LANE, T[heodore]

Theatrical Pleasures

London: Pubd. by Thos McLean, 1826. Excessively Rare Series of Caricatures of the London Theater LANE, T[heodore]. Theatrical Pleasures. London: Pubd. by Thos. McLean, [n.d. ca. 1826]. First edition, complete. Large quarto (12 5/8 x inches; 321 x mm.). Six numbered hand-colored engraved plates each tipped-onto hinged stiff card mounts and measuring 10 1/2 8 5/8 inches; 265 x 220 mm. Published without explanatory text. The plates are captioned: "Crowding to the Pit;" "Contending for a Seat;" "Snug in the Gallery;" "Taken Places Occupied;" "Feasting in the Saloon;" "Turning out half satisfied." Bound by Zaehnsdorf ca. 1900 (stamp-signed on verso on front free endpaper) in three-quarter red straight-grain morocco, ruled in gilt, over red morocco-grain cloth boards. Spine decoratively tooled and lettered in gilt. Top edge gilt. Marbled endpapers. Armorial bookplate of renowned collector Clarence S. Bemens on front pastedown. A wonderful example of this fine series of satirical scenes of the London theater audiences of the 1820s. Excessively rare. We have been able to locate only one other copy in OCLC and RLIN (at Harvard University Library). We have had this title once before - in 2008 which we supplied to The Exotic and the Beautiful collection of Norman Bobins (Bobins III, 869). Painter and caricaturist Theodore Lane (1800-1828) "Painter and caricaturist Theodore Lane was apprenticed to JC Barrow at Battle Bridge. Shortly after completing his time, he produced The Life of an Actor, 1822, six pls, which had some popular success. After meeting Pierce Egan, he issued with him as author, Life of an Actor Peregrine Proteus, 1825 with 27 colour plates, and many woodcuts. During the Queen Caroline scandals, Lane worked for the print seller Humphrey, 1820-1821, and did several satirical prints probably in collaboration with Theofore Hook. He died tragically on 21 February 1828 by falling through a skylight, being so badly mutilated that he was only recognisable by his card case (Houfe). Bobins III, 869; Not in Abbey or Tooley. .

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Book number: 05504

Catalogue: Color-Plate Books

Keywords: Caricatures Theater

LANTÉ, Louis Marie; GATINE, Georges Jacques

Cent Cinq Costumes Des Départemens de la Seine Inférieure, Du Calvados, de la Manche Et de L'Orne

Paris: Durand ainé, 1830. With 105 Beautifully Hand-Colored Lithographed Plates Depicting French Costume [LANTÉ, Louis Marie, Pécheux, and GATINE, George Jacques, illustrators]. Cent cinq costumes des départemens de la Seine Inférieure, du Calvados, de la Manche et de l'Orne. Paris: Durand ainé, Rue de la Paix 4, A Caen, chez Mancel, [n.d. ca. 1830]. Second issue. Folio (12 7/8 x 9 1/4 inches; 327 x 235 mm.). Hand-colored engraved title and 105 brilliantly hand-colored engraved plates, some heightened with gum arabic, by Gatine after Lanté and Pécheux (nineteen of the plates are signed Pécheux). Plate numbers 15, 74, 76, 78, 79, 80, 81 and 103 are watermarked "J Whatman". Plate numbers 56, 60, 62, 65, 69, 92 and 97 are watermarked "L & Conte". Contemporary half tan calf over marbled boards, spine with seven shallow multi-ruled bands, decoratively tooled in compartments in black and lettered in gilt, marbled endpapers. Joints expertly and almost invisibly repaired. A fine clean copy. Originally published in Paris in 1827 (Chez l'editeur) with title: Costumes des femmes du pays de Caux, et de plusieurs autres parties de l'ancienne province de Normandie. Dessinés la plupart par M. Lanté, gravés par M. Gatine et coloriés avec une explication pour chaque planche. The first issue also has descriptive text by La Mésangère. According to Colas, the plates in the second issue are the original plates, issued without text and with the frontispiece of the first issue as title. There are two states of the frontispiece: with and without the address of the publisher. In this copy, the frontispiece includes the address of the publisher. "Les planches de cette second émission me paraissent aussi bonnes que celles de la première" (Colas). ["The plates of this second issue appear as good to me as those of the first"] (Colas). "The engraver Georges-Jacques Gatine (born 1773) is considered one of the 19th century masters of fashion plate etchings. He was closely associated with L'abbe de la Mesangere who was director of Journal des Dames. Gatine was the engraver for the important portfolio Le Bon Genre (1817) which satirized Parisian social life and proved to be a inspiration for the art of Daumier. Gatine executed several other works based on drawings by Lante. The genre painter Louis-Marie Lante (born 1789) did watercolors for several collections of costume published by Journal des Modes after 1817" (Mead Cain, Printseller, at http://www.costumes.org/HISTORY/100pages/1827peasants.htm). Colas 1770; Hiler, p. 526; Lipperheide, 1196; Bobins IV, 1241. .

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Book number: 04827

Catalogue: Color-Plate Books

Keywords: GATINE, Georges Jacques Color-Plate Books Books in French Books in French Costume French Caricature

LANTÉ, Louis Marie; GATINE, Georges-Jacques; LA MÉSANGÈRE, Pierre

Costumes Des Femmes de Hambourg, Du Tyrol, de la Hollande

Paris: Chez l'éditeur, 1827. The Costumes of the Women of Hamburg, Tyrol, Holland, Switzerland, Franconia, Spain, the Kingdom of Naples One Hundred Superb Hand Colored Plates by Lanté and Gatine LANTÉ, Louis-Marie. GATINE, Georges-Jacques. LA MÉSANGÈRE, Pierre. Costumes des femmes de Hambourg, du Tyrol, de la Hollande, de la Suisse, de la Franconie, de l'Espagne, du Royaume de Naples, etc.; Dessinés pour le plupart par M. Lanté, gravés par M. Gatine, et coloriés, avec une explication pour chaque planche. Paris: Chez l'éditeur, 1827. First edition. Folio (12 5/8 x 9 1/4 inches; 321 x 235 mm.). [iv], [i]-[iii], 4-40, [41], [42, blank] pp. One hundred fine hand-colored engraved plates depicting the female costumes of Hamburg, the Tyrol, Switzerland and Spain. Some light sporadic foxing to a few plates, otherwise a splendid example of one of the rarest of books illustrated by Lanté and Gatine. Modern full blue morocco over boards, covers richly decorated in gilt to an arabesque design, smooth spine elaborately decorated and lettered in gilt, red marbled endpapers. The text is by Pierre La Mésangère, who was famously the editor of a long running Parisian fashion magazine (Journal des Dames); the plates are by Gatine, after Lante and Horace Vernet, all of whom were contributors to the same magazine. Colas remarks that there are a great number of variations in color and even subject in the plates. He adds that this beautiful set of costume plates is rare, particularly when complete with the text. "The engraver Georges-Jacques Gatine (born 1773) is considered one of the 19th century masters of fashion plate etchings. He was closely associated with L'abbe de la Mesangere who was the director of Journal des Dames for which he supplied many plates over the years. Gatine was the engraver for the 115 designs which made up the important portfolio Le Bon Genre (1817) which satirized Parisian social life and proved to be a inspiration for the art of Daumier. Gatine executed several other works based on drawings by Lante. The genre painter Louis-Marie Lante (born 1789) did watercolors for several collections of costume published by Journal des Modes after 1817" Bobins II, 466; Brunet III, 785; Colas, 1774; Hiler p. 526; Lipperheide I, 571. The plates: 1. Cuisinière de Hambourg. 2. Cuisinière de Hambourg. 3. Cuisinière de Hambourg. 4. Cuisinière de Hambourg. 5. Fille de chambre de Hambourg. 6. Bouquetière de Hambourg. 7. Fruitière de Hambourg. 8. Femme de Stoerzing, dans le Tyrol. 9. Femme de Pusterthal, dans le Tyrol. 10. Jeune fille de la Vallée d'Oetz, dans le Tyrol. 11. Jeune Fille de la Vallée de Pfaqfflar, dans le Tyrol. 12. Jeune fille de Tegernsée, district du Tyrol. 13. Jeune fille de Tegernsée, district du Tyrol. 14. Laitière de Berne. 15. Cuisinière de Berne. 16. Jeune fille du Canton de Glaris, en Suifse. 17. Bernoise. 18. Bernoise. 19. Jeune fille du Valais. 20. Vaudoise. 21. Jeune Fille du Canton de Soleure. 22. Jeune Fille du Canton de Soleure. 23. Jeune Fille du Canton de Lucerne. 24. Jeune Fille du Canton de Lucerne. 25. Jeune Fille du Frickthal. 26. Jeune Fille du Canton de Zurich. 27. Jeune Fille du Gouggisberg, dans le Canton de Berne. 28. Jeune Femme du Canton d'Argovie, dans les environs de Baden. 29. Jeune Demoiselle de la Nord-hollande. 30. Jeune Demoiselle de la Nord-hollande. 31. Jeune Dame de la Nord-hollande. 32. Jeune Dame de la Nord-hollande. 33. Jeune Fille de la Côte occidentale de la Frise. 34. Fiancée de l'Ile de Merken, en Hollande. 35. Fiancée du Canton de Fribourg, en Suifse. 36. Fiancée du Canton de Fribourg, en Suifse. 37. Jeune fille du Canton d'Unterwalden, en Suifse. 38. Jeune fille du Canton de Zug, en Suifse. 39. Jeune fille du Canton de Thurgovie, en Suifse. 40. Jeune fille du Canton de Zuric, en Suifse. 41. Jeune fille du Canton d'Uri, en Suifse. 42. Jeune fille du Canton de Schuytz, en Suifse. 43. Jeune fille du Canton de Schaffhouse, en Suifse. 44. Laitière d'Oberhasli, dans le Canton de Berne. 45. Jeune fille du Canton de Basle, en Suifse. 46. Paysanne de Bade, aux environs de Basle. 47. Jeune fille Vandale. 48. Paysanne de la Haute Carniole, en Habit de fête. 49. Paysanne Alsacienne du Kochersberg. 50. Paysanne Alsacienne du Kochersberg. 51. Fribourgeoise. 52. Bernoise coiffée du bonnet à dentelle de crin. 53. Gouggisberg. Marraine. 54. Paysanne des environs de Kell. 55. Anabaptiste Suifse. 56. Servante de Zurich, annonçant la naifsance d'un enfant. 57. Paysanne de la Gueldre. 58. Servante de Basle. 59. Paysanne des environs de Mâcon. 60. Arlesienne. 61. Costume de Madrid. 62. Costume de Madrid. 63. Costume de Madrid. 64. Costume de Madrid. 65. Costume de Madrid. 66. Costume de Madrid. 67. Costume de Séville. 68. Costume de Séville. 69. Costume de Séville. 70. Servante de Salamanque. 71. Servante de Salamanque. 72. Costume de Valence. 73. Costume de Valence. 74. Costume de Mayorque. 75. Costume de Mayorque. 76. Costume de Mayorque. 77. Costume de Salamanque. 78. Costume de Barcelone. 79. Dame de Schweinfurt. 80. Servante de Schweinfurt. 81. Dame de Cobourg. 82. Servante de Cobourg. 83. Servante de Cobourg. 84. Servante de Cobourg portant de l'eau. 85. Jeune fille des environs de Bamberg. 86. Paysanne des environs de Wurtzbourg. 87. Poissarde de Bordeaux. 88. Poifsarde de Bordeaux. 89. Laitière de Peyssac. Environs de Bordeaux. 90. Laitière de Cauderan. 91. Jeune femme de la Vallée d'Aure. 92. Jeune Dame de Bagnères de Bigorre. 93. Jeune fille de Bugard. Pyrénnées françaises. 94. Jeune fille de Tourle. Pyrénées espagnoles. 95. Jeune femme de Bucharo. Pyrénées espagnoles. 96. Femme d'Aran. Pyrénées espagnoles. 97. Jeune fille de Paganica dans le Royaume de Naples. 98. Jeune fille de Caravilli, dans la Province de Molise. 99. Fille de la Province d'Abruzze. 100. Femme de Cassano, dans la Province de Cosenza. .

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Book number: 05350

Catalogue: Color-Plate Books

Keywords: GATINE, Georges-Jacques LA MÉSANGÈRE, Pierre Books in French Costume

LANTÉ, Louis Marie; GATINE, Georges-Jacques; La Mésangère

Galerie Francaise de Femmes CéLèbres Par Leurs Talens, Leur Rang Ou Leur Beautè

Paris: Chez l'editeur, 1827. French Feminine Costume of the 12th to 18th century Seventy hand-Colored Plates, Many Heightened with Gold LANTÉ, [Louis Marie]. Galerie Francaise de Femmes Célèbres par leurs talens, leur rang ou leur beautè. Portraits en pied, dessinés par M. Lanté, la plupart d'après des originaux inédits; gravés par M. Gatine, et coloriès; avec des notices biographiques et des remarques sur les habillemens. Paris: Chez l'Éditeur, 1827. First edition. Folio (13 1/8 x 9 1/2 inches; 333 x 241 mm.). Letterpress half-title, letterpress title. List of plates at end.Complete with all seventy full page hand-colored plates engraved by Georges-Jacques Gatine, each with a leaf of explanatory text opposite the plate (all but five with the original tissue guards). Near contemporary half brown morocco over marbled boards, double ruled in gilt. Spine with five raised bands decoratively tooled and lettered in gilt in compartments, marbled endpapers. Some rubbing to boards, corners a little bruised. Light scattered foxing (mainly to margins). Overall, a very good copy. Includes French feminine costume of the 12th to 18th century. The genre painter Louis-Marie Lante (born 1789) did watercolors for several collections of costume published by Journal des Modes after 1817. The engraver Georges-Jacques Gatine (born 1773) is considered one of the 19th century masters of fashion plate etchings. The text is by Pierre de La Messangere (1761-1831), originally a teacher of Philosophy at the College de La Flèche and subsequently an author, journalist and publisher of numerous series of fashion plates including the Journal des Dames et des Modes 1797-1839. Colas, 1765; Hiler, p. 526; Lipperheide, 1077. .

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Book number: 04838

Catalogue: Color-Plate Books

Keywords: GATINE, Georges-Jacques La Mésangère Books in French Costume

LECOMPTE, Hippolyte; SCHARF, George, artist; HULLMANDEL, Charles, printer; BAYNTUN, binder

Costumes Francais, de 1200 à 1715

London: Printed by C. Hullmandel for Rodwell & Martin, 1830. One Hundred Fine Hand Colored Lithographs Depicting French Costume Between 1200 and 1715 [LECOMPTE, Hippolyte]. SCHARF, George, artist. Costumes Francais, de 1200 à 1715. London: Printed by C. Hullmandel for Rodwell & Martin, ca. 1830. Small octavo (5 9/16 x 4 1/4 inches; 142 x 108 mm.). One hundred fine numbered hand colored lithograph plates with legends (including pictorial title-page) drawn on stone by George Scharf. Plates nos. 50 & 52 slightly shorter on lower blank margin. Handsomely bound ca. 1920 by Bayntun of Bath for C.E. Lauriat Co. Boston. Full dark red crushed morocco, covers with gilt-rule border, three gilt dots at corners, blind-tooled lances extending onto boards from raised bands. Spine with five raised bands decoratively paneled and lettered in gilt in compartments, decorative gilt board edges, gilt ruled turn-ins, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. A wonderful example of historical French costume with fine hand coloring. The subjects include Joan of Arc, Bloody Mary, Queen of Scots, Ninon de Lenclos, many French kings and queens, courtiers, mistresses, soldiers, knights, politicians and admirals, from five centuries of French history. According to Hiler, these plates are reduced and reversed copies of those in [Hippolyte Lecomte's] Costumes Civils et Militaires de la Monarchie Française, which was first published in 1820 in four volumes. The present work was published as a single volume and in a smaller format by the renowned London-based printer and lithographer Charles Hullmandel (1789-1850). According to DNB, "Most of the major improvements made to lithography in Britain in the 1820s and 1830s can be attributed to Hullmandel, and in this period he was also the most prolific printer of pictorial lithographs in the country." In addition to earning his living through printing, Hullmandel also worked with scientists like Michael Faraday in search of new ways to perfect the art of lithography. Images for the present work were actually executed by Hullmandel's friend George Scharf (1788-1860), a Bavarian-born artist who was among the vanguard of lithographers operating in London. Bobins II, 551; Colas, 1808; Hiler 533 (1820 edition); Lipperheide, 1074 (1820 edition). .

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Book number: 05470

Catalogue: Color-Plate Books

Keywords: SCHARF, George, artist HULLMANDEL, Charles, printer BAYNTUN, binder Costume French History

[LEECH, John, illustrator]; LEIGH, Percival

Fiddle Faddle Fashion Book, the

London: Chapman and Hall, 1840. A Scarce Little Sucker One of the Rarest of All Leeches Victorian Unisex Costumes - Lady-Like Gentlemen [LEECH, John, illustrator]. [LEIGH, Percival]. [The Fiddle Faddle Fashion Book. And Beau Monde à La Française enriched with Numerous Highly Colored Figures of Lady-Like Gentlemen. Edited by The Author of The Comic Latin Grammar.] The Costumes and Other Illustrations by John Leech. London: Chapman and Hall, 1840. Large quarto (11 1/16 x 8 5/8 in; 282 x 219 mm.) 12 pp. Four hand-colored lithograph plates (imprinted 12 November 1840) each with multiple figures for a total of forty-six illustrations, from Leech's 1840 satire with text by Percival Leigh. Original pictorial front and back printed yellow wrappers bound in. Front wrapper with early ink signature at top (slightly cropped). Contemporary half dark blue hard grain morocco ruled in blind over marbled boards. Smooth spine lettered in gilt, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt. With the armorial bookplates of George William Mercer Henderson on front paste-down and the Duke of Gloucester on front endleaf. Some foxing to endleaves not affecting any of the text or the colored plates. A fine copy. One of the rarest of all suites by Leech, with OCLC noting only eight copies in institutional holdings worldwide. "It was one of Leech's special delights to caricature the absurd fashions of the day in dress, language, manners and literature. These plates contain over fifty figures with text contributed by Percival Leigh" (Field). "..The French fashion plates created the right spring-board for this satire; the French caricaturist Gavarni was a fashion illustrator for Le Journal des Gens du Monde, 1831, so that the humour and accuracy in costume caricature often went together. Leech was very quick to spot this and produced in 1840, a witty explosion of designs entitled The Fiddle Faddle Fashion Book and Beau Monde A La Francaise containing "numerous Highly-Coloured Figures of Lady-Like Gentlemen". The text was by his friend Leigh and the engraved plates showed a sort of unisex costume where dandies in ringlets and waisted coats actually appeared like women!.. The early Victorian period was the scene for great beauty in female dress and male costume was neither as drab nor as dreary as is often supposed. Early on in his career.. he produced The Fiddle-Faddle Fashion Book and the early lithographs pay great attention to both the dandy and the fashionable lady. Leech's acutely observant eye was always watching out for the over-fastidious, the superfinely frivolous, so that he could engage their foibles with his pencil. Fiddle-Faddle was done under the influence of [George] Cruikshank, and particularly under that side of Cruikshank that had created the Monstrosities plates of the late 'twenties. Leech's approach to fashion was therefore tinged with Regency satire but more liberally diluted with straightforward Victorian incredulity and disapproval! His attitude to caricaturing fashion can be seen very clearly if one looks closely at Leech himself as the fashionable man." Simon Houfe. John Leech and the Victorian Scene, pp. 39 & 139. Artist and illustrator John Leech (1817-1864) provided the illustrations for Dickens' A Christmas Carol, amongst other celebrated Victorian volumes, and was one of the first illustrators for the classic satirical journal, Punch. He established "a convention of social humour that was to last until the 1920s..Extravagantly praised by Ruskin, Leech's often careless but never crude drawings have survived in charm and humour to give us a refreshing glimpse of mid-Victorian society" (Simon Houfe, The Dictionary of British Book Illustrators and Caricaturists 1800-1914). Percival Leigh (1813-1889) ".. comic writer, son of Leonard Leigh of St. Cross, Winchester, was born at Haddington on 3 Nov. 1818. He was educated for the medical profession at St. Bartholomew's Hospital, where he made acquaintance of his fellow-students, John Leech [q. v.], Albert Smith, and Mr. Gilbert à Beckett. He became L.S.A. in 1834, and M.R.C.S. in 1835, and resolved to practice his profession; but he soon abandoned medicine for literature. In 1841 he became a member of the 'Punch' staff very shortly after its formation, and he contributed to that journal until his death. Leigh was a good friend to Leech, whom he helped in many difficulties, and was also intimate with Thackeray. He was a good amateur actor, and with Dickens, Leech, and Jerrold was a member of the company which acted Ben Jonson's 'Every Man in his Humour' on 21 Sept. 1845, at Miss Kelly's Theatre, Dean Street, Soho (now the Royalty). Leigh played Oliver Cob. He never lost the interest in science which his early training had given him, and was jocularly known to his friends as 'The Professor.' Frith has noted his 'quaintly humorous conversation.' In 1850 Leigh lived at 10 Bedford Street, Bloomsbury, but before 1860 he had removed to Oak Cottage, Hammersmith, where he led a secluded life, and died on 24 Oct. 1889. He was the last survivor of the early writers in 'Punch.' His wife, Letitia Morrison, predeceased him." (Wikipedia). Abbey, Life, 308; Field, p. 40. .

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Book number: 04882

Catalogue: Color-Plate Books

Keywords: LEIGH, Percival Caricatures Costume English History

LEECH, John

Mr. Briggs & His Doings

London: Bradbury and Evans, 1860. Scarce Leech His Most Popular Character LEECH, John. Mr. Briggs & His Doings. Fishing. London: Bradbury and Evans, 1860. First edition. Oblong folio (12 1/2 x 18 in; 318 x 457 mm). Twelve hand-colored lithograph plates heightened with gum arabic, mounted on artist board. Descriptive text with imprint at foot of each plate. Plates 8 and 9 are unsigned; plates 2 and 3 are signed "J Leech;" plates 1, 4, 5, 6, 7, 10, and 12 are signed "JL;" and the two illustrations on plate 11 are signed "L". Loose as issued, with the original brown paper pictorial upper wrapper. Wrapper a little worn and with a few marginal tears at edges otherwise an excellent copy. Housed in a half crimson morocco clamshell case. "Of the two or three personalities created by Leech, none was more widely known or better loved than Mr. Briggs. Spielman says of him that his creation 'is sufficient to render the year 1849 memorable to the annals of the Land.' It was in this year that he made his first appearance in 'Punch.' Many of his adventures are said to have been founded on Leech's own visits to Sir John Millais whose favorite shooting and fishing grounds are reproduced in a great number of the drawings" (Field). "And yet, with all his modesty and reserve, so great was his talent and appeal that from the moment of his first appearance as an illustrator in 'Bentley's Miscellany', as a cartoonist in 'Punch', and as a caricaturist of the 'Mulready Envelope'..there was not an artist in England whose work was so well known or who was so popular as John Leech" (Field). "Messrs. Bradbury and Evans have much pleasure in introducing to the Public these Prints, which have been enlarged from Mr. John Leech's Original Drawings in 'Punch,' by a new and most ingenious process lately brought in operation by the Electro-Block Printing Company" (inner front wrapper) The Plates: I. Mr. Briggs Contemplates a Day's Fishing. II. Mr. Briggs Manages His Punt Himself. III. Mr. Briggs Tries For a Perch. IV. Mr. Briggs Catches a Jack. V. Mr. Briggs Catches and Eel. VI and VII. Mr. Briggs Goes Out Fly-Fishing. VIII to XII. Mr. Briggs Goes Salmon Fishing. "Price 10. 6d. in a wrapper. Any Print may be had separately, price 1s." (inside wrapper) Field, p. 211. Tooley 299. .

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Book number: 02377

Catalogue: Color-Plate Books

Keywords: Angling Caricatures Sports

LEPRINCE, Xavier

Inconvéniens D'Un Voyage En Diligence

Paris: Chez Gihaut Freres.. et Sazerac et Duval, 1826. The Disadvantages of Traveling by Stagecoach Illustrated in Twelve Highly Amusing Lithographs LEPRINCE, Xavier. Inconvéniens d'un Voyage en Diligence. [The Disadvantages of Traveling by Stagecoach]. Douze Tableaux, Lithographiés par M. Xavier Leprince. Paris: Chez Gihaut Freres.. et Sazerac et Duval, 1826. First edition. Oblong folio (9 1/16 x 12 3/8 inches; 231 x 314 mm.) Publisher's original tan pictorial lithograph front wrapper (as title-page) and twelve hand-colored lithographed plates. Lithography by Englemann. Publisher's printed tan lithographed front wrapper, rear wrapper replaced. Housed in a fleece lined, quarter black morocco clamshell case, spine with five raised bands decoratively tooled and lettered in gilt in compartments. A near fine copy, the plates are clean and the hand coloring is quite super. The inconvenient rigors of travel by coach are illustrated in twelve highly amusing plates. OCLC locates just five copies in libraries and institutions worldwide: Morgan Library & Museum (NY, US); Stanford University Library (CA, US); Brown University (RI, US); University of Liverpool (UK), and Kunstbiblio Staatliche Museen zu Berlin (Germany). Auguste-Xavier Leprince (1799-1826), French painter and lithographer, 'was the son and pupil of the painter and lithographer Anne-Pierre Leprince and the elder brother of the painters Robert-Leopold Leprince (1800-47) and Gustave Leprince (1810-37). Leprince recieved a medal at his first Salon of 1819 for one of six entries, five of which were landscapes of 17th century Dutch inspiration, which came possibly via the work of Jean-Louis Demarne. Leprince quickly learnt to vary the contents of his paintings: at the Salon of 1822 his entries included three Paris street scenes, three portraits, and two scenes on board a frigate. His numerous Paris street scenes usually depicted some well-known contemporary event..In the last year of his short life Leprince showed himself to be a sensitive watercolour painter and lithographer, publishing a set of twelve lithographs entitled Inconvéniens d'un Voyage en Diligence" (Grove Dictionary of Art). Leprince was credited with inventing a process of aquatint engraving which imitated a sepia wash or Chinese ink. He used this process for a number of Russian costume plates published either singly or bound in sets. The Plates: 1. Comment j'ai perdu mon.. coin? 2. Quand en n'a pas de memiore, il avoir des jambes! 3. La coie et la pluie, que c'est romantique. 4. Plaisantez vous? nous sommesa jeun depuis avant hier. 5. Cruels effets d'une digestion interrompue. 6. Dévouement forcé. 7. Pauvre bibi !! j'en mourrai ..peut etre. 8. Voila ce que c'est que de ne pas mettre en régle. 9. Allons! Allons! Il faut partir. 10. Le courage à l'Epreuve. 11. Les amusements des gentils douaniers. 12. Les douceurs du Retour. Bobins III, 946; Lipperheide 3658. .

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Book number: 05385

Catalogue: Color-Plate Books

Keywords: Books in French Caricatures Coaching French Caricature

LEPRINCE, Xavier

Inconvéniens D'Un Voyage En Diligence

Paris: Chez Gihaut Freres.. et Sazerac et Duval, 1826. The Disadvantages of Traveling by Stagecoach Illustrated in Twelve Highly Amusing Lithographs LEPRINCE, Xavier. Inconvéniens d'un Voyage en Diligence. [The Disadvantages of Traveling by Stagecoach]. Douze Tableaux, Lithographiés par.. Paris: Chez Gihaut Freres.. et Sazerac et Duval, 1826]. First edition. Oblong folio (10 3/8 x 13 5/8 inches; 264 x 346 mm.) Twelve hand-colored lithographed plates. Lithography by Englemann. Some light foxing, mainly marginal except the first two plates. Publisher's quarter black roan over dark plum patterned boards, front cover lettered in gilt, smooth spine. Aside from the light foxing this is a near fine example. The inconvenient rigors of travel by coach are illustrated in twelve highly amusing plates. OCLC locates just five copies in libraries and institutions worldwide: Morgan Library & Museum (NY, US); Stanford University Library (CA, US); Brown University (RI, US); University of Liverpool (UK), and Kunstbiblio Staatliche Museen zu Berlin (Germany). Auguste-Xavier Leprince (1799-1826), French painter and lithographer, 'was the son and pupil of the painter and lithographer Anne-Pierre Leprince and the elder brother of the painters Robert-Leopold Leprince (1800-47) and Gustave Leprince (1810-37). Leprince recieved a medal at his first Salon of 1819 for one of six entries, five of which were landscapes of 17th century Dutch inspiration, which came possibly via the work of Jean-Louis Demarne. Leprince quickly learnt to vary the contents of his paintings: at the Salon of 1822 his entries included three Paris street scenes, three portraits, and two scenes on board a frigate. His numerous Paris street scenes usually depicted some well-known contemporary event..In the last year of his short life Leprince showed himself to be a sensitive watercolour painter and lithographer, publishing a set of twelve lithographs entitled Inconvéniens d'un Voyage en Diligence" (Grove Dictionary of Art). Leprince was credited with inventing a process of aquatint engraving which imitated a sepia wash or Chinese ink. He used this process for a number of Russian costume plates published either singly or bound in sets. The Plates: 1. Comment j'ai perdu mon.. coin? 2. Quand en n'a pas de memiore, il avoir des jambes! 3. La coie et la pluie, que c'est romantique. 4. Plaisantez vous? nous sommesa jeun depuis avant hier. 5. Cruels effets d'une digestion interrompue. 6. Dévouement forcé. 7. Pauvre bibi !! j'en mourrai ..peut etre. 8. Voila ce que c'est que de ne pas mettre en régle. 9. Allons! Allons! Il faut partir. 10. Le courage à l'Epreuve. 11. Les amusements des gentils douaniers. 12. Les douceurs du Retour. Bobins III, 946; Lipperheide 3658. .

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[LEPRINCE, Xavier]

Métamorphoses D'Arlequin

Bruxelles: , 1826. Scarce Odyssey of Harlequin As a Character In France's Political Drama 1791-1826 [LEPRINCE, Xavier]. Métamorphoses de'Alequin. Parades. [Jouées sur le Théâtre Français. Bruxelles: n.p. 1826]. First edition. Oblong quarto. Twelve hand-colored lithographed stub-mounted plates, size: 10 5/8 x 14 1/8 inches (271 x 360 mm). Bound late 19th century by G. Carayon in half deep cordovan straight-grain morocco over marbled boards. Bookplate of Ch. Bouret on front pastedown. Some very light foxing mainly on the first plate but still a fine copy. Extremely scarce, with only one copy (at the BM) recorded by OCLC/KVK, and no copies coming to auction within the last thirty-six years. The BM atrributes this album to Henri-Gerard Fontallard but that cannot be so. Close comparison with caricatures signed by Leprince and Fontallard conclusively demonstrate that the style here is dramatically different than Fontallard's but extremely close to Leprince's, particularly in the faces of the figures depicted. A fascinating and intriguing album that appears to be a political allegory with the theater as backdrop and Harlequin as character in the political events in France 1791-1826. The fact that the album was published, without publisher or artist attribution, in Belgium rather than France strongly suggests fear of running afoul of French press censorship laws of the era. Auguste-Xavier Leprince (1799-1826), French painter and lithographer, 'was the son and pupil of the painter and lithographer Anne-Pierre Leprince and the elder brother of the painters Robert-Leopold Leprince (1800-47) and Gustave Leprince (1810-37). Leprince recieved a medal at his first Salon of 1819 for one of six entries, five of which wew landscapes of 17th century Dutch inspiration, which came possibly via the work of Jean-Louis Demarne. Leprince quickly learnt to vary the contents of his paintings: at the Salon of 1822 his entries included three Paris street scenes, three portraits, and two scenes on board a frigate. His numerous Paris street scenes usually depicted some well-known contemporary event..In the last year of his short life Leprince showed himself to be a sensitive watercolour painter and lithographer.." (Grove Dictionary of Art). "G. Carayon was a 19th century French bookbinder. Yvan Christ, in an article in L'Estampille, describes his activity: 'Around 1875, bookbinder Carayon became an art cartonnage [paper over boards] bookbinder, featuring popular bindings in white velin boards and enhanced watercolors, using silk, cloth, leather, and Japon paper. The success of his cartonnage bindings was great. But bindings he made in a more conventional manner should not be forgotten'" (Trans. from Devaux, Dix Siecles de Reliere, p. 351). The Plates: 1. 1re. Parade. - 1791. Columbine délaisée.. 2. 2e. Parade. - 1795. L'Orateur Populaire.. 3. 3e. Parade. - 1795. Le Directorien.. 4. 4e. Parade. - 1799. - Le 18 Brumaire.. 5. 5e. Parade. - 1800. - Le Grenadier des Consuls.. 6. 6e. Parade. - 1808. - Le Chambellan.. 7. 7e. Parade. - 1814. - Le Marquis de Bergame.. 8. 8e. Parade. - 1815. Le Champ de Mai.. 9. 9e. Parade. - 1820. Tartufe.. 10. 10e. Parade. - 1823. Le Diner.. 11. 11e. Parade. - 1825. La Clôture.. 12. 12e. Parade. - 1826. Le Congréganiste. .

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LEWIS, W., publisher

Naval Victories of Great Britain, from the Commencement of the War in the Year 1803 to 1816;

London: Printed by W. Lewis, 1820. The Naval Victories of Great Britain Scarce Large-Paper Issue with Forty-Two Hand Colored Aquatint Plates LEWIS, W. publisher. Naval Victories of Great Britain, from the Commencement of the War in the Year 1803 to 1816; Being a series of coloured views of naval engagements, from drawings by officers in the actions represented. London: Printed by W. Lewis, [1820]. Folio (14 x 10 1/4 inches; 356 x 260 mm.). Letterpress title and forty-two hand colored aquatint plates by Sutherland, Bailey, Lewis and others, all mounted on gray paper with pen-line borders. Manuscript list of plates loosely inserted. Contemporary half dark olive scored calf over brown pebble-grain cloth boards, ruled in gilt. Smooth spine elaborately decorated and lettered in gilt, brown endpapers, all edges gilt. Joints expertly repaired. A series of aquatints depicting British naval engagements during the Napoleonic Wars and the War of 1812, including such celebrated encounters as the Battles of Trafalgar on 21 October 1805 and single ship actions such as that between USS Chesapeake and HMS Shannon on 1 June 1813. The aquatint plates are similar in style and compositions to those used to illustrate James Ralfe's Naval Chronology of Great Britain (1818) and James Jenkins' Naval Achievements of Great Britain (1817), though possibly more scarce. This example is close in size to copies of the Naval and the Martial achievements that we have in our inventory. This issue appears to be untraced. The plates are arranged chronologically, and would appear to be collected from Ralfe's Naval Chronology (1820) and issued without the text, under the above title. OCLC locates just two examples (both with forty-two plates) in libraries and institutions worldwide: Yale University Library (CT/USA) and The Alexander Turnbull library (New Zealand). Bobins IV, 1283; Abbey, Life 342; Prideux, 348; Tooley, 392; (the last three referring to Ralfe's Naval Chronology of Great Britain). The Plates: 1. Frontispiece. Trafalgar - Statue & Columns [Untitled] 2. Defeat of Adml. Linois by Commodore Dance, Feby.15th 1804. 3. Defence of the Centurion in Vizagapatam Road, Septr. 18th 1804. 4. Sir Graham Moore's Action, Octr. 5th 1804. 5. Sir Graham Moore's Action off Cape St. Mary, Octr. 5th 1804. 6. Sir Robert Calder's Action, July 22nd 1805. 7. Situation of the hostile Squadrons on the Morning of the 23rd July, 1805. 8. Capture of La Didon, Augt. 10th 1805. 9. Situation of the Temeraire at half past 3 p.m. October 21st, 1805. 10. Sir Richd. Strachan's Action, Novr. 5th 1805. 11. Capture of La Gueriere - July 19th 1806. 12. Capture of the Maria Riggersbergen, Octr. 18th 1806. 13. The squadron under the command of Sir J.T. Duckworth forcing the narrow channel of the Dardanelles. February 19th 1807. 14. Destruction of the Turkish Fleet, Feby. 19th 1807. 15. Capture of La Thetis, Novr. 10th 1808. 16. The Theseus, Captn. J. Beresford, leading the British squadron of 4 sail of the line, near the Isle of Grouais, in the face of the Brest fleet of 8 sail of the line, obliging them to haul their wind & preventing their joining the l'Orient squadron then laying ready to put to sea, Feby. 24th 1809. 17. The Prometheus & Melpomene, standing into the Gulph of Riga, to meet the boats of the British Squadron, and prizes cut out during the night. August, 1809. 18. Capture of La Furieuse, Augt. 6th 1809. 19. Capture of La Furieuse, Augt. 6th 1809. 20. Capture of Le Sparviere, May 3rd 1810. 21. The Spartan, Captn. J Brenton, engaging a French squadron in the Bay of Naples, May 3rd, 1810. 22. Capture of the Island of Banda, Augt. 9th 1810. 23. Sir W. Hoste's Action off Lissa, March 13th 1811. 24. The Imperieuse & Shames attacking a Castle and Gun boats, Novr. 2nd 1811. 25. Capture of the Pomone. Novr. 29th 1811. 26. The Leviathan, Imperieuse, Curacoa, and Eclair attacking two towns on the coast of Genoa, June 27th 1812. 27. The Imperieuse & Cephalus engaging an enemy's squadron in sight of the town of Naples. Augst. 17th 1812. 28. Capture of the Argus, August 14th 1813. 29. Destruction of the Flibustier, Octr. 13th 1813. 30. The squadron under the command of Rear Adml. Stopford engaging three French frigates. 31. The Squadrons Becalmed. 32. The Northumberland, Captn. Hotham engaging two French frigates. 33. Capture of Curacoa. 34. The squadron under the command of Sir J. Brisbane attacking Fort Maurigio. 35. Surrender of Tamatave. 36. Destruction of the French frigates l'Arianne & l'Andromache. 37. The Rinaldo, Captn. J Anderson engaging four privateers. 38. Battle of Trafalgar. 39. Bombardment of Algiers. 40. The action renewed by night. 41. Capture of the Pomona. 42. Trafalgar Column - To Commemorate the Exploits of the British Navy [Untitled]. .

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LISLE, Joseph

Joe Lisle's Play Upon Words

London: Thomas M'Lean, 1828. A Delightful Gallimaufry of Visual Wordplay, Corniness, and Puns in Caricature Forty Hand Colored Aquatint Plates LISLE, Joseph. Joe Lisle's Play Upon Words. London: Thomas M'Lean, 1828. First edition. Small oblong quarto (6 5/8 x 10 3/8 inches; 169 x 268 mm.). Letterpress title-page. Forty hand colored aquatint plates. Title-page and plates watermarked "1825". Bound ca. 1920 by Bayntun of Bath (stamp-signed on verso of front free endpaper). Full crimson straight-grain morocco, covers with decorative gilt borders. Spine with five raised bands decoratively tooled and lettered in gilt in compartments, decorative gilt turn-ins, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. With the armorial bookplate of Harry Lawrence Bradfer-Lawrence (1887-1965) on front paste-down. Some very occasional marginal soiling, the fifth color plate with a short (one inch) repaired lower marginal tear, otherwise a near fine copy. Here, then, is a charming collection by a journeyman satirical caricaturist who, if not a peer of his contemporaries Cruikshank, Seymour, Heath, Alken, and Woodward, left a notable mark, however small, in the field. As such, any work by Lisle should be considered for any serious collection of British caricature. As to why so little is known and so little produced by Lisle, one can only speculate that he was, as many journeyman artists and tradesmen of his time, perhaps a little too familiar with the inside of a bottle of ardent spirits. OCLC/KVK record only four copies in institutional holdings worldwide. Joseph Lisle (1798-1839) was a comedian, actor and artist who enjoyed a moderately successful career as a caricaturist in London during the 1820s and 30s. Based upon a small collection of individual caricatures found in the British Museum, Joseph Lisle specialized in visual wordplay and social satire. Humorous prints bearing his name began to appear the late 1820s in the windows of several London print-sellers, with Thomas McLean, G.S. Tregear and George Hunt being amongst his most noteworthy patrons. His caricatures usually dealt in pun-based humor and were chiefly rendered in etching and aquatint. George Hunt, who was an engraver as well as a print-seller, helped Lisle to realize several of his designs on copper, although intriguingly did not publish all of the plates he etched. Typical examples of his work include The Man of Taste (c.1828 - 1830), which shows a man asking a butcher to cut him some boiled beef with "a Ham'y Knife to give it a Relish." And Cheap Music (1820 - 1828), in which the owner of a music shop advises a frugal customer that the only "cheap fiddles" to be had in the area are the phoney elixirs sold by the quack doctor next door. His most substantial endeavor in the field of pun-prints was Joe Lisle's Play Upon Words, a series of 40 engravings published in a collected edition by Thomas McLean in January 1828. Muggy Weather, the seventeenth plate in the series, sets the tone for what follows, showing group of laborers downing large mugs of beer to refresh themselves on a warm day. The humor my be decidedly old old fashioned by our standards but it undoubtedly appealed to his contemporaries, as another notice from The Weekly Dispatch makes clear: Lisle was seemingly less preoccupied with overt forms of political or social satire, although his few forays into this field are worthy of consideration. The World. When a man is down - keep him down (1830) for example, offers a bleak view of the hardships of contemporary life and hints at Lisle's Radical sympathies. The pro-Radical journal Figaro in London also recommended one of his political prints to its readers. The Plates: 1. A Stage Manager 2. A Stable Character 3. My Hog & I. (Mahogany) 4. Elegant Extracts 5. Sootable (Suitable) Characters 6. A Charger 7. A Sophist-Ical Argument 8. An Action off Spit-Head 9. Taking a Galloway. (Girl Away) 10. The Dread-Nought taking A Smack 11. Moore's (Blackamoors.) Loves of the Angels 12. A Pioneer. (A Pie-on-here) 13. Misadvised. (Miss-advised) 14. A Dutch Place. (Plaice) 15. May we meet more numerous & never less respectable 16. Metaphysics. (Met-he-Physics?) 17. Muggy Weather 18. (History) His-story 19. A Diving Belle 20. The Infant in Arms 21. A Man Milling her. (Milliner) 22. Mistaken. (Miss-taken) 23. Canon Law. (Cannon) 24. A very amusing Company. (Ham-using) 25. A Common Sewer. (Sower) 26. Empailed. (Him pailed) 27. Mutual Civility 28. An Armless (Harmless) Character 29. Coming off with a claw (éclat) 30. A Grenadier. (Granny-dear) 31. A Coal Meter. (A Coal meet-Her) 32. A Rain Bow. (Beau) 33. An Officious Character. (O-Fish's) 34. A Jewel. (A Jew-Ill.) 35. A Sub-Lime Character 36. A Cutlass. (Cut-Lass) 37. A Chaste Character. (Chased) 38. An Ad-mired Character 39. Lath 40. Plaister Bobins II, 684; Not in Abbey, Prideaux or Tooley. .

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Book number: 05684

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LOUTHERBOURG, Philipp Jakob de

Romantic and Picturesque Scenery of England and Wales, the

London: Printed for Robert Bowyer.. by T. Bensley, 1805. Eighteen Fine Hand Colored Aquatint Views Of England and Wales LOUTHERBOURG, P.J. de. The Romantic and Picturesque Scenery of England and Wales, From drawings made expressly for this undertaking by P.J. de Loutherbourg, Esq. R.A. With historical and descriptive accounts of the several places of which views are given. Engraved by William Pickett, and coloured by John Clark. London: Printed for Robert Bowyer.. by T. Bensley, 1805.   First edition, first issue. Folio (18 3/8 x 13 1/4 inches; 467 x 333 mm.). [2], [36] leaves. Two title-pages and two leaves of descriptive text for each plate (titles and text in both English and French; the French text in double-columns). Eighteen hand-colored aquatint plates. Text and plates watermarked J. Whatman 1801 and 1805. A few light marginal stains to some text leaves, overall a near fine copy. Recently rebound to contemporary style in full dark green straight-grain morocco. Covers with gilt ruled borders enclosing a decorative gilt border. Spine richly gilt decorated and lettered in compartments, decorative gilt turn-ins, marbled end-papers. First issue copies contain a signature and imprint underneath each plate and watermarks no later than 1805. Abbey, Scenery, 9. Tooley 305. . .

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LUND, F[rederik] C[hristian]; KITTENDORFF, Johann Adolf

Danske Nationaldragter

Copenhagen: [C.W. Stinck], 1862. Danish National Costumes Thirty Superb Hand Colored Lithographs LUND, F[rederick]. C[hristian]. (illustrator). Danske Nationaldragter. [Lithographerede af Ad. Kittendorff]. Copenhagen: [C.W. Stinck], 1862. [Second enlarged edition]. Large folio (17 1/8 x 12 7/8 inches: 435 x 327 mm.). Title page with outline map of Denmark printed in black, title, author and date calligraphed in red. Thirty mounted, exquisitely hand colored lithograph plates with very detailed backgrounds, a few heightened with gum arabic. All plates within a wide gold frame with captions in Danish, three of which are signed and dated 1861. A few plates with very minor foxing. The plates lithographed by Johann Adolf Kittendorff (1820-1902). Bound ca. 1920 by Anker Julius Kyster (1864-1939) in half brown morocco over patterned green cloth boards, smooth spine decoratively tooled and lettered in gilt, 'watered silk' endpapers and paste-downs, all edges gilt. Unidentified Ex Libris book-plate of verso of front flyleaf. A wonderful example of an extremely rare and beautiful color-plate costume book. Unrecorded 'Large Paper' edition, with eighteen additional plates not found in the first edition of 1850, and preceding the second edition of 1890 noted by Hiler, Colas, and Lipperheide. The actual plate sizes are 9 7/8 x 6 7/8 inches; 251 x 175 mm.). OCLC /KVK note only two copies, at Yale and the Boston Athenaeum. There are, incredibly, no copies at Det Kongelige Bibliotek, Denmark. Frederick Christian Lund (1826-1901) was a Danish soldier and genre painter. He began sketching local country people in their best Sunday attire while serving in the army during the First Schesvig War (1848-1851). His representations, a valuable record of regional dress in the first half of the nineteenth century, met with such success that after the war and after Denmark had lost the provinces of Schvesvig and Hostein to the Prussians in that conflict. Lund was commissioned in 1864 to complete drawings depicting the traditional costumes of the other Danish regions. The Plates: 1. En Pige fra Valby. 2. En Skovshovedpige. 3. En Fisker fra Skovshoved. 4. En siaellandsk Bonde. 5. En Hedebopige. 6. En Amager Pige. 7. En Mand fra Amager. 8. En Kone fra Haudrup. 9. En Pige fra Refsnaes. 10. En Pige fra Laeso. 11. En Mand fra Fuur. 12. En Mand fra Mors. 13. En Kone fra Salling. 14. En Pige fra Ringkiobing Egnen. 15. En Mand fra Randers-Egnen. 16. En Pige fra Blaavandshuk. 17. En Kone fra Fano. 18. En Kone fra Romo. 19. En Kone fra Amrum. 20. En Pige fra Fohr. 21. En Kone fra Ostenfeldt. 22. En Pige fra Dannevirke. 23. En Pige fra Aero. 24. En Kone fra Avernako. 25. En Kone fra Dreio. 26. En Kone fra Falster. 27. En Kone fra Bornholm. 28. En Kirkedragt fra Bornholm. 29. En Pige fra Ofjord. 30. En Pige fra Modrevallis. Bobins IV, 1244; Cf. Colas 1917-1918; Cf. Hiler p. 554-555; Cf. Lipperheide 1048. .

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MADOU, Jean-Baptiste; HAMELRYCK, Jean-Louis Van

Costumes Belgiques, Civils, Militaires, Religieux, Anciens Et Modernes

Bruxelles: J.B.A.M. Jobard, 1825. A Superb Set in the Original Wrappers of Madou & Van Hamelryck's Costumes of Belgium Complete with 124 Fine Hand Colored Lithograph Plates MADOU, Jean-Baptiste, and [Jean-Louis Van HAMELRYCK]. Costumes Belgiques, Civils, Militaires, Religieux, Anciens et Modernes. Dessinés par Madou. Vingt-cinq livraisons de cinq planches, et une feuille de texte. Bruxelles: J.B.A.M. Jobard & Jobard Freres, 1825, 1826, 1827, 1828 & 1830. First edition in the original twenty-five parts as issued. Folio (12 3/8 x 9 1/2 inches; 314 x 241 mm.). [i-ii, engraved vignette title-page, verso blank], [iii]-iv, Introduction, [1-9]; [10-17]; [18-25]; [26-33]; [34-41]; [42-49]; [50-57]; [58-65]; [66-73]; [74-81]; [82-89]; [90-97]; [98-105]; [106-113]; [114-121]; [122-129]; [130-137]; [138-145]; [146-153]; [154-161]; [162-169]; [170-177]; [178-185]; [186-193]; [193-196], [i]-iv, table. pp. Paper fault on lower margin of pp. 58-59 (part 11), not affecting text. Complete with 124 fine hand colored lithograph plates, the first 55 signed by Madou, plates 56-124 signed by Van Hamelryck. Plate 68 (part 14) with small stain just touching image; plates 69 & 70 with blank lower right hand corner torn away, not affecting images; Plate 94 (part 17) with stains to outer blank margins, not affecting image; Plate 96 (part 20) with very slight marginal foxing, plates 97, 98 & 100 with light marginal staining, none affecting images; Plate 111 (part 23) with light marginal staining, not affecting image; Plates 116, 117, 119 & 120 (part 24) with light marginal staining, not affecting images; Publishers lithographed blue/gray wrappers with advertisements on back covers. Wrapper of part 14 with small tear to lower corner of spine. Aside from the aforementioned minor faults this is a near fine set. A remarkable survival, housed in a tan cloth chemise within a full red straight-grain morocco folding case, smooth spine decoratively ruled and lettered in gilt in compartments, marbled edges. "Some of the first plates are drawn by Madou, while the last 60 bear the letters V.H. or the full name Van Hemelryck with the dates 1828 to 1830. Cf. Vinet No. 2208, where the work is listed under J. Madou." (Von Lipperheide II, 963). Jean-Baptiste Madou (1796-1877) was a Belgian painter and lithographer. Madou was born in Brussels. He studied at the Brussels Academy of Fine Arts and was a pupil of Pierre Joseph Célestin François. While draftsman to the topographical military division at Kortrijk, he received a commission for lithographic work from a Brussels publisher. It was about 1820 that he began his artistic career. Between 1825 and 1827 he contributed to Les Vues pittoresques de la Belgique, to a Life of Napoleon, and to works on the costumes of the Netherlands, Costumes Belgiques, Civils, Militaires, Religieux, Anciens et Modernes (1825-1830), XII dessins lithographies pour 1833 and later made a great reputation by his work in La Physionomie de la société en Europe depuis 1400 jusqu'à nos jours (1836) and Les Scenes de la vie des peintres and Soixante-Dix Vues Pittoresques de la Hollande, de la Belgique et du Grand-Duche de Luxembourg (1842). Madou was also the lithographer for most of the hand-colored plates in Jean Joseph de Cloet's rare Voyage Pittoresque en Belgique.. collection comprenant plus de 200 vues interessantes.. (1835). "His works would appear to be scarce on the market" (Bobins II, p. 46). Jean-Louis Van Hamelryck (active 1825-1850) was a Belgian painter and lithographer. Several of his works are in the Rijks Museum, Amsterdam. Bobins II, 538; Brunet III, 1289; Colas, 1932; Hiler, p. 560; Lipperheide II, 962. .

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Book number: 05473

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Keywords: HAMELRYCK, Jean-Louis Van Books in French Books in Parts Costume