Les Bohemiens de Paris.
by DAUMIER, Honore
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- Hardcover
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About This Item
1840. DAUMIER, Honore. Les Bohémiens de Paris. With 28 hand-coloured lithographs, heightened with gum arabic, all by Daumier. Folio, 345 x 260 mm., bound in nineteenth-century green half morocco over mottled green marbled boards, spine elaborately gilt, original front printed wrapper [with letterpress title: Album Comique par Daumier] bound in, a.e.g. Paris: Au Bureau de Journal Amusant & du Petit Journal pour Rire, [1840-1842]. Complete set of Daumier's "Les Bohémiens de Paris" series, all beautifully hand-coloured at the time of publication and heightened in gum arabic. All the prints in the present volume are "sur blanc," i.e. printed individually on superior white wove paper, without the text of the Charivari journal on the verso. Because of the finer paper and printing methods, 'sur blanc' impressions are much more prized than those which appeared within the journal itself. Les Bohémiens de Paris figures prominently in Rumas' Daumier: 120 Great Lithographs, which especially reproduces and describes Plate 9 ("A Professional Sponger about to crash a fashionable Wedding Party"), Plate 15 ("A Sick-Nurse, the French equivalent of Dickens' Sairy Gamp"), and Plate 20 ("A Minor Actor in a small theater who plays Wealthy Monarchs though actually starving [here eating French Fries!]). These prints mainly belong to Delteil's 2nd state (of 3); exceptions are Plate 3 (3rd state of 4); Plate 15 (3rd state of 5); Plate 16 (3rd state of 4); and Plate 20 (3rd state of 4). The first state (avant la lettre) are invariably described as "fort rare" and are now unfindable. In excellent condition. Delteil 822-849. BN, Fonds Français (Après 1800) Tom. V, p. 478 (No. 157).
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- Bookseller
- Ursus Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 115688
- Title
- Les Bohemiens de Paris.
- Author
- DAUMIER, Honore
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Date Published
- 1840
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- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- First State
- used in book collecting to refer to a book from the earliest run of a first edition, generally distinguished by a change in some...
- Folio
- A folio usually indicates a large book size of 15" in height or larger when used in the context of a book description. Further,...
- Morocco
- Morocco is a style of leather book binding that is usually made with goatskin, as it is durable and easy to dye. (see also...
- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- Marbled boards
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