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. .

David Brass Rare Books (ABAA/ILAB)Professional seller

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. .

David Brass Rare Books (ABAA/ILAB)Professional seller

Book number: 05198

Catalogue: Color-Plate Books

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

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. .

David Brass Rare Books (ABAA/ILAB)Professional seller

Book number: 05494

Catalogue: Color-Plate Books

Keywords: Books in French Caricatures French Caricature

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. .

David Brass Rare Books (ABAA/ILAB)Professional seller

Book number: 04490

Catalogue: Color-Plate Books

Keywords: Books in French Caricatures French Caricature

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. .

David Brass Rare Books (ABAA/ILAB)Professional seller

Book number: 01866

Catalogue: Color-Plate Books

Keywords: Books in French Caricatures Nineteenth-Century Literature French Caricature

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. .

David Brass Rare Books (ABAA/ILAB)Professional seller

Book number: 04920

Catalogue: Color-Plate Books

Keywords: Books in French Caricatures French Caricature

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. .

David Brass Rare Books (ABAA/ILAB)Professional seller

Book number: 05312

Catalogue: Color-Plate Books

Keywords: Books in French Caricatures French Caricature

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. .

David Brass Rare Books (ABAA/ILAB)Professional seller

Book number: 04494

Catalogue: Color-Plate Books

Keywords: Books in French Caricatures French Caricature

MONNIER, Henry

Moeurs Parisiennes

Paris: Chez Gihaut frères, 1828. Henry Monnier's Rare Album of Parisian Manners MONNIER, Henry. Moeurs Parisiennes.. [Parisian Manners]. Paris: Chez Gihaut frères, 1828. First edition. Quarto (10 7/8 x 8 1/2 inches; 276 x 216 mm.). Ten humorous hand colored plates lithographed by de Villain. Minimal, mainly marginal foxing, otherwise near fine. Recently bound by Roger Devauchelle in full violet cloth, black leather label lettered in gilt on front board. Publishers pink printed wrapper/title bound in before the plates. A very scarce little album - we have only seen this title once before. According to OCLC there are just two copies located in institutions worldwide (Herzogin Anna Amalia Biblithek Klassik, and Kunstbiblio Staatliche Museen Zu Berlin) . The plates: 1. "Les Sots sont ici bas pour nos menus plaisirs" - (The fools are down here for our pleasures) 2. "Un Futur" - (A future) 3. "Une Education à faire" - (An education..) 4. "Inutilités" - (Utilities) 5. "On ne vous voit plus Milord!." - (We can not see you My Lord!) 6. "La rafraichissemens sont pour les dames" - (The refreshments are for the ladies) 7. "Une demoiselle à produire" - (Introducing a young lady) 8. "Des Mamans de Comédie" - (The mothers of comedy) 9. "Monsieur mon Fils est-il chez lui?.." - (Sir, my son is home) 10. "Le Contentement de sa personne" - (Contented People) Henry Monnier (1799-1877) was a French dramatist, caricaturist and actor. Between 1827 and 1832, he produced several albums of lithographs, representing the customs and features of his contemporaries. "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, Henry Monnier, #115-124; Melcher, p.31 (note). .

David Brass Rare Books (ABAA/ILAB)Professional seller

Book number: 04508

Catalogue: Color-Plate Books

Keywords: Books in French Caricatures French Caricature

MONNIER, Henri

Moeurs Parisiennes

Paris: Chez Gihaut frères, 1828. Henry Monnier's Rare Album of Parisian Manners MONNIER, Henry. Moeurs Parisiennes.. [Parisian Manners]. Paris: Chez Gihaut frères, 1828. First edition. Large oblong quarto (10 7/8 x 14 inches; 276 x 355 mm.). Original wrapper as lithograph title-page and ten humorous hand colored plates lithographed by de Villain. First plate with tiny (5/8 inch) repairs to lower blank margin. Handsomely bound ca. 1920 by Yseux sr. de Thierry-Simier (stamp-signed on verso of front free-endpaper) in three quarter crushed maroon morocco over dark red boards ruled in blind, smooth spine decoratively ruled and lettered in gilt, marbled endpapers, all edges uncut. Original printed front and back lilac wrappers bound in (minimal expert repairs to edges of wrappers). A superb uncut copy in an attractive binding. A very scarce album - we have only seen this title once before. According to OCLC there are just two copies located in institutions worldwide (Herzogin Anna Amalia Biblithek Klassik, and Kunstbiblio Staatliche Museen Zu Berlin) . The Plates: 1. "Les Sots sont ici bas pour nos menus plaisirs" - (The fools are down here for our pleasures) 2. "Un Futur" - (A future) 3. "Une Education à faire" - (An education..) 4. "Inutilités" - (Utilities) 5. "On ne vous voit plus Milord!." - (We can not see you My Lord!) 6. "La rafraichissemens sont pour les dames" - (The refreshments are for the ladies) 7. "Une demoiselle à produire" - (Introducing a young lady) 8. "Des Mamans de Comédie" - (The mothers of comedy) 9. "Monsieur mon Fils est-il chez lui?.." - (Sir, my son is home) 10. "Le Contentement de sa personne" - (Contented People) Henry Monnier (1799-1877) was a French dramatist, caricaturist and actor. Between 1827 and 1832, he produced several albums of lithographs, representing the customs and features of his contemporaries. "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, Henry Monnier, #115-124; Melcher, p.31 (note). .

David Brass Rare Books (ABAA/ILAB)Professional seller

Book number: 05325

Catalogue: Color-Plate Books

Keywords: Books in French Caricatures French Caricature

MONNIER, Henri

Les Petites Félicités Et Les Petites Misères Humaines

Paris: Delpech, 1829. Henry Monnier's Parody on Thomas Rowlandson's Miseries of Human Life "From Childhood to Old Age" MONNIER, Henry. Les Petites Félicités et Les Petites Misères Humaines. Paris: Delpech, 1829. Oblong quarto (10 x 13 1/8 inches; 253 x 332 mm.). Ten fine and amusing hand colored lithograph plates (all mounted on stubs). Bound ca. 1925 by René Kieffer (with his binders label on verso of front end-paper) in half dark blue straight-grain morocco over marbled boards. Spine decoratively tooled and lettered in gilt, marbled end-papers. Fine. The amusing images cover life in France from L'Enfance to La Vieilesse (from Childhood to Old Age). The plates: Les Petites Félicités 1. L'Enfance. 2. La Jeunesse. 3. L'Age Mur. 4. La Vieillesse. 5. La Chaleur. Les Petites Misères Humaines 1. L'Enfance. 2. La Jeunesse. 3. L'Age Mur. 4. Vieillesses. 5. Le Froid. Exceptionally rare with only one copy in libraries and institutions worldwide: The Gordon N. Ray copy (dated as 1840) at the Morgan Library & Museum (NY, USA). "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). Marie, 427-431 & 432-436; Melcher, p.37. Not mentioned in Gordon Ray. The Art of the French Illustrated Book. Assumedly Gordon Ray must have acquired his copy after his book was published. .

David Brass Rare Books (ABAA/ILAB)Professional seller

Book number: 04492

Catalogue: Color-Plate Books

Keywords: Books in French Caricatures French Caricature

MONNIER, Henri

Six Quartiers de Paris

Paris: Delpech, 1828. Extremely Rare Monnier MONNIER, Henri. Six Quartiers de Paris. Paris: [François Séraphin] Delpech, 1828. A rare suite of six hand colored lithographed plates, (without the hand colored lithographed title) otherwise complete as issued. Oblong quarto. Plate size: 9 x 12 inches (231 x 307 mm). Bound to contemporary style in full dark green morocco. Gilt ruled borders. Gilt panel. Gilt lettering and ornaments to spine. Restoration to lower corner of plate four, otherwise a fine copy. According to the ABPC Index, since 1923 only three copies have come to auction (1938, 1949, 1979). There are only three copies in institutional holdings worldwide. The plates: 1. Le Marais 2. Quartier St. Denis 3. Quartier de la Bourse 4. Chaussée d'Antin 5. Faubourg St. Honoré 6. Le Faubourg St. Germain For reasons unknown, Ray identifies this suite as being by Eugene Lami, despite the plates clearly identified as by Monnier; the only copy to come to auction in the last thirty-five years is also identified Lami as the artist. Melcher, however, correctly identifies the suite as Monnier's, as does Marie (Marie, Aristide. Henri Monnier 1799-1877. Paris, 1931) and Champfleury. Curiously, the only copy in institutional holdings, that in the Morgan Library, belonged to Ray but though the note is under Lami's authorship the Responsibility detail in OCLC/RILN clearly states: "par Monnier." "Between 1825 and 1827 Monnier passed much of his time in London..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" (Ray, p. 199). François Séraphin Delpech was a French lithographer, mainly of portraits and costumes after his contemporaries.  His portrait lithographs are in the collection of Britain's National Portrait Gallery and the Louvre. He also lithographed the work of others, as here. Marie pp. 296-302. Melcher, The Life and Times of Henri Monnier, p. 211. .

David Brass Rare Books (ABAA/ILAB)Professional seller

Book number: 01858

Catalogue: Color-Plate Books

Keywords: Books in French Caricatures French History Nineteenth-Century Literature

MONNIER, Henri; LAMI, Eugene

Six Quartiers de Paris

Paris: Delpech, 1828. Extremely Rare Monnier or Lami? MONNIER, Henri. [LAMI, Eugène ?]. Six Quartiers de Paris. Paris: [François Séraphin] Delpech, 1828. A rare suite of six hand colored lithographed plates, (without the hand colored lithographed title) otherwise complete as issued. Oblong quarto. Plate size: 11 x 14 1/8 inches (279 x 370 mm). Bound to contemporary style in full dark green morocco. Gilt ruled borders. Gilt panel. Gilt lettering and ornaments to spine. Restoration to lower corner of plate four, otherwise a fine copy. According to the ABPC Index, since 1923 only three copies have come to auction (1938, 1949, 1979). There are only three copies in institutional holdings worldwide. The plates: 1. Le Marais 2. Quartier St. Denis 3. Quartier de la Bourse 4. Chaussée d'Antin 5. Faubourg St. Honoré 6. Le Faubourg St. Germain For reasons unknown, Ray identifies this suite as being by Eugene Lami, despite the plates clearly identified as by Monnier; the only copy to come to auction in the last thirty-five years is also identified Lami as the artist. Melcher, however, correctly identifies the suite as Monnier's, as does Marie (Marie, Aristide. Henri Monnier 1799-1877. Paris, 1931) and Champfleury. Curiously, the only copy in institutional holdings, that in the Morgan Library, belonged to Ray but though the note is under Lami's authorship the Responsibility detail in OCLC/RILN clearly states: "par Monnier." "Between 1825 and 1827 Monnier passed much of his time in London..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" (Ray, p. 199). François Séraphin Delpech was a French lithographer, mainly of portraits and costumes after his contemporaries.  His portrait lithographs are in the collection of Britain's National Portrait Gallery and the Louvre. He also lithographed the work of others, as here. Marie pp. 296-302. Melcher, The Life and Times of Henri Monnier, p. 211. .

David Brass Rare Books (ABAA/ILAB)Professional seller

Book number: 01864

Catalogue: Color-Plate Books

Keywords: LAMI, Eugene? Books in French Caricatures French Literature Nineteenth-Century Literature

MONTAUT, Henri de

Vertus & Qualités

Paris: chez Arnauld de Vresse, 1860. Extremely Scarce Children Satirize Good Adult Behavior MONTAUT, Henri de. Vertus & Qualités. Dessins Composés par.. Paris: chez Arnauld de Vresse, n.d. [c. 1860s]. Colored issue. Oblong folio (11/4 x 15 7/8 in; 285 x 403 mm). Twelve hand-colored lithographed plates with interleaves. Each plate is imprinted "chez Aubert," the renowned Parisian printmaking house who also issued the book with plain (tinted) lithographs. Original cloth with blind-stamped arabesque panel enclosing an elaborately gilt centerpiece with title within. A few very light marginal finger-marks, inner hinges expertly strengthened. Excessively scarce, with OCLC recording only one copy in institutional holdings worldwide, at Princeton. The companion volume to Montaut's Defauts et Vices. Charming period plates in the rococo style reminiscent of Boucher (1703-1770) illustrate children in Ancien Regime costume acting out various adult virtues and qualities in behavior and character, i.e. talent, generosity, courtesy, propriety, valor, etc. to beguiling comic effect. Henri de Montaut (1825- c. 1890) was a caricaturist, writer and French illustrator. He was responsible, along with other artists such as Riou and Roux, for illustrations to the novels of Jules Verne. He was a contributor to Journal amusant, Journal pour rire, and La Vie parisienne, and editor-in-chief of Le Journal Illustré. The plates: 1. Humanité - Générosité 2. Etude - Talente 3. Politesse Amabilite 4. Travail - Savoir 5. Dévouement - Générosité 6. Valeur - Courage 7. Adresse - Précision 8. La Propreté 9. Plaison - Philanthropie 10. Bonté - Bienfaisance 11. La Poiété 12. Le Dévouement. .

David Brass Rare Books (ABAA/ILAB)Professional seller

Book number: 02896

Catalogue: Color-Plate Books

Keywords: Books in French French Literature Nineteenth-Century Literature

MORIN, Edmond, illustrator

Bons Parisienes, Ces

Paris: Chez Aubert & Cie. Editeurs, 1842. 'The Parisians at Play' Twenty Superb Hand Colored Lithograph Plates by Edmond Morin MORIN, Edmond, illustrator. [Ces Bons Parisiens]. (These Good Parisians). Paris: Chez Aubert & Cie. Editeurs, [ca. 1842]. Folio (13 3/16 x 9 5/8 inches; 335 x 245 mm.). Twenty highly amusing, hand colored lithograph plates, all heightened with gum arabic. A few plates with light marginal foxing. Publisher's? black paper over boards, covers elaborately stamped in gilt with "1842 Album" in the center. Covers a little worn at joints and corners, some old 'tape' stains on endpapers. An excellent example of a super rare album. This is only the second time in over 50 years that we have ever seen this suite of colored lithographs. According to OCLC there are just two copies located in libraries and institutions worldwide: The Morgan Library & Museum and the New York Public Library (NY, USA). Note: Neither of these copies are recorded as having color plates. The plates - all with the headline "Ces Bons Parisienes!": 1. Est-ce que vous návez pas peur d'être volé, Monsieur, dans un endroit aussi écarte?.. (Are not you afraid of being robbed, sir, in a place so remote?) 2. Chasseur Chassé. Que diable me veulent-elles, ces vilaines bêtes la?.. (Hunted Hunter. What the hell do they want, these ugly beasts?) 3. Sapristi! Quel poisson!! (Damn! What a fish !!) 4. Au voleur! Au voleur!!..arrétez! (Thief! thief! .. stop!) 5. Premiére leçon de chasse (First hunting lesson) 6. Il rêve qu'il s'amuse.. (He dreams he's having fun ..) 7. Ouverture de la chasse dans la plaine St. Denis (Opening of the hunt in the plain St. Denis) 8. Monsieur, voici ma carte! (Sir, here is my card!) 9. Ce qu'on appelle un renfoncement.. (What is called a recess ..) 10. Si je tenais le gueux qui dèvalise mon ètang, il passerait un fichu quart d'heure.. (If I got the beggar who devours my pond, he would spend an awful quarter of an hour ..) 11. Vue prise de la marre d'Auteuil!!! (View taken of the embarrassed student!!!) 12. Le Retour de la Chasse. Accommodez nous ça, avec beaucoup de choux, beaucoup, beaucoup.. (Le cuisinier) oui, ce sera un plat de choux blanc.. (The return of Hunting. Accommodate us, with a lot of cabbage, a lot, a lot .. (The cook) yes, it will be a dish of white cabbage ..) 13. Par où faut-il passer pour aller au.. Allez au diable (Where do I go to go to .. Go to the devil) 14. STATU QUO fort dèsagrèable (STATUS QUO very unpleasant) 15. La Friture manquée tableau en un petít acte. (La scène se passe sur la Seine.) (Missed the frying pan - because of a small mistake. (The scene is on the Seine.) 16. Partie de Campagne. Le dimanche est un jour de plaisir... et de repos (Into the countryside. Sunday is a day of fun ... and rest 17. Chien de Chasse Parisien. Va Cherche, Azor, va chercher! (Parisian hunting dog. Go find it, Azor, go get it!) 18. Pêcheur a repêcheur!.. (The fish has a fisherman!) 19. Une Journée de Plaisir. De St. Cloud à Paris, par terre... et par eau (A day of pleasure. From St. Cloud to Paris, on the ground ... and by water) 20. Une Bonne Farce. Pousse á l'eau, Cadet, pousse! (A good joke. Push in the water, Cadet, push!) Edmond MORIN (1825-1882) "was a French painter, illustrator and engraver of some fame in his day. Wood engravings after his designs appeared in L'Illustration and Le monde illustré, as well as in many books." (Gordon Ray. The Art of the French Illustrated Book 1700-1914, pp. 353-354). Hennri Beraldi. Les Graveurs du XIXe Siècle, volume X, p. 131. Frederik Muller. La Lithographie. Ecoles Francaise Néerlandaose Allemande Anglais & Russe. No. 357. Lucien Monot. Le Prix des Estampes Anciennes et Modernes, volume V, p. 112. .

David Brass Rare Books (ABAA/ILAB)Professional seller

Book number: 04779

Catalogue: Color-Plate Books

Keywords: Books in French Caricatures French Caricature