Ferdinand BAC

First edition consisting of 26 full-page drawing plates by Ferdinand Bac.
Preface by Marcel Prévost.
Bradel binding in half red cloth with corners, smooth spine, black shagreen title-label, gilt date at foot, gilt fillet frame on marbled paper boards, speckled endpapers and pastedowns, original wrappers preserved, corners slightly bumped, contemporary binding.
First wrapper preserved but tending to come loose, light superficial scuffing to boards without significance.

First edition.
Half red sheep binding, spine decorated with triple gilt fillets showing some scratches, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, speckled edges with some small tears, contemporary binding.
Handsome interior condition despite a tear on the illustrated front page of No. 24 from December 9, 1899.
Le Journal amusant was a French weekly publication created by Charles Philipon on January 5, 1856 in 8 grand-folio pages and disappeared perhaps in December 1933, representing 86 years of publication. The journal consisted three-quarters of illustrations focusing on social satire then comedy of manners with an increasing place given to theater and fashion...

First edition illustrated with numerous unpublished drawings in black and in color by Albert Guillaume, Ferdinand Bac, Albert Robida, Lucien Métivet, Jean-Louis Forain, Théophile Alexandre Steinlen, Job, Charles Léandre, Hermann Paul, Benjamin Rabier, Charles Huard, Henry Gerbault, Abel Faivre, Paul Balluriau...
Publisher’s decorated binding in full cloth, smooth spine decorated with a green floral motif, bevelled boards, the upper cover illustrated by Lucien Métivet showing the masked faces of most of the illustrators of this volume and, above them, a society lady manipulating these caricatures with strings like puppets, endpapers and pastedowns of blue paper slightly discoloured at...

First edition illustrated with 20 original engravings by Ferdinand Bac, one of 30 numbered copies and justified on Japan by Ferdinand Bac , head print.
Binding half blue morocco, back with five nerves very slightly discolored and with slight traces of rubbing, marbled paper plates, gold crest at the head of the first board, marbled paper plates, preserved covers, gilded head, corners blunt, bookbinding the time.
Our copy is incomplete of the test of a rotogravure announced the justification of the draw.

First edition illustrated with 20 original engravings by Ferdinand Bac, one of the rare numbered and justified copies on Japan by Ferdinand Bac , head print.
Binding in half blue morocco, back with five nerves very slightly discolored and with some traces of friction in the head, marbled paper plates, gold emblem at the head of the first board, marbled paper plates, preserved covers, golden head, very blunt lower corners , Contemporary binding.
Preface by Pierre Veber.