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1900réf. 715331900. N.p.: De L'Editrice P.V. c. 1900. N.p.: De L'Editrice P.V. c. 1900. Satirical French Courtroom Image France. L'Incidente. N.p.: De L'Editrice P.V. c.1900-10. Attractively glazed and matted 13" x 8-1/2" colored lithograph in handsome 21-1/4" x 16-3/4" wooden frame small brass plaque to center of bottom. Light toning to margins vivid image. $650. A rather grotesque and rather funny image of a trial in a French court. unknown books
1923réf. 48601Chicago: Proletarian Party of America 1923. First Edition. Quarto 29.5cm; illustrated wrappers stapled; 16pp. Mild wear and dust-soil to wrapper extremities else a well-preserved Near Fine copy. Official organ of the Proletarian Party of America a left-wing splinter group which like the Communists broke from the Socialist Party in 1919. Due to doctrinal differences with the founders the PP split early on with the American Communist Party remaining a small distinct and contrarian entity until its eventual dissolution in 1971. The Proletarian was edited by long-time party leader John Keracher who also assumed editorial control of the Chicago publishing firm of Charles H. Kerr following Kerr's retirement in 1928. All but the earliest issue in this run feature full-page cover illustrations by cartoonist Milton Breitmayer signed "Breit" a highly talented and under-recognized caricaturist in the Art Young / Robert Minor mold. GOLDWATER 215. Proletarian Party of America unknown books
1921réf. 48599Detroit: Proletarian Party of America 1921. First Edition. Quarto 27.25cm; illustrated wrappers stapled; 16pp. Light wear to extremities mild dust-soil to wrappers else Very Good or better. Official organ of the Proletarian Party of America a left-wing splinter group which like the Communists broke from the Socialist Party in 1919. Due to doctrinal differences with the founders the PP split early on with the American Communist Party remaining a small distinct and contrarian entity until its eventual dissolution in 1971. The Proletarian was edited by long-time party leader John Keracher who also assumed editorial control of the Chicago publishing firm of Charles H. Kerr following Kerr's retirement in 1928. All but the earliest issue in this run feature full-page cover illustrations by cartoonist Milton Breitmayer signed "Breit" a highly talented and under-recognized caricaturist in the Art Young / Robert Minor mold. GOLDWATER 215. Proletarian Party of America unknown books
1921réf. 48600Detroit: Proletarian Party of America 1921. First Edition. Quarto 30.5cm; illustrated wrappers stapled; 16pp. Modest wear and dust-soil to wrappers with slight curling to upper right corners and a few small stains to upper left corner; Very Good. Official organ of the Proletarian Party of America a left-wing splinter group which like the Communists broke from the Socialist Party in 1919. Due to doctrinal differences with the founders the PP split early on with the American Communist Party remaining a small distinct and contrarian entity until its eventual dissolution in 1971. The Proletarian was edited by long-time party leader John Keracher who also assumed editorial control of the Chicago publishing firm of Charles H. Kerr following Kerr's retirement in 1928. All but the earliest issue in this run feature full-page cover illustrations by cartoonist Milton Breitmayer signed "Breit" a highly talented and under-recognized caricaturist in the Art Young / Robert Minor mold. GOLDWATER 215. Proletarian Party of America unknown books
1919réf. 48598Detroit: Proletarian Party of America 1919. First Edition. Quarto 30.25cm; illustrated wrappers stapled; 16pp. Light wear to extremities mild dust-soil to wrappers with a few tiny tears and a small stain to lower left corner of rear wrapper; Very Good. Official organ of the Proletarian Party of America a left-wing splinter group which like the Communists broke from the Socialist Party in 1919. Due to doctrinal differences with the founders the PP split early on with the American Communist Party remaining a small distinct and contrarian entity until its eventual dissolution in 1971. The Proletarian was edited by long-time party leader John Keracher who also assumed editorial control of the Chicago publishing firm of Charles H. Kerr following Kerr's retirement in 1928. All but the earliest issue in this run feature full-page cover illustrations by cartoonist Milton Breitmayer signed "Breit" a highly talented and under-recognized caricaturist in the Art Young / Robert Minor mold. GOLDWATER 215. Proletarian Party of America unknown books
1978réf. 15815Providence RI: Cultural Correspondence / Dorrwar Bookstore 1978. First Edition. Quarto 28cm. Stapled illustrated paper wrapers; 79pp. Mild dusting to cover; Very Good. Interviews and illustrations with and by Danny Czitrom Bill Griffith Jay Kinney Justin Green and R. Crumb. Also articles by Paul Berman C. Leinenweber Mary Bufwack on women in country music etc. Cultural Correspondence / Dorrwar Bookstore unknown books
1874réf. 108146Vanity Fair: March 14 1874 and February 1 1879. Four leaves 10 1/4 x 15” two color lithograph portraits and three pages of text. Plates are bright with some creases and minor chips to edges pages with text are chipped and stained with old pieces of tape still affixed; good pair. § Portrait of French composer Charles-François Gounod and English composer Arthur Sullivan; with corresponding pages of text. From “Men of the Day” no. 81 and 192. The portrait of Arthur Sullivan is drawn by Ape Charles-François Gounod is drawn by “T.” March 14 unknown books
réf. 23500No Place: Privately Printed No Date. First edition. Loose Sheets. Very Good. Sold here together are ten wonderful hand-drawn caricatures and cartoons by Vincent Zito. They all were created at someplace called The Surf Club possibly in Florida. Each one is on stiff board measuring 7 3/4" wide x 9 3/4" tall. All but one of them is SIGNED "Zito" All in very good condition. A few are a bit smudged. Zito 1900-1966 was a well-known caricaturist who worked throughout Europe and in Palm Beach Florida. Photos available upon request. Privately Printed unknown books
1906réf. 253099Portland Or: E.A. Thomson 1906. Almost all pages containing a full-page caricature of a particular person. 302pp. 1 vols. 4to. Original leatherette gilt. Binding a bit rubbed especially along the spine and the edges. Very clean internally. Very good overall. Green folding cloth case gilt leather label. Almost all pages containing a full-page caricature of a particular person. 302pp. 1 vols. 4to. A marvelous collection of caricatures of turn of the century California notables mostly politicians lawyers bankers businessmen and railroad magnates. Most are San Franciscans but others pictured are from Los Angeles Oakland Sacramento and Stockton. The illustrations were done by twenty-two different artists. A great collection of portraits of men once famed now diminished in memory. Cowan p.101 E.A. Thomson unknown books
1812réf. 24583London: Printed for Thomas Tegg 1812. Second edition. Amusing handcolored frontispiece caricature"Rump Steaks" by William Edgerton. 360 3 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Half red morocco. Some darkening and rubbing of binding offsetting from frontispiece else a very good copy with some light spotting. Second edition. Amusing handcolored frontispiece caricature"Rump Steaks" by William Edgerton. 360 3 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Printed for Thomas Tegg unknown books
1906réf. 30071Vienne: C. W. Stern editeur 1906. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 4to. 259 pp. Text in French. Illustrated with 223 incisions et 33 planches hors texte. Beautifully rebound. Green cloth over forest green leather spine with leather corners. Two pages of plates are damaged with pieces torn out of those pages else a very good copy. Sold in as-is condition. A somewhat large and heavy volume. C. W. Stern, editeur hardcover books
1800réf. WRCLIT82908Norwich CT: George W. Kies Dealer in all kinds of Boots and Shoes and Rubbers 1800. Printed illustrated handbill 142 x 217 mm printed recto and verso on thin paper stock resulting in ghosting from recto to verso and reverse. Fine. An advertising handbill for the Kies shoe shop highlighting their Cable Screw Wire Shoes. One side of the handbill includes an 11 x 6 cm. pictorial inset of a brutally caricatured African American field worker and an emaciated mule rigged to a setup that attempts to pull apart a shoe about the size of the mule captioned "I'se bound to rip dat Cable Screw Wire or bust a flue un dat thousand dollar muel." The verso is taken up with an image of a cart and driver drawn by two horses hauling a vastly oversize boot. George W. Kies, Dealer in all kinds of Boots and Shoes, and Rubbers unknown books
1926réf. 15758London: Faber and Gwyer 1926. First edition. Cloth. Very Good. 4to. 127 numbered pp followed by XX full-page plates. Illustrated in black and white with tissue guards present. This is number 40 of only 106 special copies printed on English hand-made paper and SIGNED by the author. A very good copy in green cloth binding sunned at spine. Clean and well bound volume. Faber and Gwyer hardcover books
1904réf. 028082Athens 1904. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. Fair. 9 3/4" X 7" Oblong. Blue Gray Covers Printed In Black With Title Within Art Nouveau Border Contents Consists Entirely Of Captioned Plates With Caricatures Of Persons In Athens. No Text Other Than Captions In Plates Some Of Which Are Signed Westerman. Covers Worn Spine Chipped And Torn. Worldcat Locates 7 Institutional Holdings. paperback
réf. 5L2187Verschiedene Verlage und Orte 1908/1909. Insgesamt ca. 410 illustrierte Seiten je mit farbigem Titel im Jugendstil Halbleinen-Einband mit goldgeprägtem Rückentitel quart etwas berieben und fleckig/Seiten gebräunt. - sonst gute Erhaltung / bon exemplaire / Enthalten: Le Frou-Frou Das Rauschen. 8 Hefte: No. 392 vom 18. 4. 1908 No. 393 vom 25. 4. 1908 No. 394 vom 2. 5. 1908 No. 395 vom 9. 5. 1908 No. 432 vom 23. 1. 1909 No. 424 vom 28. 11. 1908 No. ohne Titelblatt und No. Titel eng beschnitten. Zeichner: Carlo Abeille Spahn Bertrand Heidbrinck Caran d'Arche Guydo u.a. mit Literatur- und Anzeigenteil / L'Amour Die Liebe. 9 Hefte: No. 308 vom 15. 3. 1908 No. 310 vom 29. 3. 1908 No. 313 vom 19. 4. 1908 No. 315 vom 3. 5. 1908 No. 345 vom 29. 11. 1908 No. 347 vom 13. 12. 1908 No. 349 vom 27. 12. 1908 No. 350 vom 3. 1. 1908 und No. 359 vom 7. 3. 1909. Zeichner: Carlo Abeille Spahn Bertrand Heidbrinck Caran d'Arche Guydo u.a. mit Literatur- und Anzeigenteil / Le cri de Paris Der Ruf von Paris. 3 Hefte vom 24. 5. 1908 8. 11. 1908 und 15. 11. 1908. Titel farbig von Roubill 2 und Nandin. Der Schwerpunkt liegt im Text mit eingestreuten Vignetten Titel vom 24. 5. 1908 Karikatur zum Eulenburg-Prozeß / Text französisch - unknown
réf. 03524: 1840. A Unique and Complete Album of 121 Grotesque Watercolors An Extraordinary Satirical Cycle Concluding with "Finis" CARICATURE. Grotesque Sketches by Uncle Walpole. Taken down from the walls of his late dwelling The Hermitage. 1840. Veluti in Speculum As in a mirror. England ca. 1840-1847. Large folio 21 1/8 x 13 inches; 536 x 330 mm. Title and eighty-seven leaves of which thirty-four carry colored images on both recto and verso comprising in total 121 original watercolor caricatures. Album worn and defective; spine perished covers detached gatherings exposed; plates generally good but a few with marginal tears occasional stains creasing to lower blank corners and title-page worn and torn at margins. A unique complete and unpublished satirical album conceived from the outset as a self-contained cycle of grotesque invention and brought to a formal close with a final sheet boldly inscribed "Finis." The suite encompasses an extraordinary range of imagery - from miniature comic vignettes to fully realized grotesque tableaux - all executed with wit invention and a distinctively theatrical presence. The subjects are social caricature grotesque physiognomy phrenological satire anthropomorphic beasts drinking and domestic quarrels hybrid demons and burlesque "scientific" scenes. The title-leaf and fifty-four watercolors are painted directly on single sheets; many of the earlier examples are cut to shape and mounted some on both recto and verso of the same support while the later sequence plates 40-121 consists largely of full single-sheet compositions. This mixture lends the album a dynamic collage-like quality while also underscoring the compiler's intention to preserve the entirety as a coherent anthology. Technically accomplished and often striking in palette - washes occasionally heightened with gum arabic - the drawings show affinities with the satirical traditions of Rowlandson Woodward Gillray and Cruikshank and with the anthropomorphic grotesqueries of Grandville though always refracted through a more private eccentric and at times fantastical imagination. Rich in humor fantasy and biting caricature this album is a rare survival of early nineteenth-century satirical art outside the published print trade. Its scale completeness and the emphatic "Finis" at its conclusion mark it as a deliberately conceived satirical masterpiece - a testament to the vigor of the grotesque tradition at the threshold of the Victorian age. Several sheets introduce demons grotesques and animals behaving as humans e.g. a devil playing drums a fantasy orchestra of beasts hybrid figures on pedestals. This echoes the satirical tradition of Grandville's later anthropomorphic works though here much earlier aligning stylistically with ca. 1780-1820 English caricature practice. The repeated presence of figures handling skulls and engaged in speculative discussion suggests parody of early phrenological study which began circulating in Britain in the late 18th century and became a fashionable topic by the 1810s-20s. The grotesque tradition in British and Continental art stretches from the Renaissance to the caricatures of Hogarth and his successors but works of this scope and completeness in watercolor are exceptionally rare. This series appears to have been conceived as a private album not intended for publication though it shares affinities with satirical caricature suites circulating in London and Paris during the 1820s-1840s. The careful numbering of plates and the emphatic "Finis" suggest a deliberate almost book-like conception - a private "volume" of grotesques. Such albums are seldom encountered in so complete and internally consistent a state. To our knowledge no other record of this album exists in bibliographies institutional catalogs or auction histories. Its playful title-page ascribes authorship to "Uncle Walpole" tying it suggestively if perhaps jokingly to the Walpolean tradition of grotesque collecting and satire. A unique and complete visual manuscript comprising title and 121 grotesque watercolors forming a finished cycle of satirical invention. With its mixture of mounted cut-outs recto/verso compositions and full-sheet watercolors culminating in the artist's explicit conclusion this album stands as a rare survival of private grotesque satire worthy of institutional acquisition or inclusion in a major private collection of caricature and illustration. List of Watercolors: Title: Illustrated title-leaf with grotesque framing figures inscribed as above. Plates 1-10 earlier sequence many cut to shape and mounted Grotesque heads in profile exaggerated physiognomy. Rustic figure with staff flanked by grotesques. Demon tormenting a sleeping man nightmare scene. Donkey-headed musician playing drum. Two grotesque clowns quarreling. Group of hybrid birds with human bodies. Drinker with long pipe tavern scene. Monk with devil whispering at shoulder. Grotesque family group caricature of domestic life. Bird-headed figure addressing a crowd. Plates 11-20 Carnival mask and puppet-show figures. Hybrid demon playing fiddle. Physiognomic caricature of a scholar with spectacles. Group of women in quarrel grotesquely exaggerated. Pair of grotesque dancers. Satirical quack-doctor examining a bottle. Animal-headed musicians in concert. Devil prodding a cleric with a fork. Group at table with grotesque expressions. Bird-headed lovers conversing. Plates 21-30 Figure with skull parody of phrenological study. Group of grotesques carrying banners. Drinking bout rustic grotesques with tankards. Masked devil leaping in theatrical pose. Bird-headed man astride a grotesque beast. Pair of grotesques playing cards. Domestic quarrel - man and woman gesturing wildly. Procession of hybrid figures. Clownish grotesque with exaggerated smile. Orchestra of animals parody of concert performance. Plates 31-40 Grotesque portrait head with massive nose. Rustic couple grotesquely caricatured. Scholar with long beard peering into book. Donkey-headed fiddler. Hybrid grotesques climbing a pedestal. Allegorical grotesque with staff and orb. Phrenological satire: man measuring another's skull. Caricatured monk with grotesque features. Pair of grotesques at a tavern bench. Mounted composition: several grotesque vignettes. Plates 41-60 largely full-sheet watercolors Jack Sheppard's gravestone literary reference. Two grotesques in heated debate. Hybrid animal figure with exaggerated tail. Devil drumming grotesque band scene. Rustic grotesque in long coat comic profile. Procession of grotesques with banner. Family group at table distorted expressions. Pair of grotesque dancers in theatrical setting. Phrenological scene figures handling skulls. Bird-headed man reading from a lectern. Grotesque doctor and patient. Large grotesque portrait bust. Drinking scene with grotesque peasants. Animal-headed grotesques in conversation. Devil and monk contending over a book. Carnival procession of grotesques. Rustic grotesque with exaggerated hat. Pair of grotesques embracing. Hybrid demon climbing. Orchestra of beasts parody of philharmonic. Plates 61-90 Group of grotesques at long table. Bird-headed grotesque holding staff. Scholar with open book distorted face. Quack apothecary with vials. Hybrid grotesque fiddler. Caricature of rustic couple in quarrel. Devil whispering into scholar's ear. Grotesque portrait of corpulent man. Drinking and smoking scene. Hybrid grotesques riding beasts. Procession of grotesques in carnival. Man holding skull phrenological parody. Group of grotesque musicians. Donkey-headed man with pipe. Comic rustic grotesque in profile. Pair of grotesques dancing. Scholar with exaggerated spectacles. Demon tormenting a sleeper. Bird-headed grotesque at pulpit. Hybrid grotesques cavorting. Domestic quarrel scene. Large grotesque head. Family at supper grotesquely caricatured. Hybrid grotesque with banner. Carnival parade with demons. Drinking grotesques in tavern. Hybrid grotesques playing instruments. Rustic grotesque in hat. Quarrelling grotesques in dialogue. Caricature of doctor bleeding a patient. Plates 91-121 final sequence Large grotesque head with absurdly long nose. Group of grotesque musicians. Hybrid grotesque preacher. Procession of grotesques in mask-like profiles. Pair of grotesque dancers. Animal-headed grotesques in quarrel. Phrenological parody with skulls. Rustic grotesques at tavern. Demon whispering into man's ear. Grotesque fiddler. Carnival scene with grotesques. Bird-headed grotesque with banner. Hybrid grotesques wrestling. Pair of grotesques in comic pose. Large grotesque portrait. Donkey-headed grotesque. Phrenological scene with book and skull. Drinking grotesques with tankards. Family group caricature. Hybrid grotesque on pedestal. Group of grotesque musicians. Domestic quarrel. Demon tormenting grotesque. Bird-headed grotesque. Hybrid grotesques in procession. Doctor with grotesque patient. Large grotesque bust. Carnival grotesques. Rustic grotesque with pipe. Two grotesques in confrontation. Final plate: two grotesque figures with inscription "Finis" below. : , 1840 unknown
réf. 05941Paris: Chez Aubert 1830-1832. The Journal That Initiated the Golden Age of French Caricature LA CARICATURE. PHILIPON Charles founder publisher editor. La Caricature. Morale Religieuse Littéraire et Scénique. Nos. 1 - 86 first three volumes of ten. Paris: Chez Aubert Nov 4 1830 - April 18 1833. Three large quarto volumes 13 1/2 x 10 1/8 in; 342 x 257 mm. Containing the first five volumes 128 of 129 issues bound without issue 129 each with four pages of text and lithographed plates numbered 1-18 19-163 166-266 plus four unnumbered or bis plates 121 153 181a & 181b. A total of 267 of 528 plates some of which are double-page folding including eighty-eight hand-colored and four with movable flaps/panels. Almost all issues bearing the Timbre Royal Seine 5 centime tax stamp to upper or lower right corner of front page. Including the four bis or unnumbered plates. Also this set has been bound as is quite common without plate 19 Un Ami du peuple par H. Monnier. "It is missing in the La Bedoyère copy as in most copies." Vicaire II p. 52. Handsomely bound by Thivet ca. 1880 in three-quarter red morocco over marbled boards ruled in gilt. Spines with five raised bands elaborately decorated and lettered in gilt in compartments marbled endpapers. Some plates with light to moderate foxing. A couple with foxed spots generally to margins and not intruding upon image. While some of the wrappers/text have toned as expected but are not brittle others - miraculously - remain as fresh as the day they were printed. An excellent run of the first five volumes. Edited by Philipon in the few years that censorship was relaxed La Caricature is the most evocative revue of the Romantic period taking an important role in the fight of the liberals against Louis-Philippe and his ministers. Although a courageous editor Philipon with the literary help of Desnoyers Hugo and Balzac was not a great artist and needed the inspiration of Daumier and Grandville to bring alive his satirical magazine. Issued over only five years La Caricature is the most famous of all nineteenth century satirical magazines. The major contributors were Daumier and Grandville but there are contributions by Monnier Lami Descamps Raffet Gavarni Deveria Bouquet Traviès Desperet Forest Roubaud and others. Ray The Art of the French Illustrated Book 160. Vicaire II cols. 46-81. Paris: Chez Aubert, 1830-1832 unknown
1900réf. 715331900. N.p.: De L'Editrice P.V. c. 1900. N.p.: De L'Editrice P.V. c. 1900. A Fist Bump - Satirical French Courtroom Image France. L'Incidente. N.p.: De L'Editrice P.V. c.1900-1910. Attractively glazed and matted 13" x 8-1/2" colored lithograph in handsome 21-1/4" x 16-3/4" wooden frame small brass plaque to center of bottom. Light toning to margins vivid image. $500. A delightfully humorous and wonderfully detailed satire of a French legal proceeding. The composition brilliantly captures the theatricality of the early 20th-century courtroom complete with expressive caricatures of the magistrates lawyers and defendants. A striking ready-to-hang piece perfectly suited for a law office library or collection of satirical art. unknown
1911réf. 63734New York: Kenny Publishing 1911. First Edition. First printing. Inscribed by Edward Le Roy Rice on front endpaper: "To my very dear friend Arthur Moreland with the author's best wishes" signed datemarked New York City May 6 1911. Quarto. Blue cloth-covered boards with photographic pictorial insets; decorative titling in gilt; 1436618pp; illus. Slight external rubbing; internally clean tight and unmarked with mild toning to text; a sound Very Good or better copy. An indispensable biographical reference to minstrel performers of the 19th and early 20th centuries. Rice 1871-1938 himself the son of a noted blackface performer became not only a performing minstrel but also a producer impresario and noted scholar of the history of minstrelsy. He published no fewer than four books on the subject and the current work remains the only comprehensive contemporary biographical encyclopedia of the minstrel stage including many lesser-known performers whose names have by now been all but lost to history. This copy is inscribed to one such performer Arthur Moreland a successful dramatic actor who made the shift to minstrelsy in the mid-1870s and of whom Rice states: ".he has long been recognized as the premier interlocutor a stock character in blackface shows serving the role of Master of Ceremonies and straight man in minstrelsy and the legitimate successor of Wm. H. Bernard who retired in 1872." Quite a nice copy of a book which while never especially uncommon is seldom encountered in nice condition. We have seen very few signed or inscribed examples. NOTE: This volume includes hundreds of photographic portraits of its subjects many of which can only be described as deeply offensive. Indeed there is no escaping the offensiveness of blackface performance. Yet despite the supremacist and subjugational roots of minstrelsy its lasting impact on American literary theatrical and musical culture is also undeniable. As the most popular form of stage entertainment in America from roughly the 1870s to the 1920s minstrelsy unquestionably shaped and reflected American middle-brow attitudes towards race but it also served as a gateway to legitimate African-American musical and dramatic expression as well as establishing many of the conventions for vaudeville and by extension modern comedic performance. At Lorne Bair Rare Books we generally don't handle intentionally discriminatory or racist materials unless we feel they offer legitimate avenues for research. It is clear to us that the current work given its historical scope and reference value falls into this category. Kenny Publishing unknown
réf. BN372138L'intégrale des caricatures- Rodolphe Topffer Board book Jan 01 2000 L'intégrale des caricatures- Rodolphe Topffer Board book Jan 01 2000 L'intégrale des caricatures- Rodolphe Topffer Board book Jan 01 2000 unknown
réf. BN369661Napoleon vu a travers la caricature Nzz Payot Hardcover Napoleon vu a travers la caricature Nzz Payot Hardcover Napoleon vu a travers la caricature Nzz Payot Hardcover hardcover
réf. 15837Nibelungen Verlag Berlin 1943. In/4 à litalienne reliure demi-toile titre sur une étiquette contrecollée sur le plat supérieur. Deux petites taches claires en plat supérieur sinon très bon état. 48 planches en noir. Caricature politique anti-britanique par les allemands durant la seconde guerre mondiale. unknown
réf. 72228Paris Louis Janet ca. 1825. Oblong 8vo 19.0 x 12.3 cm. iv 146 i pp.; title page with large engraved and finely hand-coloured vignette 12 finely engraved tissue-guarded plates with contemporary hand-colouring. Contemporary quarter polished calf over marbled boards. Spine with gilt bands and title and blind tooled vignettes. = A wonderfully preserved copy of a very rare delightfully illustrated satire on human behaviour humorously compared with the behaviour of monkeys. The author is unknown and given the satire hidden behind the jolly illustrations perhaps wisely remained anonymous. However it seems reasonable to assume that the publisher Pierre Claude Louis Janet 1788-1840 was the author as he was known as a writer in particular of works published by himself. Former owner's name pencilled in an old hand on the front free endpaper recto. Some mostly light rubbing to the boards occasional light marginal thumbing a few small smudges but generally very clean. The colouring is bright careful and detailed. Only one auction record most probably of a plain copy - in 1907. OCLC reports only six copies of which only one in France Bibliothèque nationale one in Spain and four in American libraries - the one in the Morgan Library & Museum being incomplete and none reported to be more than partly hand-coloured. Not in any major bibliography we could find. hardcover
1835réf. 20141AB1835. 17th off 19th parts in 9 Volumes. London Tilt 1835-1841 Tilt and Bogue 1842-1843 Bogue 1844-1853. 1835 - 1853. 165 : 11 cm. With 3 off 5 2 handcoloured many-folded frontispiece and 172 off 195 etched platges by George Cruikshank wood-engraved text illustrations. Full brown polished calf on five raised bands spine decorativly richly gilt ornamented two back labels gilt ruled board edges inside dentelles marbeld end-papers signed Rivierre & Son. First edition of an almost complete set in a stunning signed binding. - George Cruikshank's Comic Almanack was the most important of a number of comic almanacks of the late Regency period which parodied and subverted the popular almanack genre to poke fun at their educational aspirations and at society at large. The almanac is illustrated throughout with caricatures by Cruikshank with his usual satirical flair and comic wit on full display. - Without volume 1850/1851 volume 1848/49 as often smaller all uniformely bound in same sicze. - Besides the missing volume still a desireable set in a beautiful binding in almost perfect condition. - MORAL: Wile we venerate what is deserving of veneration let us not forgetm that quacjery knavery bigotry and superstition always merit exposure and castigation. hardcover
1870réf. 251BB1870. Paris Leon 1870 50 : 335 cm Lithographie originale colorée. "Les Élus De Paris". Illustration satirique d'un artiste inconnu avec des caricatures d'hommes politiques français. Lithographie France 1870-1871. unknown
