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London: David Bogue, 1849. "The illustrations designed and drawn on wood by Gavarni, and engraved by Henry Vizetelly". Contains extra pictorial illuminated portrait title page plus 23 other tissue-protected illustrations, each at the head of a chapte except for the frontispiece. With armorial bookplate of William L. Scott to front pastedown along with smaller bookplate from the Virginia Warren Collection of Old London Street Cries. Very Good, bound in contemporay half calf over marbled boards, back with five raised bands, black leather label with gilt lettering, marbled end pages, boards a bit rubbed at edges, small chip to board rear cover. Subjects illustrated include Acrobats, Thieves, The Barmaid, The Opera, The Casino, and The Orange-Girl. The illustrations and interior quite clean and lovely, a handsome copy. . First Edition. Half Calf Over Marbled Boards. Very Good/No Jacket, As Issued. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.
Book-plate of Edmund and Jules de Goncourt by Gavarni, [pseud. of Sulpice Guillaume Chevalier] - 1862
by Gavarni, [pseud. of Sulpice Guillaume Chevalier]
Book-plate of Edmund and Jules de Goncourt
by Gavarni, [pseud. of Sulpice Guillaume Chevalier]
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1862. Burty's second state, with shadow emphasized. Etching on wove paper by Jules de Goncourt after a design by Gavarni, signed "Gavarni" in the plate. 2-5/8 x 2-1/4 inches (plate). Fine. Burty's second state, with shadow emphasized. Etching on wove paper by Jules de Goncourt after a design by Gavarni, signed "Gavarni" in the plate. 2-5/8 x 2-1/4 inches (plate). Gavarni's bookplate for Edmund and Jules de Goncourt. The brothers wrote a biography of the artist, Gavarni l'homme et l'œuvre, published in 1873.
"Gavarni himself did a book-plate - one of the most exquisite in existence - for his biographers, Edmond and Jules de Goncourt. It is simply a hand, with two of the fingers, the index and the middle, resting on a sheet of paper which bears the initials of the brothers' christian-names. And indeed, the two great writers were as indissolubly united as two fingers on the same hand. This drawing by Gavarni was admirably etched by Jules de Goncourt, whose abilities as an eau-fortiste were proved by the publication of his engravings" (Octave Uzanne, "French Book-plates," in The Studio, vol. 16, p. 53). Burty, Eaux-fortes de Jules de Goncourt, no. 61; not in Béraldi
"Gavarni himself did a book-plate - one of the most exquisite in existence - for his biographers, Edmond and Jules de Goncourt. It is simply a hand, with two of the fingers, the index and the middle, resting on a sheet of paper which bears the initials of the brothers' christian-names. And indeed, the two great writers were as indissolubly united as two fingers on the same hand. This drawing by Gavarni was admirably etched by Jules de Goncourt, whose abilities as an eau-fortiste were proved by the publication of his engravings" (Octave Uzanne, "French Book-plates," in The Studio, vol. 16, p. 53). Burty, Eaux-fortes de Jules de Goncourt, no. 61; not in Béraldi
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- Format/Binding Etching on wove paper by Jules de Goncourt after a design by Gavarni, signed "Gavarni" in the plate. 2-5/8 x 2-1/4 inches (plate
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- Edition Burty's second state, with shadow emphasized
- Date Published 1862
- Keywords French | French | French | Book-Plates
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Gavarni in London: Sketches of Life and Character, with Illustrated Essays by Popular Writers
by Gavarni, Paul ( Pseudonym of (Hippolyte-Guillaume-Sulpice Chevalier); Edited by Albert Smith
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