Langlumè & Brossier, 1824. First edition. Folio (13 9/16 x 10 3/8 inches; 345 x264 mm.). Lithograph title-page and seventeen superb hand-colored lithograph plates printed by Langlumé. Some occasional light marginal foxing, plate 10 with two neatly repaired small closed tears to lower blank margin. All plates with the blind stamp of the publisher Sazerac et Duval in lower blank margin. Small circular library stamp of Bernard Franck at foot of title-page and also on front free endpaper. Contemporary quarter dark-green scored calf over green paper boards. Smooth spine ruled in gilt, tan morocco label lettered in gilt, board edges worn. With the bookplate of celebrated collector Bernard Franck on front free endpaper. An excellent example of a very rare suite of hand-colored lithographs by Victor Adam. Victor Adam (1801-1865) is better known for his later works of pictorial journalism or for his many lithographs of military history than for his early works of fashion and society life. "His immense production contains many amusing albums concerning the life of the time such as Un an dans la vie de jeune homme. This series is a sort of bourgeois rake's progress. A young man from the country comes to Paris to sample its pleasures. He acquires a new wardrobe; buys a horse; is duped by gamblers, makes a conquest of a pretty lady; exclaims, 'Jasmin! she seemed so artless,' as he lies recovering from the resulting malady; is imprisoned for debt; writes at last to 'the old one,' a buxom woman of means; and is accepted by her in the final plate. The series is unusual among the albums of the time in that it tells a consecutive story, and it certainly has more spirit and finish than Adam's usual work" (Ray). A lovely copy of the first book by this gifted painter and illustrator. Very scarce. Bernard Franck (1849-1924) Born in Paris, Franck was a veteran of the 1870 Franco-Prussian War, during which he was awarded the Medaille Militaire. He was an industrialist, specializing in the manufacturing of military equipment. His success in business enabled him to become an inveterate collector. He amassed his vast collection over 45 years from 1875 to 1920. The collection consisted of 18th Century and early 19th Century objects – miniature portraits (many emphasizing military subjects), medals and decorations, armory, uniforms, paintings, engravings, a variety of bibelots. Besides the miniature portraits, especially noteworthy was Franck’s collection of Carnets de Bal (dance cards). He sold this collection to J.P. Morgan around 1910. Before doing so, he had the collection reproduced in an album entitled “Collection de 124 carnets de bal du XVIIIe siecle/formee par M.Bernard Franck a Paris de l’annee 1875 au 23 avril 1902”. Only 20 albums were produced, of which one is in the Watson Library of the Metropolitan Museum and one in the Morgan Library, autographed by Franck to Morgan. Franck died in 1924. The collection that follows has been held within the family since that time. me. The Plates: 1. J’arrive! (I arrive!) 2. Je ne me reconnais plus. (I do not recognize myself anymore.) 3. C’est superbe! (It is superb!) 4. Elle me regarde! Dieu quel bonheur! (She's looking at me! God what happiness!) 5. C’est une femme honnête. (She is an honest woman.) 6. Je ne pouvais pas aller à pied. (I couldn't walk.) 7. C’est à qui m’aura. (Who's going to get me?) 8. Comment Docteur! (How Doctor!) 9. Jasmin!..elle avait l’air si ingénu!! (Jasmine! .. she looked so ingenuous !!) 10. Quel guignon! (What a mess!) 11. Des mémoires! Fi donc. (Memories! Fi then.) 12. Je le savais. (I knew it.) 13. St. Pelagie-charmant séjour! (St. Pelagie- lovely stay!) 14. Quels inhumains! Me mettre dehors! (What inhumans! Kick me out!) 15. Aux grands maux les grands remédes. (To great ills, great remedies.) 16. La simpiternelle serait ma bisaïeule. (The simpiternal would be my grandmother.) 17. Il faut faire une Fin! Je lépouse. (We must make an End! I marry him.) . .
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Title: Un an de la Vie D Un Jeune Homme
Description: Paris: Sazerac et Duval, Engelmann, Langlumè & Brossier, 1824. First Edition of the Illustrator's First Book One Year in the Life of a Young Man Depicted in Seventeen Hand-Colored Lithograph Plates ADAM, Victor. Un An de la Vie d un Jeune Homme. Histoire véritable en 17 Chapitres. Escrits par lui-même et Lithographiés par Victor Adam. Paris: Sazerac et Duval, Engelmann, Langlumè & Brossier, 1824. First edition. Folio (13 9/16 x 10 3/8 inches; 345 x264 mm.). Lithograph title-page and seventeen superb hand-colored lithograph plates printed by Langlumé. Some occasional light marginal foxing, plate 10 with two neatly repaired small closed tears to lower blank margin. All plates with the blind stamp of the publisher Sazerac et Duval in lower blank margin. Small circular library stamp of Bernard Franck at foot of title-page and also on front free endpaper. Contemporary quarter dark-green scored calf over green paper boards. Smooth spine ruled in gilt, tan morocco label lettered in gilt, board edges worn. With the bookplate of celebrated collector Bernard Franck on front free endpaper. An excellent example of a very rare suite of hand-colored lithographs by Victor Adam. Victor Adam (1801-1865) is better known for his later works of pictorial journalism or for his many lithographs of military history than for his early works of fashion and society life. "His immense production contains many amusing albums concerning the life of the time such as Un an dans la vie de jeune homme. This series is a sort of bourgeois rake's progress. A young man from the country comes to Paris to sample its pleasures. He acquires a new wardrobe; buys a horse; is duped by gamblers, makes a conquest of a pretty lady; exclaims, 'Jasmin! she seemed so artless,' as he lies recovering from the resulting malady; is imprisoned for debt; writes at last to 'the old one,' a buxom woman of means; and is accepted by her in the final plate. The series is unusual among the albums of the time in that it tells a consecutive story, and it certainly has more spirit and finish than Adam's usual work" (Ray). A lovely copy of the first book by this gifted painter and illustrator. Very scarce. Bernard Franck (1849-1924) Born in Paris, Franck was a veteran of the 1870 Franco-Prussian War, during which he was awarded the Medaille Militaire. He was an industrialist, specializing in the manufacturing of military equipment. His success in business enabled him to become an inveterate collector. He amassed his vast collection over 45 years from 1875 to 1920. The collection consisted of 18th Century and early 19th Century objects – miniature portraits (many emphasizing military subjects), medals and decorations, armory, uniforms, paintings, engravings, a variety of bibelots. Besides the miniature portraits, especially noteworthy was Franck’s collection of Carnets de Bal (dance cards). He sold this collection to J.P. Morgan around 1910. Before doing so, he had the collection reproduced in an album entitled “Collection de 124 carnets de bal du XVIIIe siecle/formee par M.Bernard Franck a Paris de l’annee 1875 au 23 avril 1902”. Only 20 albums were produced, of which one is in the Watson Library of the Metropolitan Museum and one in the Morgan Library, autographed by Franck to Morgan. Franck died in 1924. The collection that follows has been held within the family since that time. me. The Plates: 1. J’arrive! (I arrive!) 2. Je ne me reconnais plus. (I do not recognize myself anymore.) 3. C’est superbe! (It is superb!) 4. Elle me regarde! Dieu quel bonheur! (She's looking at me! God what happiness!) 5. C’est une femme honnête. (She is an honest woman.) 6. Je ne pouvais pas aller à pied. (I couldn't walk.) 7. C’est à qui m’aura. (Who's going to get me?) 8. Comment Docteur! (How Doctor!) 9. Jasmin!..elle avait l’air si ingénu!! (Jasmine! .. she looked so ingenuous !!) 10. Quel guignon! (What a mess!) 11. Des mémoires! Fi donc. (Memories! Fi then.) 12. Je le savais. (I knew it.) 13. St. Pelagie-charmant séjour! (St. Pelagie- lovely stay!) 14. Quels inhumains! Me mettre dehors! (What inhumans! Kick me out!) 15. Aux grands maux les grands remédes. (To great ills, great remedies.) 16. La simpiternelle serait ma bisaïeule. (The simpiternal would be my grandmother.) 17. Il faut faire une Fin! Je lépouse. (We must make an End! I marry him.) . .
Keywords: Books in French Caricatures French Caricature
Price: US$ 5500.00 Seller: David Brass Rare Books (ABAA/ILAB)
- Book number: 05978
- Book number: 05978
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