MONNIER, Henri; DEVÈRIA, Achille; BÉRANGER, Pierre-Jean de

Chansons de P.J. Béranger Anciennes, Nouvelles Et inédites

Paris: Baudouin Frères, Éditeurs, 1828. Pierre-Jean de Béranger "The Most Popular French Songwriter of All Time" "The First Superstar of French Popular Music" Thirty Three (of Forty, as is often the case) Hand Colored Lithograph Plates by Henri Monnier MONNIER, Henri, illustrator. Chansons de P.J. Béranger Anciennes, Nouvelles et Inédites, avec des vignettes de Devéria et des dessins coloriées d'Henri Monnier. Suivies des Procès Intentés a l'Auteur. Paris: Baudouin Frères, Éditeurs, 1828. First edition. Two octavo volumes (8 1/4 x 5 1/8 inches; 209 x 130 mm.). [ii], [1]-439, 1, blank]; [ii], [1]-438 pp. Bound without the half-titles and the additional four-page preface in volume one. Plate 18 (Le Maitre D'École) and the following two leaves of text (pp. 135-138 with neatly repaired tears (marginal on plate). Light scattered foxing throughout, mainly affecting text only. **Thirty-three (of forty) superb hand colored lithograph plates by Henri Monnier and numerous charming black & white vignettes by Achille Devèria. The plates that were never included in this copy are numbers: 21, 26, 28, 31, 35, 37, & 39. (These seven plates are highlighted below within the listing of all 40 plates). Contemporary English, bead-grain, brown morocco, covers elaborately decorated in gilt and blind. Spines with four raised bands elaborately tooled and lettered in gilt in compartments, powder blue coated endpapers, all edges gilt. Spines slightly darkened, light rubbing to extremities. With the armorial bookplate of Stephens Lyne Stephens on front pastedowns. A very good copy in a contemporary binding. **"The forty drawings by Henri Monnier, lithographed with a pen on stone and colored with a brush, are very rare complete. Seven of these lithographs are often missing, they are: The Court Dress, The Exile, The Good Old Man, The Marquise of Pretintaille, The Flight of Love, The Voyager, The two Grenadiers." (Carteret III, p. 72). KVK locates no complete copies; OCLC locates just one complete copy in libraries and institutions worldwide: Paris-Est Marne-La-Vallee-Bu (France). Pierre-Jean de Béranger (1780-1857) was a prolific French poet and chansonnier (songwriter), who enjoyed great popularity and influence in France during his lifetime, but faded into obscurity in the decades following his death. He has been described as "the most popular French songwriter of all time" and "the first superstar of French popular music". The Chansons were composed with fastidious care and are most notable for their clarity, wit and incisiveness, however the socialist and revolutionary content of his songs resulted in several brushes with the authorities, resulting in his nine month incarceration in La Force Prison. Stephens Lyne-Stephens (1801-1860) was an English Tory politician who represented Barnstaple before the 1832 Reform Act. After inheriting a family fortune from glass manufacture in Portugal, he was later reputed to be the richest commoner in England. The plates: 1. Le Roi d'Yvetot 2. La Bacchante 3. Le Sénateur 4. La Gaudriole 5. Roger Bontemps 6. Ma Grand'Mère 7. Ma Mère Aveugle 8. Le Petit Homme Gris 9. La Bonne Fille 10. L'Éducation des Demoiselles 11. Madame Grégoire 12. Les Gueux 13. Le Vieux Célibataire 14. Le Commencement du Voyage 15. Requête des Chiens de Qualité 16. Vieux Habits! Vieux Galons! 17. Le Nouveau Diogène 18. Le Maitre d'École 19. La Chatte 20. Bon Vin et Fillette 21. L'Habit de Cour ***(p. 205) 22. Ce n'est plus Lisette 23. L'Hiver 24. la Bonne Vieille 25. La Vivandière 26. L'Exilé ***(p. 285) 27. La Bouquetière et le Croque-Mort 28. Le Bon Vieillard ***(p. 315) 29. L'Aveugle de Bagnolet 30. Les Cartes ou L'Horoscope 31. La Marquise de Pretintaille ***(p. 402) 32. Le Tailleur et la Fée 33. Le Violon Brisé 34. Les Hirondelles 35. La Fuite de l'Amour ***(p. 87) 36. Le Vieux Sergent 37. Le Voyageur ***(p. 111) 38. Le Grenier 39. Les Deux Grenadiers ***(p. 169) 40. Les Souvenirs du Peuple Champfleury, Monnier p.364; Escoffier, The Romantic Movement N°675; Marie, 653-692; Vicaire I-402. .

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Book number: 04859

Catalogue: Color-Plate Books

Keywords: DEVÈRIA, Achille BÉRANGER, Pierre-Jean de Books in French Caricatures Songs French Caricature

MONNIER, Henri; DEVÈRIA, Achille; BÉRANGER, Pierre-Jean de

Chansons de P.J. Béranger Anciennes, Nouvelles Et inédites

Paris: Baudouin Frères, Éditeurs, 1828. Pierre-Jean de Béranger "The Most Popular French Songwriter of All Time" "The First Superstar of French Popular Music" Thirty Three (of Forty) Hand Colored Lithograph Plates by Henri Monnier MONNIER, Henri, illustrator. Chansons de P.J. Béranger Anciennes, Nouvelles et Inédites, avec des vignettes de Devéria et des dessins coloriées d'Henri Monnier. Suivies des Procès Intentés a l'Auteur. Paris: Baudouin Frères, Éditeurs, 1828. First edition. Two octavo volumes (8 1/8 x 5 1/8 inches; 207 x 130 mm.). [ii], [1]-439, 1, blank]; [iv], [1]-438 pp. Some light waterstaining to the top edge of the first few leaves in volume one, not affecting text. **Thirty-three (of forty) superb hand colored lithograph plates by Henri Monnier and numerous charming black & white vignettes by Achille Devèria. The color plates have the original tissue guards. The plates that were never included in this copy are numbers: 21, 26, 28, 31, 35, 37, & 39.(These seven plates are highlighted below within the listing of all 40 plates). Contemporary quarter russia over blue boards, spines decoratively ruled in gilt, two black morocco labels lettered in gilt, pink marbled endpapers. Head and tail of spines expertly and almost invisibly repaired, corners rubbed. Bookplates removed from front pastedowns. A very good copy. **"The forty drawings by Henri Monnier, lithographed with a pen on stone and colored with a brush, are very rare complete. Seven of these lithographs are often missing, they are: The Court Dress, The Exile, The Good Old Man, The Marquise of Pretintaille, The Flight of Love, The Voyager, The two Grenadiers." (Carteret III, p. 72). KVK locates no complete copies; OCLC locates just one complete copy in libraries and institutions worldwide: Paris-Est Marne-La-Vallee-Bu (France). All other copies that are recorded or that we know of have the same thirty-three (of forty) hand colored plates. It would appear that the seven plates numbers 21, 26, 28, 31, 35, 37, & 39 were either destroyed soon after printing or purposely left out in all but the very first copies. Pierre-Jean de Béranger (1780-1857) was a prolific French poet and chansonnier (songwriter), who enjoyed great popularity and influence in France during his lifetime, but faded into obscurity in the decades following his death. He has been described as "the most popular French songwriter of all time" and "the first superstar of French popular music". The Chansons were composed with fastidious care and are most notable for their clarity, wit and incisiveness, however the socialist and revolutionary content of his songs resulted in several brushes with the authorities, resulting in his nine month incarceration in La Force Prison. Stephens Lyne-Stephens (1801-1860) was an English Tory politician who represented Barnstaple before the 1832 Reform Act. After inheriting a family fortune from glass manufacture in Portugal, he was later reputed to be the richest commoner in England. The plates: 1. Le Roi d'Yvetot 2. La Bacchante 3. Le Sénateur 4. La Gaudriole 5. Roger Bontemps 6. Ma Grand'Mère 7. Ma Mère Aveugle 8. Le Petit Homme Gris 9. La Bonne Fille 10. L'Éducation des Demoiselles 11. Madame Grégoire 12. Les Gueux 13. Le Vieux Célibataire 14. Le Commencement du Voyage 15. Requête des Chiens de Qualité 16. Vieux Habits! Vieux Galons! 17. Le Nouveau Diogène 18. Le Maitre d'École 19. La Chatte 20. Bon Vin et Fillette 21. L'Habit de Cour ***(p. 205) 22. Ce n'est plus Lisette 23. L'Hiver 24. la Bonne Vieille 25. La Vivandière 26. L'Exilé ***(p. 285) 27. La Bouquetière et le Croque-Mort 28. Le Bon Vieillard ***(p. 315) 29. L'Aveugle de Bagnolet 30. Les Cartes ou L'Horoscope 31. La Marquise de Pretintaille ***(p. 402) 32. Le Tailleur et la Fée 33. Le Violon Brisé 34. Les Hirondelles 35. La Fuite de l'Amour ***(p. 87) 36. Le Vieux Sergent 37. Le Voyageur ***(p. 111) 38. Le Grenier 39. Les Deux Grenadiers ***(p. 169) 40. Les Souvenirs du Peuple Champfleury, Monnier p.364; Escoffier, The Romantic Movement N°675; Marie, 653-692; Vicaire I-402. .

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Book number: 04871

Catalogue: Color-Plate Books

Keywords: DEVÈRIA, Achille BÉRANGER, Pierre-Jean de Books in French Caricatures French Caricature

MONNIER, Henri; DEVÈRIA, Achille; BÉRANGER, Pierre-Jean de

Chansons de P.J. Béranger Anciennes, Nouvelles Et inédites

Paris: Baudouin Frères, Éditeurs, 1828. Pierre-Jean de Béranger "The Most Popular French Songwriter of All Time" "The First Superstar of French Popular Music" A Superb Copy in the Publisher's Original Printed Wrappers Complete with Forty Hand Colored Lithograph Plates by Henri Monnier & a Duplicate Colored Suite. MONNIER, Henri, illustrator. Chansons de P.J. Béranger Anciennes, Nouvelles et Inédites, avec des vignettes de Devéria et des dessins coloriées d'Henri Monnier. Suivies des Procès Intentés a l'Auteur. Paris: Baudouin Frères, Éditeurs, 1828. First edition in the original ten parts - inscribed by the publisher/printer, Rignoux. Octavo (8 7/8 x 5 3/4 inches; 225 x 147 mm.). [ii], [iv], [1]-96; 97-192; 193-272; 273-368; 369-439, [1, blank]; [iv], [1]-96; 97-208; [209]-288; 289-368; [369]-438, [2, blank] pp. Forty superb hand colored lithograph plates by Henri Monnier and numerous charming black & white vignettes by Achille Devèria. With a duplicate suite of the forty colored plates. Publisher's pale green printed wrappers, each with a different lithograph illustration on front cover. A very fine example of this exceptionally rare Monnier title in the original 'dix livraisons' complete with all forty hand colored plates and an additional duplicate suite. The two suites of plates are also in the publisher's pale green printed wrappers, the first suite in a 2e Livraison wrapper and the duplicate suite in a 5e Livraison wrapper. Together with: BÉRANGER. Poniatowski. Hatons-Nous. Chansons Dédiées au Général Lafayette, Premier Grenadier de la Garde Polonaise. Suivies 14 Juillet 1829, et des Couplets a mes Amis devenus Ministres. (Poniatowski. Hate Us. Songs Dedicated to General Lafayette, First Grenadier of the Polish Guard. Followed July 14, 1829, and Couplets to my Friends who have become Ministers. Contains a biographical note on Joseph, Prince Poniatowski by Leonard Chodzko).Paris: A l'agence du Comité.. 1831. Octavo (8 7/8 x 5 3/4 inches; 225 x 147 mm.). [1]-23, [1, blank]. Publisher's blue printed wrappers. Chemised in a three-quarter green morocco clamshell case, spine ruled and lettered in gilt in compartments. A truly exceptional example. KVK locates no complete copies of the Chansons; OCLC locates just one complete copy in libraries and institutions worldwide: Paris-Est Marne-La-Vallee-Bu (France). Pierre-Jean de Béranger (1780-1857) was a prolific French poet and chansonnier (songwriter), who enjoyed great popularity and influence in France during his lifetime, but faded into obscurity in the decades following his death. He has been described as "the most popular French songwriter of all time" and "the first superstar of French popular music". The Chansons were composed with fastidious care and are most notable for their clarity, wit and incisiveness, however the socialist and revolutionary content of his songs resulted in several brushes with the authorities, resulting in his nine month incarceration in La Force Prison. The plates: 1. Le Roi d'Yvetot 2. La Bacchante 3. Le Sénateur 4. La Gaudriole 5. Roger Bontemps 6. Ma Grand'Mère 7. Ma Mère Aveugle 8. Le Petit Homme Gris 9. La Bonne Fille 10. L'Éducation des Demoiselles 11. Madame Grégoire 12. Les Gueux 13. Le Vieux Célibataire 14. Le Commencement du Voyage 15. Requête des Chiens de Qualité 16. Vieux Habits! Vieux Galons! 17. Le Nouveau Diogène 18. Le Maitre d'École 19. La Chatte 20. Bon Vin et Fillette 21. L'Habit de Cour 22. Ce n'est plus Lisette 23. L'Hiver 24. la Bonne Vieille 25. La Vivandière 26. L'Exilé 27. La Bouquetière et le Croque-Mort 28. Le Bon Vieillard 29. L'Aveugle de Bagnolet 30. Les Cartes ou L'Horoscope 31. La Marquise de Pretintaille 32. Le Tailleur et la Fée 33. Le Violon Brisé 34. Les Hirondelles 35. La Fuite de l'Amour 36. Le Vieux Sergent 37. Le Voyageur 38. Le Grenier 39. Les Deux Grenadiers 40. Les Souvenirs du Peuple Champfleury, Monnier p.364; Escoffier, The Romantic Movement N°675; Marie, 653-692; Vicaire I-402. .

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Book number: 05079

Catalogue: Color-Plate Books

Keywords: DEVÈRIA, Achille BÉRANGER, Pierre-Jean de Books in French Caricatures Songs French Caricature

MONNIER, Henri; DEVÈRIA, Achille; BÉRANGER, Pierre-Jean de; RAPARLIER, Paul-Romain, binder

Chansons de P.J. Béranger Anciennes, Nouvelles Et inédites

Paris: Baudouin Frères, Éditeurs, 1828. Pierre-Jean de Béranger "The Most Popular French Songwriter of All Time" "The First Superstar of French Popular Music" Forty Hand Colored Lithograph Plates by Henri Monnier MONNIER, Henri, illustrator. Chansons de P.J. Béranger Anciennes, Nouvelles et Inédites, avec des vignettes de Devéria et des dessins coloriées d'Henri Monnier. Suivies des Procès Intentés a l'Auteur. Paris: Baudouin Frères, Éditeurs, 1828. First edition. Two octavo volumes (8 5/8 x 5 5/8 inches; 220 x 143 mm.). [iv], iv, [1]-439, 1, blank]; [iv], [1]-438 pp. Forty superb hand colored lithograph plates by Henri Monnier and numerous charming black & white vignettes by Achille Devèria. Handsomely bound ca. 1890 by Paul-Romain Raparlier (stamp signed in black on verso of front endpapers) in three quarter red morocco over marbled boards, ruled in gilt. Spines with five raised bands elaborately tooled and lettered in gilt in compartments, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, others uncut. A very fine copy of this extremely rare Monnier title complete with all forty hand colored plates. KVK locates no complete copies; OCLC locates just one complete copy in libraries and institutions worldwide: Paris-Est Marne-La-Vallee-Bu (France). Pierre-Jean de Béranger (1780-1857) was a prolific French poet and chansonnier (songwriter), who enjoyed great popularity and influence in France during his lifetime, but faded into obscurity in the decades following his death. He has been described as "the most popular French songwriter of all time" and "the first superstar of French popular music". The Chansons were composed with fastidious care and are most notable for their clarity, wit and incisiveness, however the socialist and revolutionary content of his songs resulted in several brushes with the authorities, resulting in his nine month incarceration in La Force Prison. RAPARLIER, Paul-Romain (1858-1900), binder. Master French Art Nouveux bookbinder Paul-Romain Raparlier "was the most enthusiastic innovator and the boldest French binder of the Nouveau period. He execrted many commissions from the London bookseller Henry Sotheran. The plates: 1. Le Roi d'Yvetot 2. La Bacchante 3. Le Sénateur 4. La Gaudriole 5. Roger Bontemps 6. Ma Grand'Mère 7. Ma Mère Aveugle 8. Le Petit Homme Gris 9. La Bonne Fille 10. L'Éducation des Demoiselles 11. Madame Grégoire 12. Les Gueux 13. Le Vieux Célibataire 14. Le Commencement du Voyage 15. Requête des Chiens de Qualité 16. Vieux Habits! Vieux Galons! 17. Le Nouveau Diogène 18. Le Maitre d'École 19. La Chatte 20. Bon Vin et Fillette 21. L'Habit de Cour 22. Ce n'est plus Lisette 23. L'Hiver 24. la Bonne Vieille 25. La Vivandière 26. L'Exilé 27. La Bouquetière et le Croque-Mort 28. Le Bon Vieillard 29. L'Aveugle de Bagnolet 30. Les Cartes ou L'Horoscope 31. La Marquise de Pretintaille 32. Le Tailleur et la Fée 33. Le Violon Brisé 34. Les Hirondelles 35. La Fuite de l'Amour 36. Le Vieux Sergent 37. Le Voyageur 38. Le Grenier 39. Les Deux Grenadiers 40. Les Souvenirs du Peuple Champfleury, Monnier p.364; Escoffier, The Romantic Movement N°675; Marie, 653-692; Vicaire I-402. .

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Book number: 04846

Catalogue: Color-Plate Books

Keywords: DEVÈRIA, Achille BÉRANGER, Pierre-Jean de RAPARLIER, Paul-Romain, binder Books in French Caricatures Songs French Caricature

MONNIER, Henri; CRUIKSHANK, George

Distractions

Paris & London: Paulin Libraire-Éditeur, Colnaghi, Son and Co, 1832. The Manners of French Society Executed with Gentle Satire MONNIER, Henry. CRUIKSHANK, George. Distractions, par Henry Monnier to is friend George Cruikshank. Paris & London: Paulin Libraire-Éditeur, Colnaghi, Son and Co. 1832. First edition. Oblong folio (11 x 16 inches; 280 x 406 mm.). Lithographed title-page with hand-colored vignette by George Cruikshank, and six (of nine) fine hand colored lithographed plates with twenty-nine titled images, lithographed by Delarue after Henry Monnier. An original album of six (of nine**) hand colored lithographed plates (plus the George Cruikshank plate) from this exceptionally rare series. Later plain wrappers, stitched as issued. A fine example. Housed in a fleece-lined, half dark green morocco over green cloth boards clamshell case. Spine with five raised bands decoratively ruled and lettered in gilt. Our plate count (of six) is identical to the copy in the Bibliotheque National de France. Champfleury also lists six plates and a frontispiece. "Between 1825 and 1827 Monnier passed much of his time in London, where he collaborated with Lami in what was to become the Voyage en Angleterre. On his return to Paris he embarked on a series of albums in which he recorded the manners and humors of the city with unprecedented profusion. Between 1826 and 1830 he satisfied the insatiable demand for his designs with almost 500 lithographs, nearly all of which were drawn with a pen and colored by hand. For each design he himself colored a master print and carefully supervised its subsequent preparation..Some of the salient titles in his human comedy may be mentioned. There are potpourris like Recréations du coeur et de l'esprit, Paris vivant, and Rencontres Parisiennes. Macédoine pittoresque. There are more closely focussed surveys like Les grisettes, Moeurs administratives, Galerie théâtrale, Boutiques de Paris, and Six Quartiers de Paris. There are suites like Jadis et aujourd'hui and Les contrastes, which take their departure from comparisons in time or of manners..Monnier was a satirist with a difference. His attitude towards his subjects hardly varies. His aim was to set down what he saw with elegance and precision, but with no overt interpretation or judgment" (Ray, The Art of the French Illustrated Book, p. 199). We have never seen another example of this excessively rare suite of plates. ** Marie list nine plates but the copy in the Bibliotheque Nationale de France has six plates. This is the second copy that we have seen in over fifty years and the previous copy also had six plates. We have located only two copies in institutions worldwide: Rijks Museum, Amsterdam (no plate count); Bibliotheque National de France (6 plates). Bobins III, 986 (with pictorial title and ten? hand colored plates, each with a number of vignettes); Marie, 475, 476, 478, 479, 480 & 482.(p. 256); Not in Ray; Not in Melcher; Not in Cohn. .

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Book number: 04777

Catalogue: Color-Plate Books

Keywords: CRUIKSHANK, George Books in French Caricatures French Caricature Cruikshankiana

MONNIER, Henri

Esquisses Parisiennes [Parisian Sketches]

Paris: Lithog de Delpech, 1827. Parisian Sketches" by Henry Monnier MONNIER, Henry. Esquisses Parisiennes, [Parisian Sketches] par Henri Monnier 1827. Paris: Delpech, 1827. First Edition. Oblong quarto (10 1/4 x 13 1/8 inches; 260 x 332 mm.). Complete with the plain lithographed frontispiece title-page and all ten fine and amusing hand colored lithograph plates of Parisian Sketches (all mounted on stubs). (Marie p.248). Bound ca. 1925 in quarter red morocco over marbled boards. Spine with four raised bands lettered in gilt, marbled end-papers. A few plates with very light marginal foxing, otherwise a very fine example of this great rarity. The plates: 1. Indiscrétion. (Indiscretion) 2. Un Mariage de raison. (A marriage of reason) 3. Un Monsieur à Bonnes Fortunes. (A gentleman with good fortune) 4. Les Bons Parens. (Good parents) 5. Un Parraine. (A sponsor) 6. Les Politiques. (Policies) 7. Une Méprise. (A misunderstanding) 8. Une Débutante. (A beginner) 9. Les Visites. (The visits) 10. Une Protectrice. (A protectress) Only one copy has appeared at auction over the past fifty years (1984). We sold a copy several years ago but it was bound without the lithograph title-page. Exceptionally rare with only one copy in libraries and institutions worldwide: The Morgan Library & Museum (NY, USA). According to OCLC that copy has twelve hand-colored lithograph plates. However Marie (p.248) states "N'est-ce pas erreur que Champfleury note que cette série comprend douze pièces? (Is it not in error that Champfleury notes that this series includes twelve plates?). "When Henry Monnier was barely old enough to trot off to school in his first pair of buttoned trousers and Charles Dickens was not yet born, Rowlandson was publishing the Comforts of Bath, and Miseries of Human Life. These humorous sketches of contemporary society suggest in their general plan and point of view Monnier's Esquisses Parisiennes (1827), Vues de Paris (1829), and various other works containing groups of scenes connected by a central theme, particularly the Petites Misères Humaines, for which Monnier may have borrowed Rowlandson's title and its companion work, Les Petites Félicités Humaines (1829). (Edith Melcher. The Life and Times of Henry Monnier, p.37). Bobins III, 967; Marie, 311-320; Melcher, p.37; Not mentioned in Gordon Ray. The Art of the French Illustrated Book. .

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Book number: 05253

Catalogue: Color-Plate Books

Keywords: Books in French Caricatures French Caricature

MONNIER, Henry

Galerie Théâtrale

Paris: Chez Hy. Gaugain et Cie..et chez E. Ardit, 1828. Monnier's "Theatrical Gallery" [MONNIER, Henry, illustrator]. Galerie Théâtrale. Paris: Chez Hy. Gaugain et Cie..et chez E. Ardit, [n.d. 1828]. Oblong folio. (9 3/4 x 13 1/4 inches; 471 x 336 mm.). Twenty-four numbered hand-colored plates lithographed by E. Ardit and H. Gaugain. Original brown paper pictorial front wrapper bound in. Plates Plates 13 through 24 with triangular embossed stamp of E. Ardit in the lower margin. Plate 11 inlaid to size, still with wide margins. Some scattered light foxing and browning, still an excellent copy of this very rare suite. Early twentieth century green cloth over boards with maroon morocco lettering labels on front cover and spine. From the celebrated collection of R. Descamps Scrive with his maroon morocco leather bookplate on front blank. OCLC locates just four copies in libraries and institutions worldwide: The Morgan Library & Museum (NY, USA); University of Chicago (IL, USA), University of Nortgh Carolina, Chapel Hill (NC, USA) and Toronto Public Library (ON, CA). "As a boy Monnier had been fond of fairs and popular entertainments, and in maturity he was fascinated by everything having to do with the stage. In this engaging album he offers an informal view of the theatrical life of his time, ranging from strolling acrobats and sideshows to the ballet and classical tragedy. Only an occasional performance is depicted; for the most part he is content to show actors at the side-scenes and backstage, together with a variety of other people associated with the theatre. Monnier's command of this little world is authoritative, and he presents it with vivacity" (Ray, The Art of the French Illustrated Book). "The theme of the street entertainer was popular with lithographers, although with the notable exception of Daumier, their miserable state was not often depicted..Monnier, a playwright and actor as well as a draftsman, included this low theatrical form in his Galerie théâtrale, which is otherwise devoted to scenes of actors, rehearsals, and back-stage life of the indoor legitimate theatre" (Beatrice Farwell, The Charged Image, p. 112, describing Pl. 1. "Sauteurs"). The Plates: 1. "Sauteurs" 2. "Phénoménel" 3. "Une Débutante" 4. "Une Queue" 5. "Un Foyer" 6. "Le derrière de la toile" 7. "Une loge" 8. "Un Comité de Lecture" 9. "Un Paradis" 10. "Une indisposition" 11. "Une représentation" 12. "Mamans de comédie" 13. "Chef d'emploi" 14. "Cabaleurs" 15. "Une Répétition" 16. "Le Corps des ballets" 17. "Troupe ambulante" 18. "Tragédiens" 19. "un ancien camarade" 20. "Un Parterre" 21. "Comedie Bourgeoise. (le mariage de figaro)" 22. "Le Bienfaiteurs" 23. "Une grande Coquette" 24. "Leçon de déclamation" Ray, The Art of the French Illustrated Book, 135. Marie 275-295. .

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Book number: 04489

Catalogue: Color-Plate Books

Keywords: Books in French Color-Plate Books Books in French Caricatures French Caricature

MONNIER, Henry

Galerie Théâtrale

Paris: Chez Hy. Gaugain et Cie..et chez E. Ardit, 1828. Monnier's "Theatrical Gallery" [MONNIER, Henry, illustrator]. Galerie Théâtrale. Paris: Chez Hy. Gaugain et Cie..et chez E. Ardit, [n.d. 1828]. Quarto (10 1/8 x 8 3/8 inches; 258 x 216 mm.). Twenty-four numbered hand-colored plates lithographed by E. Ardit and H. Gaugain. Plates 13 through 24 with triangular embossed stamp of E. Ardit in the lower margin. Plates skillfully extended at lower margins. Some very light scattered foxing, still an excellent copy of this very rare suite. Recently bound by Roger Devauchelle in full violet cloth, printed paper label on front board. Original brown paper pictorial front wrapper/title bound in. OCLC locates just four copies in libraries and institutions worldwide: The Morgan Library & Museum (NY, USA); University of Chicago (IL, USA), University of Nortgh Carolina, Chapel Hill (NC, USA) and Toronto Public Library (ON, CA). "As a boy Monnier had been fond of fairs and popular entertainments, and in maturity he was fascinated by everything having to do with the stage. In this engaging album he offers an informal view of the theatrical life of his time, ranging from strolling acrobats and sideshows to the ballet and classical tragedy. Only an occasional performance is depicted; for the most part he is content to show actors at the side-scenes and backstage, together with a variety of other people associated with the theatre. Monnier's command of this little world is authoritative, and he presents it with vivacity" (Ray, The Art of the French Illustrated Book). "The theme of the street entertainer was popular with lithographers, although with the notable exception of Daumier, their miserable state was not often depicted..Monnier, a playwright and actor as well as a draftsman, included this low theatrical form in his Galerie théâtrale, which is otherwise devoted to scenes of actors, rehearsals, and back-stage life of the indoor legitimate theatre" (Beatrice Farwell, The Charged Image, p. 112, describing Pl. 1. "Sauteurs"). The Plates: 1. "Sauteurs" 2. "Phénoménel" 3. "Une Débutante" 4. "Une Queue" 5. "Un Foyer" 6. "Le derrière de la toile" 7. "Une loge" 8. "Un Comité de Lecture" 9. "Un Paradis" 10. "Une indisposition" 11. "Une représentation" 12. "Mamans de comédie" 13. "Chef d'emploi" 14. "Cabaleurs" 15. "Une Répétition" 16. "Le Corps des ballets" 17. "Troupe ambulante" 18. "Tragédiens" 19. "un ancien camarade" 20. "Un Parterre" 21. "Comedie Bourgeoise. (le mariage de figaro)" 22. "Le Bienfaiteurs" 23. "Une grande Coquette" 24. "Leçon de déclamation" Ray, The Art of the French Illustrated Book, 135. Marie 275-295. .

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Book number: 04510

Catalogue: Color-Plate Books

Keywords: Books in French Color-Plate Books Books in French Caricatures French Caricature

MONNIER, Henri

Galerie Théâtrale

Paris: Chez Hy. Gaugain et Cie..et chez E. Ardit, 1828. Monnier's "Theatrical Gallery" A Very Unusual Example with the Plates in Two States - Colored and Plain [MONNIER, Henry, illustrator]. Galerie Théâtrale. Paris: Chez Hy. Gaugain et Cie..et chez E. Ardit, [n.d. 1828]. Oblong folio. (10 3/8 x 14 inches; 263 x 355 mm.). Twenty-four numbered hand-colored plates lithographed by E. Ardit and H. Gaugain. Bound together with an additional uncolored suite of the plates. Two original brown paper pictorial front wrappers bound in and one slightly shorter example laid in. Plates 13 through 24 with triangular embossed stamp of E. Ardit, Paris in the lower margin. Uncolored plates nos. 10 & 12 with small brown stain (1/2 inch x 1/2 inch) on lower margins and uncolored plate no. 15 with light marginal waterstain to top right corner (not affecting image). Some very light foxing affecting uncolored plates only. Bound by Pagnant ca. 1925 in three-quarter red straight-grain morocco over red pebbled cloth ruled in gilt. Smooth spine decoratively tooled and lettered in gilt, marbled endpapers top edge gilt. Joints a little rubbed. With the bookplate of renowned French collector and bibliographer Claude Rebeyrat (Un Autre Monde) on front paste-down. A superb copy of this amusing view of Parisian Theatre in the early nineteenth century. OCLC locates just four copies in libraries and institutions worldwide: The Morgan Library & Museum (NY, USA); University of Chicago (IL, USA), University of Nortgh Carolina, Chapel Hill (NC, USA) and Toronto Public Library (ON, CA). "As a boy Monnier had been fond of fairs and popular entertainments, and in maturity he was fascinated by everything having to do with the stage. In this engaging album he offers an informal view of the theatrical life of his time, ranging from strolling acrobats and sideshows to the ballet and classical tragedy. Only an occasional performance is depicted; for the most part he is content to show actors at the side-scenes and backstage, together with a variety of other people associated with the theatre. Monnier's command of this little world is authoritative, and he presents it with vivacity" (Ray, The Art of the French Illustrated Book). "The theme of the street entertainer was popular with lithographers, although with the notable exception of Daumier, their miserable state was not often depicted..Monnier, a playwright and actor as well as a draftsman, included this low theatrical form in his Galerie théâtrale, which is otherwise devoted to scenes of actors, rehearsals, and back-stage life of the indoor legitimate theatre" (Beatrice Farwell, The Charged Image, p. 112, describing Pl. 1. "Sauteurs"). The Plates: 1. "Sauteurs" 2. "Phénoménel" 3. "Une Débutante" 4. "Une Queue" 5. "Un Foyer" 6. "Le derrière de la toile" 7. "Une loge" 8. "Un Comité de Lecture" 9. "Un Paradis" 10. "Une indisposition" 11. "Une représentation" 12. "Mamans de comédie" 13. "Chef d'emploi" 14. "Cabaleurs" 15. "Une Répétition" 16. "Le Corps des ballets" 17. "Troupe ambulante" 18. "Tragédiens" 19. "un ancien camarade" 20. "Un Parterre" 21. "Comedie Bourgeoise. (le mariage de figaro)" 22. "Le Bienfaiteurs" 23. "Une grande Coquette" 24. "Leçon de déclamation" Bobins III, 974; Ray, The Art of the French Illustrated Book, 135. Marie 275-295. .

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MONNIER, Henry

Les Grisettes Leurs Moeurs

Paris: Giraldon Bovinet, 1828. Perhaps the most piquant and original of Monnier's albums" MONNIER, Henry. Les Grisettes Leurs Moeurs, leurs Habitudes, leurs bonnes Qualités, leurs Préjugés, leurs Erreurs, leurs Faiblesses, & C. Dessinés d'après Nature au sein de leurs plaisirs, de leurs occupations, &c &c. par Henry Monnier. Paris: Giraldon Bovinet, 1828. First edition. Quarto (11 3/8 x 8 1/2 inches; 288 x 215 mm.). Lithograph title-page and 42 hand-colored lithograph plates. Bound ca. 1830 in half maroon calf over marbled boards ruled in gilt, marbled endpapers. Publishers printed front brown wrapper and plain rear wrapper bound in. Excessively rare complete. From the celebrated collection of R. Descamps-Scrive with his blue morocco bookplate on front endpaper. On the first blank, the oval stamp of Regency of H.R.H. Mgr. the Duke of Orleans, during the Minority of Louis XV. King of France. "This is perhaps the most piquant and original of Monnier's albums. The grisette, an impressionable girl of the working class, was virtually his discovery. In the words of his title he "drew after nature" through these forty-two small lithographs, "their manners, their habits, their good qualities, their mistakes, their weaknesses," and so on. His scenes which include only two or three figures, typically show these appealing creatures at odds with their followers, but likely to get their way. The inventiveness of his designs and the persuasiveness of his captions are unfailing." (Ray No. 133). A grisette (sometimes spelled grizette) has referred to a French working-class woman from the late 17th century and remained in common use through the Belle Époque era, albeit with some modifications to its meaning. It derives from gris (French for grey), and refers to the cheap grey fabric of the dresses these women originally wore. The 1694 edition of the Dictionnaire de l'Académie française described a grisette as simply "a woman of lowly condition". By the 1835 edition of the dictionary, her status had risen somewhat. She was described as: a young working woman who is coquettish and flirtatious. Bobins III, 976; Colas 2130; Hiler p. 627 (24 plates only); Lipperheide 3660 (24 plates only); Marie 137-178; Ray no. 133; Rahir 547. The Plates: 1. Tu es bète Fanny! Pourquoi vous dites je m'en moque! You are stupid Fanny! Why you say I don't care! 2. Non, Gustave, je n'aime pas la société.. L'odeur de la pipe m'incommode. No, Gustave, I don't like society.. The smell of the pipe bothers me. 3. Je prefère ton logement à ceux d'Auguste et de Théophile. I prefer your lodgings to those of Auguste and Théophile. 4. Je sens bien que ma présence devient importune. I feel that my presence is becoming unwelcome. 5. Monsieur! Je ne vous connais pas. Sir! I do not know you. 6. Méchant! Bad! 7. Tinissez, c'est des bêtises. Hold on, that's nonsense. 8. On n'appelle pas son parrain, montrèsou. You don't call your godfather, montresou. 9. C'est votre poule ussi, la petite à la portière. It's your hen too, the little one at the door. 10. Nous étes tous des monstres. We are all monsters. 11. C'est pas l'amitié qui vous étouffe vous! It's not friendship that suffocates you! 12. Mademoiselle met des botte. Mademoiselle puts on boots. 13. Voulez vous voustaire? gros polisson! Do you want to shut up? big prank! 14. Tous! Cui ma chére, je m'ai toujours suffi. All! My dear, I have always been self-sufficient. 15. Dieux! ètes-vous mauvais sujet! Gods! are you bad subject! 16. Charles, tu te brules le sang. Charles, you're burning your blood. 17. On est trop bête quand on aime. We are too stupid when we love. 18. Monsieur, vous ne dites pas la vérité. Sir, you are not telling the truth. 19. Vous n'avez pas couché chez Aglaé. You haven't slept at Aglaé's. 20. Monsieur veut prendre son café. Monsieur wants to have his coffee. 21. Pauvre chéri. Poor darling. 22. Je vais me facher. I'm going to get mad. 23. Je suis donc un cornichon. So I'm a pickle. 24. Leon! vous me faites de la peine. Leon! you hurt me. 25. Votre femme vous sait-elle ici?.. vilain monstre? Does your wife know you are here?.. ugly monster? 26. T'es encore bonne enfant d't'attacher. You're still a good child to tie yourself up. 27. Fiez vous donc aux homme. So trust the men. 28. Je t'ai fait de la peine, moi.. mon petit Charles! I hurt you, me.. my little Charles! 29. Vous êtes aimable chez les autre! You are kind to others! 30. Ils sont propres, vos procédés! They are clean, your processes! 31. Tu m'attendais.. ma foi! j'arrive. You were expecting me.. my faith! I'm coming. 32. Nous avons donc fait un héritage. So we made a legacy. 33. Je veux mourir si j'ai jamais parle à votre Victor. I want to die if I ever spoke to your Victor. 34. Le Propriétaire veut des gens tranquille. The Owner wants quiet people. 35. Vous en avez donc fièrement de cousines. So you proudly have cousins. 36. À qui ça? To whom? 37. Ça n'empeche pas, vous avez encore été heureux de m'avoir. It does not prevent, you were still happy to have me. 38. Devenez suicide si ça vous amuse. Become suicide if it amuses you. 39. Allez embrasser celle d'ou vous venez. Go kiss the one you came from. 40. Tu connais bien le coeur de ta Sophie? Do you know your Sophie's heart well? 41. Edouard! je vais m'en aller. Edward! I am leaving. 42. Dame! on ne se refait pas, j'ai le défaut d'aimer. Lady! you can't get over it, I have the fault of loving. .

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MONNIER, Henri

Jadis Et Aujourd'Hui

Paris: Delpech, Editeur et Imprimeur en Lithographie, 1829. Then" and "Now"— Eighteen Scarce Hand-Colored Lithographed Plates By Le Maitre Monnier MONNIER, Henry. Jadis et aujourd'hui. Paris: Delpech, 1829. Title from front wrapper. Oblong folio (10 5/8 x 13 5/8 inches; 270 x 353 mm.). Pictorial lithograph wrapper and eighteen hand-colored lithographed plates, depicting bankruptcy, childhood, dressing, the boudoir, a physician, an attorney, the promenade, an evening gathering, etc."then" and "now." The plain rear wrapper is also bound in at the end. Bound ca. 1925 [by René Kieffer] in quarter dark blue straight-grain morocco over marbled boards. Spine decoratively tooled and lettered in gilt, marbled end-papers. Lower tip of spine a little chipped, minimal rubbing to board extremities, otherwise fine. The plates are very clean, with only minimal edge browning. A wonderful copy of this extremely scarce series of plates. Loosely inserted is a duplicate of plate 15 "Jadis. Une Soirée." Very scarce, with just two copies in libraries and institutions worldwide: Kunstbibli Staatliche Museen Zu Berlin (Germany), and The Morgan Library & Museum (NY, USA). The Morgan Library copy appears to be uncolored. "Between 1825 and 1827 Monnier passed much of his time in London, where he collaborated with Lami in what was to become the Voyage en Angleterre. On his return to Paris he embarked on a series of albums in which he recorded the manners and humors of the city with unprecedented profusion. Between 1826 and 1830 he satisfied the insatiable demand for his designs with almost 500 lithographs, nearly all of which were drawn with a pen and colored by hand. For each design he himself colored a master print and carefully supervised its subsequent preparation..Some of the salient titles in his human comedy may be mentioned. There are potpourris like Recréations du coeur et de l'esprit, Paris vivant, and Rencontres Parisiennes. Macédoine pittoresque. There are more closely focussed surveys like Les grisettes, Moeurs administratives, Galerie théâtrale, Boutiques de Paris, and Six Quartiers de Paris. There are suites like Jadis et aujourd'hui and Les contrastes, which take their departure from comparisons in time or of manners..Monnier was a satirist with a difference. His attitude towards his subjects hardly varies. His aim was to set down what he saw with elegance and precision, but with no overt interpretation or judgment"(Ray, The Art of the French Illustrated Book, p. 199). The Plates: 1. Jadis. Une Promenade. 2. Aujourd'hui. Une Promenade. 3. Jadis. Le Complément des Etudes. 4. Aujourd'hui. Le Complément des Etudes. 5. Jadis. L'Enfance. 6. Aujourd'hui. L'Enfance. 7. Jadis. La Toilette. 8. Aujourd'hui. La Toilette. 9, Jadis. Les Banqueroutiers. 10. Aujourd'hui. Banqueroutiers. 11. Jadis. Un Médecin. 12. Aujourd'hui. Un Médecin. 13. Jadis. Un Procureur. 14. Aujourd'hui. Etude d'avoué. 15. Jadis. Une Soirée. 16. Aujourd'hui. Une Soirée. 17. Jadis. Un Boudoir. 18. Aujourd'hui. Un Boudoir. ** An additional duplicate of plate 15 Jadis. Une Soirée. loosely inserted. Rahir, p. 548. Marie 399-416. .

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MONNIER, Henry

Jadis Et Aujourd'Hui

Paris: Delpech, Editeur et Imprimeur en Lithographie, 1829. Then" and "Now"— Eighteen Scarce Hand-Colored Lithographed Plates By Le Maitre Monnier MONNIER, Henri. Jadis et aujourd'hui. Paris: Delpech, 1829. Title from front wrapper. Oblong folio (Plate size: 10 3/4 x 14 inches; 274 x 356 mm.; Wrapper size: 11 5/8 x 16 1/8 inches; 296 x 410 mm.). Eighteen hand-colored lithographed plates, depicting bankruptcy, childhood, dressing, the boudoir, a physician, an attorney, the promenade, an evening gathering, etc."then" and "now." Loose, as issued, in the original cream-colored lithographed wrappers. Spine of wrappers neatly repaired. The plates are very clean, with only minimal edge browning. A wonderful copy of this extremely scarce series of plates. Very scarce, with just two copies in libraries and institutions worldwide: Kunstbibli Staatliche Museen Zu Berlin (Germany), and The Morgan Library & Museum (NY, USA). The Morgan Library copy appears to be uncolored. "Between 1825 and 1827 Monnier passed much of his time in London, where he collaborated with Lami in what was to become the Voyage en Angleterre. On his return to Paris he embarked on a series of albums in which he recorded the manners and humors of the city with unprecedented profusion. Between 1826 and 1830 he satisfied the insatiable demand for his designs with almost 500 lithographs, nearly all of which were drawn with a pen and colored by hand. For each design he himself colored a master print and carefully supervised its subsequent preparation..Some of the salient titles in his human comedy may be mentioned. There are potpourris like Recréations du coeur et de l'esprit, Paris vivant, and Rencontres Parisiennes. Macédoine pittoresque. There are more closely focussed surveys like Les grisettes, Moeurs administratives, Galerie théâtrale, Boutiques de Paris, and Six Quartiers de Paris. There are suites like Jadis et aujourd'hui and Les contrastes, which take their departure from comparisons in time or of manners..Monnier was a satirist with a difference. His attitude towards his subjects hardly varies. His aim was to set down what he saw with elegance and precision, but with no overt interpretation or judgment"(Ray, The Art of the French Illustrated Book, p. 199). The Plates: 1. Jadis. Les Banqueroutiers. 2. Aujourd'hui. Banqueroutiers. 3. Jadis. Le Complément des Etude. 4. Aujourd'hui. Le Complément des Etudes. 5. Jadis. L'Enfance. 6. Aujourd'hui. L'Enfance. 7. Jadis. La Toilette. 8. Aujourd'hui. La Toilette. 9, Jadis. Un Boudoir. 10. Aujourd'hui. Un Boudoir. 11. Jadis. Un Médecin. 12. Aujourd'hui. Un Médecin. 13. Jadis. Un Procureur. 14. Aujourd'hui. Etude d'avoué. 15. Jadis. Une Promenade. 16. Aujourd'hui. Une Promenade. 17. Jadis. Une Soirée. 18. Aujourd'hui. Une Soirée. Rahir, p. 548. Marie 399-416. .

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MONNIER, Henri

Modes Et Ridicules & Exploitation Generale Des Modes Et Ridicules de Paris Et Londres

Paris: Chez Gihaut Frères, 1825. Two of Henry Monnier's Exceptionally Rare Earliest Suites of Caricatures [MONNIER, Henry, illustrator]. [Modes et Ridicules]. Paris: Chez Gihaut Frères, Editeurs, [1825]. Large quarto (13 5/16 x 10 inches; 339 x 255 mm.). Ten fine hand colored lithograph plates, complete. Plates lithographed by Villain. Henry Monnier's exceptionally rare second album of caricatures. According to OCLC there are only two copies in libraries and institutions worldwide: The Morgan Library & Museum (NY, USA) and Herzogin Anna Amalia Bibliothek Klassik (Germany). [bound together with] [MONNIER, Henry, illustrator]. Exploitation generale des modes et ridicules de Paris et Londres. Paris: Chez Gihaut Frères, Editeurs, [1825]. Henry Monnier's exceptionally rare first album of caricatures. Large quarto (13 5/16 x 10 inches; 339 x 255 mm.). Five (of six) hand-colored lithographed plates. Plates lithographed by Senefelder. Missing the first plate "L'Espoir de sa Famille" Bound together in the original publisher's quarter red roan over light brown pictorial lithograph boards. Overall, an excellent copy of these extremely scarce suites. Housed in a felt-lined, half red morocco clamshell case, spine with five raised bands, ruled and lettered in gilt in compartments. According to OCLC there are only two copies in libraries and institutions worldwide: The Morgan Library & Museum (NY, USA) and Herzogin Anna Amalia Bibliothek Klassik (Germany). The plates are captioned: 1. Avec beaucoup de plaisir, Monsieur! (With much pleasure, Sir!) 2. Voulez-vous me faire l'honneur, Mademoiselle?.. (Will you do me the honor, Miss?) 3. Satisfaction personnelle. (Personal satisfaction) 4. Embarras de Soi-meme. (Self embarrassment) 5. Mes jours de danse sont passés!.. (My dancing days are over!..) 6. Mécontentement intérieur. (Domestic discontent) 7. Le Journal ne dit rien!.. (The journal does not say anything!..) 8. Distraction. 9. Je ne trouve plus de danseur! (I cannot find a dance partner anymore!) 10. Un Chanteur de Romances. (A singer of Romances.) Marie 76-85. [2]. Ayez pitié des Chiens. [3]. Pauvre Cousin regarde ton habit. [4]. Les Extravagances. (a little foxed) [5]. Les Antipodes. [6]. Une grande Dame. (a little browned and chipped at edges) (Missing the first plate "L'Espoir de sa Famille") "Monnier [1799-1877] grew up in the Parisian bourgeois world, where his father was an employee like those he was later to depict with such mastery in his lithographs..After he finished his education, he served as a notary of Justice, where he seems to have been valued chiefly for his handwriting..He then studied in the ateliers of Girodet and later Gros, where he learned lithography and became the friend of Bonington and Lami. His first lithographs, of which the album Modes et ridicules of 1825 is representative, are grotesque exaggerations in the manner of Rowlandson that call to mind J.-B. Isabey's Caricatures de J.J. [see Ray 101] and Lami's Les contretemps [see Ray 137]. Between 1825 and 1827 Monnier passed much of his time in London, where he collaborated with Lami in what was to become the Voyage en Angleterre. On his return to Paris he embarked on a series of albums in which he recorded the manners and humors of the city with unprecedented profusion. Between 1826 and 1830 he satisfied the insatiable demand for his designs with almost 500 lithographs, nearly all of which were drawn with a pen and colored by hand" (Ray, The Art of the French Illustrated Book, p. 199). Marie 60-64; Not in Melcher. .

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MONNIER, Henri

[Modes Et Ridicules] & [Séries Anglaise]

Paris: Gihaut Frères, éditeurs, 1825. One of Henry Monnier's Earliest Works Ten Superb Hand-Colored Lithograph Plates Depicting 'Absurd Fads' Bound together with Four of the Plates from the 'Série Anglaise' MONNIER, Henry, illustrator. [Modes et Ridicules] & [Séries Anglaise]. Paris: Gihaut Frères, éditeurs, 1825. Large folio (13 3/8 x 9 5/8 inches; 340 x 244 mm.). Ten superb hand colored lithograph plates, all mounted on stubs. All plates with the small oval stamp of the printer "CH.M" (Charles Motte) in the lower right-hand corner. Together with four additional plates from 'Série Anglaise' at end. The first plate a little foxed, otherwise clean. Bound ca. 1925 in quarter red calf over marbled boards, smooth spine lettered in gilt, marbled endpapers. A wonderful copy of an extremely scarce album with four superb additional lithographs at end. The plates: 1. Avec beaucoup de plaisir, Monsieur! (With a lot of fun, sir!) 2. Voulez-vous me faire l'honneur, Mademoiselle?.. (Will you do me the honor, Miss?) 3. Satisfaction personnelle. (Personal satisfaction) 4. Embarras de Soi-meme. (Self embarrassment) 5. Mes jours de danse sont passés!.. (My dance days are over!..) 6. Mécontentement intérieur. (Domestic discontent) 7. Le Journal ne dit rien!.. (The journal does not say anything!..) 8. Distraction. 9. Je ne trouve plus de danseur! (I cannot find a dance partner anymore!) 10. Un Chanteur de Romances. (A singer of Romances.) According to OCLC there are only two copies in libraries and institutions worldwide: The Morgan Library & Museum (NY, USA) and Herzogin Anna Amalia Bibliothek Klassik (Germany). The four additional hand colored lithograph plates from the 'Série Anglaise' published in June 1825. The first plate "Discontented" is very similar to plate no. 6 "Mécontentement intérieur" - the remaining three are totally different images. 1. Discontented. (London, Birchin, 1825) (Marie 69) 2. "I cannot maintain all my Relations." (Marie 72) 3. "My dear Sir, how do you do"? "Really Sir, you have the advantage of me". (Marie 73) 4. More haste, worse speed! (London, Birchin, 1825) (Marie 74) "The relatively small number of his lithographs published between 1825 and 1827 by various London editors indicates clearly enough that Monnier was not very successful in obtaining the popular favor and editorial support which would have established his reputation." (Edith Melcher. The Life and Times of Henry Monnier, p.34). There are copies of plate numbers 1 & 3, in the Bibliotheque Nationale de France. "Between 1825 and 1827 Monnier passed much of his time in London, where he collaborated with Lami in what was to become the Voyage en Angleterre. On his return to Paris he embarked on a series of albums in which he recorded the manners and humors of the city with unprecedented profusion. Between 1826 and 1830 he satisfied the insatiable demand for his designs with almost 500 lithographs, nearly all of which were drawn with a pen and colored by hand. For each design he himself colored a master print and carefully supervised its subsequent preparation.. Some of the salient titles in his human comedy may be mentioned. There are potpourris like Recréations du coeur et de l'esprit, Paris vivant, and Rencontres Parisiennes. Macédoine pittoresque. There are more closely focussed surveys like Les grisettes, Moeurs administratives, Galerie théâtrale, Boutiques de Paris, and Six Quartiers de Paris. There are suites like Jadis et aujourd'hui and Les contrastes, which take their departure from comparisons in time or of manners..Monnier was a satirist with a difference. His attitude towards his subjects hardly varies. His aim was to set down what he saw with elegance and precision, but with no overt interpretation or judgment" (Ray, The Art of the French Illustrated Book, p. 199). Marie, 76-85 & 69, 72, 73 & 74; Melcher, p.34. .

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MONNIER, Henri

Moeurs Administratives

Paris: Delpech, 1828. One of Monnier's Great Albums Groveling Bureaucrats at Work, aka Idle MONNIER, Henry. Moeurs Administratives, Dessinées d'apres Nature par.. Paris: Delpech, 1828. First edition, Series II only. Oblong quarto (10 1/4 x 13 7/8 inches; 262 x 352 mm.). Complete with the engraved vignette title-page and twelve hand-colored lithographed plates, all mounted on stubs. Bound ca. 1925 [by René Kieffer] in half maroon straight-grain morocco over marbled boards. Spine decoratively tooled and lettered in gilt, marbled end-papers. The plates: 1. Huit heures. (Eight o'clock) 2. Neuf heures. (Nine o'clock) 3. Dix heures. (Ten o'clock) 4. Dix heures et demie. (Half past ten)) 5. Midi. (Noon) 6. Une heure. (One o'clock) 7. Deux heures. (Two o'clock) 8. Quatre heurs. (Four o'clock) 9. M. le Chef de Division donnant une audience. (the head of division giving a lecture) 10. Un jour d'audience. A day of lecturing) 11. Demande d'Augmentation. (Increased requests) 12. MM. le Directeur, Chefs, Sous-Chefs, Employés, Surnumérarires, etc. etc. (The whole staff, etc.) A rare album with OCLC locating just one copy of this second series in libraries & institutions worldwide (Gordon N. Ray #136) at the Morgan Library & Museum NY, USA). "Here Monnier mocks the hypocritical, self-serving bureaucrat" (Farwell, The Charged Image). "In this album, "drawn after nature by Henry Monnier, former employee at the Ministry of Justice," the artist shows a typical governmental office hour by our from eight to four and concludes with four salient scenes outside this time scheme. His principle themes are the inactivity of the staff, their lack of individual character, and their entire submission to superior authority. The curve of supple obsequiousness in terms of which Monnier depicts the office hierarchy "going to compliment a New Excellency" (no. 12) shows how far he was from being a "stenographic copyist" or a "mirror."" (Ray, The Art of the French Illustrated Book, pp. 202-203). "In the album of lithographs called Moeurs administratives (1828) he [Monnier] represented the hierarchy of a government bureau, from the janitors up to the chef de division, and the daily routine, from the gossip around the stove between eight and nine in the morning, through the series of social calls and official inspections, the leisurely luncheon hours, the complimentary call of ceremony upon a newly appointed cabinet minister, to the departure with great-coats, top hats, and umbrellas at four in the afternoon. (Edith Melcher. The Life and Times of Henry Monnier, p. 20). "Between 1825 and 1827 Monnier passed much of his time in London, where he collaborated with Lami in what was to become the Voyage en Angleterre. On his return to Paris he embarked on a series of albums in which he recorded the manners and humors of the city with unprecedented profusion. Between 1826 and 1830 he satisfied the insatiable demand for his designs with almost 500 lithographs, nearly all of which were drawn with a pen and colored by hand. For each design he himself colored a master print and carefully supervised its subsequent preparation.. Some of the salient titles in his human comedy may be mentioned. There are potpourris like Recréations du coeur et de l'esprit, Paris vivant, and Rencontres Parisiennes. Macédoine pittoresque. There are more closely focussed surveys like Les grisettes, Moeurs administratives, Galerie théâtrale, Boutiques de Paris, and Six Quartiers de Paris. There are suites like Jadis et aujourd'hui and Les contrastes, which take their departure from comparisons in time or of manners..Monnier was a satirist with a difference. His attitude towards his subjects hardly varies. His aim was to set down what he saw with elegance and precision, but with no overt interpretation or judgment" (Ray, The Art of the French Illustrated Book, p. 199). The first series (Marie, 185-190) was published in the same year (in regular quarto format) and contained six hand-colored lithographed plates: 1. Chef de division. (Head of division) 2. Chef de bureau. (Office manager) 3. Sous chef. (Trainee chef) 4. Employé. (Employee) 5. Surnuméraire. (Supernumerary officer) 6. Garcon de bureau. (Office boy) Marie, 191-203; Melcher, p. 20; Ray, #136. .

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