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Folies Gauloises Les

réf. 06698Paris: Au Bureau du Journal Amusant 1859. Gustave Dorés Amusing Attack on the 'Excesses' in French History DORÉ Gustave. Les Folies Gauloises Depuis les Romains Jusqu'a nos Jours. Album de Moeurs et de Costumes par Gustave Doré. Paris: Au Bureau du Journal Amusant 1859. First edition. Oblong folio 10 7/8 x 14 1/8 inches; 277 x 359 mm. Twenty fine numbered lithographed plates by Gustave Doré printed by Vayron. Later quarter red cloth over marbled boards spine lettered in gilt. Some light wear to corners. Varying degrees of foxing throughout most noticeable on plates nos. 4 5 16 17 & 18. Still a very good example of this rather scarce Doré album. "This dazzling survey of French manners and costume through the ages was the last of Doré's albums. It is marked by a solidity of conception and a sophistication of outlook to which he hardly aspired in his earlier collections of lithographs. His measured satire of the sedate Romanticism of Lamartine no. 20 should be compared with Thomas' broad burlesque of Delacroix's Faust in Le rêve 144. Though Beraldi places Les folies gauloises in 1852 remarking that its earlier plates anticipate Les contes drolatiques in their presentation of the Middle Ages it did not appear until 1859 Ray 245; Leblanc p. 115. La Menagerie Parisienne; Les Differents Publics de Paris; and Les Folies Gauloises: These three oblong lithographic albums all contain full-page satirical cartoons with Doré captions. They are Doré's book editions by Philipon/Aubert Doré did contribute heavily to one or more of their magazines Musee Francais-Anglais. They are all about the same size in the 10 ½ x 13 ½ range. All are undated but Menagerie and Publics are almost certainly 1854 while the date of Folies continues to be debated but it was probably 1859. The evidence in favor of the early Folies date was that Doré's art style had changed considerably by 1859 but there is one other possibility - Doré may have drawn the illustrations in 1854 but for some unknown reason they might not have been published until 1859. The name of the publishing company headed by Philipon/Aubert was in a state of flux in the 1850s which these albums reflect. Menagerie was published by the Bureau du Journal pour Rire while Publics and Folies were published by the Bureau du Journal Amusant. All three of these lithographic albums are very rare. Most copies were long ago taken apart to sell the lithographs individually. But Les Folies Gauloises literally "Gallic Follies" is a much stronger attack on the excesses in French history. Like Publics it also contains 20 lithographs. Amusingly enough the English edition of Folies actually claims that the illustrations are of British history adding a new full page of text by Thomas Wright to accompany each illustration. The quality of the English edition is not that great but it is the only edition you have a realistic chance of acquiring without paying a fortune. Malan p. 35. Each of the twenty lithographs represent a particular period in French history beginning with the barbarian hordes Gauls observing a human sacrifice then proceeding to a thirteenth-century Inquisition a fifteenth-century tournament a festival during the reign of Henri III the premiere performance of a 1695 drama by Racine the "edifices" of fashionable women's wigs in the court of Louis XVI a harp recital in 1810 and finally ending with the Romanticism of 1830 and 1840. These fine lithographs typify Doré's vivid and witty imagination. Ray Art of the French Illustrated Book 245; Beraldi VI p. 29; Malan Gustave Doré p. 35; Renonciat La Vie et l'Oeuvre de Gustave Doré p. 46-47; Leblanc p. 115. Paris: Au Bureau du Journal Amusant, 1859 unknown books

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La Ménagerie Parisienne

réf. 06358Paris: Au Bureau du Journal Pour Rire 1854. From Lions to Sewer Rats: Doré's Merciless Pencil Spares No Class of Parisian Society" DORÉ Gustave. La Ménagerie Parisienne. Paris: Au Bureau du Journal Pour Rire n.d. 1854. First proof printing of this remarkable and extremely rare album comprising 24 original lithographs by Veyron after Gustave Doré. The work was advertised in the Bibliographie de la France on 28 October 1854 no. 3826. Oblong folio 10 1/4 x 13 1/2 inches; 259 x 343 mm. Original publisher's green paper wrappers title stamped in gilt. A minute chip to the lower edge of the front wrapper approximately 5/8 x 3/8 inch otherwise a superb fresh copy preserved in the publisher's original glassine and entirely free of foxing. Housed in a quarter red morocco chemise gilt-lettered over marbled boards within a matching red leather-edged slipcase. An exceptionally fine and unrecorded example printed on papier vélin fort. Not listed by standard bibliographers the leaves are 5/8 inch wider than usual examples. This suite appears never to have been commercially marketed. It was issued without a printed title-page the title instead stamped in gold on the green wrappers. In La Ménagerie Parisienne Doré delivers a scathing and brilliantly observed satire of Parisian society. Social types are transformed into a kind of urban "fauna" each class assigned an animal identity that mirrors its dress posture and moral character - yet without ever sacrificing humanity. Aristocrats of the Faubourg Saint-Germain appear as "lions" and "lionesses" adopting a term already current in 18th-century England while the social scale descends inexorably to the "rats" of the Parisian sewers. Doré's vision is unsparing and no stratum of urban life escapes his scrutiny. Michèle Lavallée Gustave Doré 1832-1883 p. 287. Produced during Doré's youth this album reveals the formative synthesis of his influences. While the titles and captions recall Grandville whose work deeply marked Doré's early career the drawings themselves resonate strongly with the graphic force and social acuity of Daumier. Among the most celebrated plates is the riotous assembly of washerwomen a scene that would become emblematic of Doré's early satirical power. Doré first visited Paris in 1847 with his parents and soon showed his drawings to Charles Philipon who immediately recognized his talent and engaged him for the Journal Pour Rire. Although Doré's earliest lithographic albums - beginning with Les Travaux d'Hercule published when he was just fifteen - are today among his most engaging works they remain conspicuously under-represented even in advanced collections due to their extreme scarcity. As Gordon Ray observed albums such as Les Différents publics de Paris Les Folies gauloises Les Agréments d'un voyage de désagrément 1851 and La Ménagerie Parisienne 1854 reveal Doré at his most inventive and humorous combining youthful exuberance with a remarkably sophisticated social vision. Gordon Ray. The Art of the Illustrated Book in France 1700-1914 p. 327. A rare and important early Doré album virtually unobtainable in this condition and state. The plates: 1. Lions 2. Petits Lions Lions adultes 3. Lionnes 4. Lionnes Sortie de la messe d'1 heure 5. Lionnes et leurs petits 6. Paons 7. Rats d'opéra 8. Rats d'égout 9. Rats peintres alias rapins 10. Rats de Jardin 11. Loups 12. Loups cerviers 13. Vautours 14. Les dindons et les oies 15. Serpents 16. Pies 17. Crapauds 18. Coq de barriere 19. Tigre / Serin 20. Pantheres 21. Chouettes 22. Vielles Pantheres 23. Buses 24. Oiseau de proie / Merlan. Paris: Au Bureau du Journal Pour Rire, [1854] unknown books

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Les Différents Publics de Paris

réf. 03768Paris: Au Bureau du Journal Amusant 1854. A Superb Copy Of One of the Master's Earliest Successes DORÉ Gustave. Les Différents Publics de Paris. Paris: Au Bureau du Journal Amusant 1854. First edition. Oblong quarto 10 x 13 1/4 in; 254 x 335 mm. Lithograph title and twenty original lithograph plates. Publisher's lithographed green boards small piece 1 1/8 inch missing from top of spine. Ink signature on front free end-paper. Some light foxing heavier on preliminary leaves. A superb copy of the second 'collection' from the most popular and successful French book illustrator of the mid 19th century. "These twenty lithographs are studies of massed humanity ranging from the audiences at the great Parisian theatres to the crowds at a wrestling match or a Punch and Judy show. Without exception they are striking in conception and fertile in detail. To compare Doré's version of the reader's room at the library no. 14 and amongst Doré's celebrated with Daumier's in Les bas bleus is to ask one's self what word is left for the first if the second is called a caricature. Yet each of Doré's scenes is based on close observation and the album provides valuable testimony to the manners of the day" Ray. One of Doré's earliest efforts with which he made his debut at age twenty-two Les Différents Publics de Paris "scored an easy success.brilliant.masterly lithographed skits on Paris" Gosling p. 16 38. An important volume and a cornerstone to any collection of Doré. Beraldi Vl 30. Leblanc 90. Rahir 404. Ray 241. List of Plates: 1. Opéra Italien. 2. Comédie Francaise. 3. Opéra la fosse aux lions. 4. Jardin Des Plantes. 5. Odéon. 6. Folies Nouvelles. 7. Seraphin. 8. Funambules. 9. Soirées Fantastiques de Robert Houdin 10. Le Theatre Guignol. 11. Cirque et Hippodrome. 12. Les Lutteurs. 13. Les Abonnés Au Canon Du Palais Royal. 14. La Bibliotheque Salle de travail. 15. Les Joueurs De Boules. 16. Amphithéatre De L'Ecole De Médecine. 17. Cours D' Anatomie Comparée Au Jardin Des Plantes. 18. La Coulisse De La Bourse. 19. Justice De Paix Du 12me. Arrondissement. 20. Les Revues. Paris: Au Bureau du Journal Amusant, [1854] unknown books

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